First

Session, 49th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2020

BILL 28

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 provide that a timber

scaler's certificate expires 5 years after the date of issuance and that

applications for renewal of a timber scaler's certificate must be made within 3

years of the expiry of the certificate.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FORESTRY ACT

Analysis

S.129 R&S

Renewal of certificate

S.130 R&S

Ineligibility for certificate

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cF-23

as amended

Section 129 of the Forestry Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Renewal of

certificate

(1) A scaler's certificate expires 5 years after the date on

which it was issued.

(2) A person who holds or

has held a scaler's certificate under this

Part is entitled, upon application

to the board and payment of the required fee, to receive a renewal of a scaler's

certificate for a further 5 year term.

Section 130 of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

Ineligibility for

renewal of certificate

130. Where

a person who was issued a scaler's certificate fails to make an application for

a renewal of the certificate within 3 years after the certificate has expired, the

board shall not renew the scaler's certificate.

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