First

Session, 49th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2019

BILL 10

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

FORESTRY ACT

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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

allow more than one person to

be named as assistants on a cutting permit for timber for personal consumption;

and

allow the minister to set the

maximum number of persons that may be named as assistants on a cutting permit

for timber for personal consumption.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FORESTRY ACT

Analysis

S.27 Amdt.

Cutting permit

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cF-23

as amended

1. Subsection 27(3) of the Forestry Act is repealed and the following substituted:

(3) A cutting permit shall not be assignable or

transferable to another person, but a person to whom a permit is issued to cut

timber for his or her personal consumption may obtain the assistance of one or

more persons, whose names shall appear on the permit, to assist him or her in

cutting the quantity of timber that the permit allows.

(3.1) Notwithstanding subsection (3), the minister

may set the maximum number of persons who may provide assistance to a person to

whom a permit is issued to cut timber for his or her personal consumption.

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