Third

Session, 48th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2019

BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FORESTRY ACT

Received

and Read the First Time ................................................................

Second

Reading ............................................................................................

Committee .....................................................................................................

Third

Reading ...............................................................................................

Royal

Assent .................................................................................................

HONOURABLE GERRY

BYRNE

Minister of

Fisheries and Land Resources

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Forestry Act to exempt holders of agricultural

Crown land leases from the requirement to obtain a commercial cutting permit to

clear land where the timber cut is not offered for sale or barter.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FORESTRY ACT

Analysis

S.14.1 Added

Agricultural Crown land leases

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cF-23

as amended

1. The Forestry

Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 14 the following:

Agricultural

Crown land leases

14.1 Notwithstanding

section 14, where an area of Crown lands is leased on the condition that it be

used for an agricultural purpose under

section 3 of the Lands Act , the holder of the lease is not required to obtain a

cutting permit to clear that land provided that the timber cut is not offered

for sale or barter.

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