36.0.1. An enterprise comprising capital and basic inputs, including at least one immovable used for an agricultural purpose, in a single economic and accounting unit may, in accordance with the terms determined by government regulation, register with the Minister as an agricultural operation.
The main object of registration is to facilitate agricultural operations’ access to measures, programs and services that may be implemented under this Act or under any other Act that is under the Minister’s administration.
A further object of registration is to collect from agricultural operations the information required for the purposes of this Act, including(1) to evaluate and formulate the Government’s agricultural policy;
(2) to analyze and implement policies, programs or projects, to develop, process or validate economic, statistical or financial reference data or to achieve the integrated management of financial interventions; and
(3) to ascertain eligibility or continued eligibility for a benefit or right granted under this Act or under a program.
2020, c. 72020, c. 7, s. 81.