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Volume 54, No. 7

B.C. Reg. 70/2011

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

April 19, 2011

B.C. Reg. 70/2011 , deposited April 14, 2011, pursuant to the WILDLIFE ACT [Section 108]. Ministerial Order M97/2011, dated April 8, 2011.

I, Steve Thomson, Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, order that the Hunting Regulation, B.C. Reg. 190/84, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

— S. THOMSON, Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations .

Schedule

Section 16 is amended

(

a) by adding the following subsection:

(3.3) A person commits an offence if the person takes or kills a black bear in M.U. 6-12 or 6-13 in Region 6 (Skeena) unless within 10 days of the date of kill or before exporting it from the Province, whichever first occurs, the person submits the prescribed parts of the animal to an officer for inspection and measurement. ,

(

b) in subsection (4) by striking out " and (3.1) " and substituting ", (3.1) and (3.3) " , and

(

c) in

section 16 (4) (

b) by striking out " grizzly bear " and substituting " grizzly bear, a black bear, ".

Part 1 of

Schedule 6 is amended

(

a) in item 21, in the column entitled Management Units, by striking out " 6-1 to 6-30** " and substituting " 6-1 to 6-11, 6-14 to 6-30** ", and

(

b) by adding the following item, as indicated:

Item

Species

Management

Units

Open Season

Bag Limit

21.1

BLACK BEAR

6-12, 6-13**

Apr. 1 to June 30

Sept. 1 to Nov. 30

Section 18 in

Part 2 of

Schedule 6 is amended

(

a) by renumbering the

section as

section 18 (1), and

(

b) by adding the following subsections:

(2) The open seasons for black bear in M.U.s 6-12 and 6-13 are April 1 to June 30 and September 1 to November 30.

(3) Despite subsection (2), the seasons will close 72 hours after the regional manager has published that 4 black bears have been killed by hunters holding a hunting licence and a species licence for black bear in management units 6-12 and 6-13 combined and the prescribed parts of the bears have been submitted to an officer for inspection and measurement under

section 16 (3.3).

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