jswizzle3737/ontario_laws_and_regs huggingface dataset:
1. In this Regulation, “Board” means The Farm Products Marketing Board constituted under the Farm Products Marketing Act; “commodity board” means The Ontario Flue-Cured Tobacco Growers’ Marketing Board constituted under the Farm Products Marketing Act; “tobacco” means unmanufactured flue-cured tobacco produced in Ontario, including flue-cured tobacco purchased or otherwise acquired by and readied for storage and sale by the commodity board. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 88, s. 1.
2. (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council hereby grants to the commodity board, in relation to the marketing of tobacco locally within Ontario, authority to fix, impose and collect levies or charges from persons engaged in the production of tobacco in Ontario and for that purpose to classify such persons into groups and fix the levies or charges payable by the members of the different groups in different amounts, not exceeding in any case 2 cents per pound of tobacco, and to use the levies or charges for the purposes of the commodity board, including the creation of reserves, the payment of expenses and losses resulting from the sale or disposal of any tobacco, and the equalization or adjustment among producers of tobacco of money realized from the sale thereof during such period or periods of time as the commodity board may determine. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 88, s. 2 (1). (2) No regulation or order made or direction issued by the commodity board under subsection (1) takes effect until it is approved by the Board. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 88, s. 2 (2).
3. The commodity board shall, at any time during normal office hours, make available to such auditor as the Minister of Agriculture and Food may designate, all books of account, records and documents relating to the receipt of funds under this Regulation and expenditures made by the commodity board of money derived in whole or in part from funds received by the commodity board under this Regulation. R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 88, s. 3.