Third Session, 44th General Assembly

50 Elizabeth II, 2001

BILL 56

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROVINCIAL PARKS ACT

Received and Read the First Time

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

HONOURABLE KEVIN AYLWARD

Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Provincial Parks Act to authorize the minister responsible for the Act to permit transportation in the Newfoundland T'Railway Provincial Park associated with logging, mining, mineral exploration or hydro-electric development.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROVINCIAL PARKS ACT

Analysis

1. S.5(2) Added

Control and management

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSN1990 cP-32

as amended

Section 5 of the Provincial Parks Act is amended by renumbering it as subsection 5(1) and by adding immediately after that subsection the following:

(2) Notwithstanding subsection 4(5), the minister may permit the use of the Newfoundland T'Railway Provincial Park for the purpose of transportation associated with logging, mining, mineral exploration or hydro-electric development.

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