3(1)A board is authorized, in relation to the marketing or the production and marketing of the regulated product locally within the Province,
(a)
to fix levies or charges and to impose them on and collect them from persons engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of the whole or any part of the regulated product;
(b)
for the purposes of paragraph (a), to classify the persons referred to in that paragraph into groups and fix the levies or charges payable by the members of the different groups in different amounts; and
(c)
to use the levies or charges under paragraph (a) for the purposes of such board, including
(i)
the creation of reserves,
(ii)
the payment of expenses and losses resulting from the sale or disposal of the regulated product,
(iii)
the equalization or adjustment among persons engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of the regulated product of money realized from the sale of the regulated product during such period or periods of time as the board may determine, and
(iv)
promotion and research activities.
3(2)Any person who receives the regulated product shall deduct from the money payable for the regulated product any levies or charges payable to the board by the person engaged in the marketing or the production and marketing of the regulated product received and forward such levies or charges to the board or its agent designated for that purpose by the fifteenth day of the month following receipt of the regulated product.