Ontario Pork is one of twenty-five marketing boards set up under the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Act. The Act delegates to the Farm Products Marketing Commission (FPMC) the power to set up and supervise marketing boards. The FPMC, in turn, delegates powers to individual marketing boards. The powers delegated to Ontario Pork are outlined in Ontario Regulation 419-1990 and 420-1990, and appropriate amendments.
Regulation 420-1990 governs how the Board is set-up and outlines how Councillors and Directors are to be elected. Regulation 419-1990 outlines the authority given to the Board for such things as controlling the assembling, shipping and transporting of hogs, setting service fees and how hogs are to be marketed.
Ontario Pork must follow these regulations. If a marketing board does not comply, the Farm Products Marketing Commission has the right to limit the powers of the marketing board, to revoke their orders or, in extreme cases, put them in trusteeship or close them down completely.