M-36 - Act to promote the development of agricultural operations

Section 5.1 Disposition versions

1986-08-20

5.1. The Minister may, on the recommendation of the Bureau, make a grant not exceeding $15 000 to any farmer or any aspiring farmer who, from 1 July 1986, acquires or leases an economic farm to establish himself thereon and who,

(1)  on the date of his establishment, is not less than eighteen nor more than forty years of age;

(2)  in the case of a farmer, meets, on the date of receipt by the Bureau of his application in writing for a grant, the requirements prescribed by regulation with respect to his farming experience or vocational training;

(3)  has not, as an operator or farmer, already caused an agricultural operations corporation, an agricultural operations partnership, an agricultural operations cooperative or a group of persons contemplated in sections 14 and 15 to be the recipient of all or part of a grant under this Act or a grant referred to in section 2 or 14 of the Act to promote the establishment of young farmers (chapter E-12.1) or has not already been the recipient of one or the other of such grants, or part thereof, or benefited from any of the following measures:

(a)  the remission provided under section 30 of the Farm Credit Act (chapter C-75);

(b)  the advantage provided for under section 4 of the Farm Loan Act (chapter P-20);

(c)  a grant for the consolidation of a farm under section 30 of the Agriculture and Colonization Department Act (Revised Statutes of Québec, 1964, chapter 101), as it read before 22 December 1969;

(d)  a decrease in the annual amount of the rent or of the charge or an exemption of payment of interest pursuant to section 10.1 or 17.1 of the Regulation respecting the arable land bank formed under Division VII of the Act respecting the Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation (R.R.Q., 1981, c. M-14, r. 1).

A grant under this section is made to any farmer or aspiring farmer who applies therefor and who files a grant utilization plan consistent with the regulations, in view of increasing the profitability of his agricultural operation, within the scope of the purposes prescribed by regulation.

Where a grant under this section is made to an aspiring farmer, the aspiring farmer shall, not later than thirty days after the time allotted under the fourth paragraph of section 24, prove to the Bureau that the farm referred to in the first paragraph is profitable and that he meets the requirements prescribed by regulation with respect to his farming experience or vocational training, failing which he forfeits his right to such a grant.

1986, c. 54, s. 3.