OIC Number: 2025 - 371

Date of Order: Dec 16, 2025

Statute: Fees Act Fisheries and Coastal Resources Act

OIC Text: The Governor in Council on the report and recommendation of the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture dated November 12, 2025, and upon notice of a fee increase having been presented to the Clerk of the House of Assembly in accordance with

Section 4 of

Chapter 8 of the Acts of 2007, the Fees Act , and pursuant to

Section 64 of

Chapter 25 of the Acts of 1996, the Fisheries and Coastal Resources Act , is pleased, effective on and after December 16, 2025, to: (

a) repeal the Aquaculture Licence and Lease Regulations , N.S. Reg. 347/2015 made by the Governor in Council by Order in Council 2015-338 dated October 26, 2015; and (

b) make new regulations respecting aquaculture licences and leases in the form set forth in

Schedule “A” attached to and forming part of the Report and Recommendation.

Department(s): Fisheries and Aquaculture