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Volume 61, No. 14

147/2018

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

July 17, 2018

B.C. Reg. 147/2018 , deposited July 13, 2018, under the AGRICULTURAL LAND COMMISSION ACT [section 58 (2)]. Order in Council 380/2018, approved and ordered July 13, 2018.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with

the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the Agricultural Land

Reserve Use, Subdivision and Procedure Regulation, B.C. Reg. 171/2002, is amended

as set out in the attached Schedule.

— D. DONALDSON, Minister of Agriculture ; R. FLEMING, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Schedule

Section 2 of the Agricultural Land Reserve Use, Subdivision and Procedure Regulation,

B.C. Reg. 171/2002, is amended

(

a) by repealing subsection (2) (p), and

(

b) by adding the following subsection:

(2.5) The lawful production of cannabis is designated as farm use for the purposes of the Act if produced outdoors in a field or inside a structure

(

a) that has a base consisting entirely of soil, or

(

b) that was, before the date on which this

section came into force,

(

i) constructed for the purpose of growing crops inside it, including but not limited to the lawful production of cannabis, or

(ii) under construction for the purpose referred to in subparagraph (i), if that construction

(

A) was being carried out in accordance with all applicable authorizations and enactments, and

(

B) continues without interruption from the date it began to the date the structure is completed, other than work stoppages considered reasonable in the building industry, and

that has not been altered since that date to increase the size of its base or to change the material used as its base.

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