Powers of Local Board
7. Subject to section 4, the Commission delegates to the local board its powers to make regulations with respect to wheat, (a) providing for the licensing of any or all persons before commencing or continuing to engage in the marketing of wheat; (a.1) providing that the local board may impose such terms and conditions upon a licence as the local board considers proper; (b) prohibiting persons from engaging in the marketing of wheat except under the authority of a licence and except in compliance with the terms and conditions of the licence; (c) providing for the refusal to grant a licence where the applicant is not qualified by experience, financial responsibility and equipment to engage properly in the business for which the application was made; (d) providing for the suspension or revocation of, or the refusal to renew, a licence for failure to observe or perform, or carry out the provisions of the Act, the regulations, the plan or any order or direction of the Commission or local board; (d.1) providing for the imposition, amount, disposition and use of penalties where, after a hearing, the local board is of the opinion that the applicant or licensee has failed to comply with or has contravened any term or condition of a licence or any provision of this Act, the regulations, any plan or any order or direction of the Commission, Director or local board; (e) providing for the fixing of licence fees payable yearly, quarterly or monthly at different amounts or in instalments from any or all persons producing wheat and the collecting of the licence fees and the recovering of such licence fees by suit in a court of competent jurisdiction; (f) requiring any person who receives wheat to deduct from the money payable for the wheat any licence fees payable to the local board by the person from whom the first mentioned person receives the wheat, and to forward such licence fees to the local board; (g) requiring any person who produces and processes wheat to furnish to the local board statements of the amounts of wheat that the person produced in any year and used for processing; (h) prescribing the form of licences; (i) subject to section 3, providing for the exemption from any or all of the regulations, orders or directions under the plan of any class, variety, grade or size of wheat, or any person or class of persons engaged in the producing or marketing of wheat or any class, variety, grade or size of wheat; (j) requiring the furnishing of security or proof of financial responsibility by any person engaged in the marketing of wheat and providing for the administration and disposition of any money or securities so furnished; (j.1) authorizing the fixing of prompt payment discounts, delayed payment penalties and interest on licence fees and service charges owing by any person engaged in the producing, marketing or processing of wheat; (k) providing for the control and regulation of the marketing of wheat, including the times and places at which wheat may be marketed; (l) requiring any person who produces wheat to offer to sell and to sell the wheat to or through the local board; (m) prohibiting any person from processing, packing or packaging any wheat that has not been sold to, by or through the local board; (n) providing for the control and regulation of agreements entered into by producers of wheat with persons engaged in marketing or processing wheat, and the prohibition of any provision or clause in such agreements; and (o) providing for the making of agreements relating to the marketing of wheat by or through the local board and prescribing the forms and terms and conditions of such agreements. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 442, s. 7; O. Reg. 495/01, s. 1 (2-5). Appointment of Agents