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82-55
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Revoked on 1 January 2018
NEW BRUNSWICK
REGULATION 82-55
under the
Agricultural Associations Act
(O.C. 82-286)
Filed April 1, 1982
Under section 6 of the
Agricultural Association Act
, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council makes the following Regulation:
Repealed: 2017, c.55, s.2
1
This Regulation may be cited as the
Agricultural Fair Associations Regulation
-
Agricultural Associations Act
.
2
In this Regulation
“Act”
means the
Agricultural Associations Act
.
(loi)
2000, c.26, s.9
3
When fifty or more persons
(
a
)
petition the Lieutenant-Governor in Council for letters patent of incorporation under the Act,
(
b
)
subscribe and pay not less than fifty dollars before the petition is presented to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, and
(
c
)
define the area which the proposed agricultural fair association intends principally to serve,
the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may grant to the persons named in such petition letters patent under the said Act, and the corporate name of such association shall be
..............
4
The petition shall be in Form 1.
5
The petition shall be filed with the Minister who shall present it to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council with such report as he may deem proper.
6
The objects for which an agricultural fair association may be incorporated under the Act shall be to hold an annual agricultural fair in the area specified and to foster correlated promotional projects designed to develop the agriculture of the area.
7
An agricultural fair association incorporated under the Act shall continue to be a corporation and to be entitled to the benefits of the Act and this Regulation only so long as it has a membership of at least fifty and has collected within each financial year of the association the sum of at least fifty dollars in membership subscriptions.
8
Any time it appears to be in the public interest, or when it appears that an association incorporated under the Act is employing powers and privileges conferred upon it by the Act and this Regulation in a manner other than is calculated to promote the interests of agriculture, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may cancel the letters patent of incorporation of the agricultural fair association, but no letters patent shall be cancelled until the grounds of complaint against the association have been communicated to the secretary of the association and the association has had an opportunity to be heard in its own defence, and the Minister has made a full report thereof to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.
9
Every agricultural fair association incorporated under the Act shall file with the Minister, within thirty days following its annual meeting, a copy of its audited annual financial statement together with a list of its officers and members and such other information as the Minister may require.
10
Every agricultural fair association shall, as soon as may be after receiving its letters patent, adopt by-laws relating to
(
a
)
its officers, their election, their duties and the security to be given by them,
(
b
)
the holding of annual and special meetings,
(
c
)
the keeping of accounts,
(
d
)
the holding of exhibitions, and
(
e
)
such other matters as the association deems necessary for its good government and the promotion of its objects,
but the by-laws shall not be inconsistent with the Act or this Regulation as amended from time to time and shall not go into operation without the sanction of the Minister.
11
When an agricultural fair association proposes to hold a fair or similar competitive event at which prizes are to be awarded, the proposed prize list shall be submitted to the Minister for approval or amendment before it is circulated to prospective exhibitors or competitors.
12
The funds of an agricultural fair association shall not be used for any purpose other than those specified in the objects of the association except that a portion may be appropriated to defray the annual dues and expenses of representatives to any district or provincial agricultural promotional organization with which it may become affiliated.
13
The annual membership subscriptions levied upon its members by an association shall be fixed by by-law of the association.
14
Regulation 4, Statutory orders and Regulations, 1963 under the
Agricultural Associations Act
is repealed.
Form 1
N.B.
This Regulation is consolidated to January 1, 2018.
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