Canada Grain Act

Marginal note:Orders of the Governor in Council

115 The Governor in Council may, by order,

• (a) where the Governor in Council considers it necessary in the public interest to do so, require a railway company to supply railway cars for the carriage of grain and place them at any point at which the railway company supplies a service;

• (b) despite anything in this Act, authorize and direct any minister of the Crown or any agency of the Government of Canada to exercise the powers in respect of the allocation of available railway cars contained in any provision of this Act, other than paragraph (a);

• (c) direct that any allocation of railway cars be guided by the principle that the producer or producers should have the right to select such elevator as the producer or producers may choose or to load directly;

• (d) direct that any grade established pursuant to this Act be assigned only to grain being officially inspected on discharge from a terminal elevator or a transfer elevator;

• (e) vary the period of a crop year to another period of not less than three hundred and sixty-five days;

• (f) direct the Commission as to the manner in which any of its operations, powers and duties shall be conducted, exercised or performed; and

• (g) provide for any other matter necessary to give effect to this Act.