3. The Government may make regulations(a) to govern the purchase by any trader of pulpwood cut by farmers, or on their land;
(b) to fix the kinds and quantities of such pulpwood that a trader shall purchase within a stated period, having regard to the supplies required for the normal operation of his business during such period;
(c) to determine the methods of measuring such pulpwood, and to ensure that they are carried out;
(d) to fix the price that a trader who purchases such pulpwood must pay.
Such regulations shall have force of law as if they formed part of this Act, from the date of their publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec, unless the Government fixes a later date for such purpose.
Except as regards the methods of measurement, they shall not apply to the sale of pulpwood covered by a joint marketing plan in force in accordance with the Act respecting the marketing of agricultural, food and fish products (chapter M-35.1), but the Government may then, at the request of the Régie des marchés agricoles et alimentaires du Québec, fix the terms of any agreement to be made in the carrying out of such a plan.
R. S. 1964, c. 94, s. 3; 1974, c. 36, s. 125; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1987, c. 84, s. 39; 1990, c. 13, s. 217.