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Volume 60, No. 6

135/2017

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

April 11, 2017

B.C. Reg. 135/2017 , deposited April 5, 2017, under the WILDLIFE ACT [section 108 (2)]. Order in Council 178/2017, approved and ordered April 5, 2017.

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

the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that

(

a) the Closed Areas Regulation, B.C. Reg. 76/84, is amended as set out in the

attached Appendix 1, and

(

b) the Designation and Exemption Regulation, B.C. Reg. 168/90, is amended as

set out in the attached Appendix 2.

— S. THOMSON, Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations ; J. RUSTAD, Presiding Member of the Executive Council .

Appendix 1

1 The Closed Areas Regulation, B.C. Reg. 76/84, is amended by adding the following

section:

No shooting areas – specified Crown land

7.1 The areas set out in

Schedule 5.1 are designated as no shooting areas.

2 The following

Schedule is added:

Schedule 5.1

No Shooting Areas – Specified Crown Land

(Section 7.1)

Definition

1 In this Schedule, “spur road” , in relation to a particular road, means the following:

(

a) a road that begins at a junction with the particular road and ends at a point

other than a junction with another road;

(

b) a road that begins at a junction with a spur road of the particular road and

ends at a point other than a junction with another road.

Silver Skagit Forest Service Road

2 That portion of M.U. 2-2 being all Crown land within 400 m of the midline of the

Silver Skagit Forest Service Road from the crossing at Eureka Creek to the boundary

of Skagit Valley Provincial Park.

Little Tamihi West Forest Service Road etc.

3 Those portions of M.U. 2-3 being all Crown land within 400 m of the midline of the

following roads:

(

a) Little Tamihi West Forest Service Road;

(

b) Liumchen Lake Forest Service Road;

(

c) Liumchen West Forest Service Road;

(

d) Tamihi North Forest Service Road.

Chilliwack McGuire and Chilliwack-Tamihi Creek Forest Service Roads

4 Those portions of M.U. 2-3 being all Crown land within 400 m of the midline of the

following roads:

(

a) Chilliwack McGuire Forest Service Road from the junction with the Chilliwack-Tamihi

Creek Forest Service Road to the crossing of an unnamed creek approximately 3 km easterly

along the Chilliwack McGuire Forest Service Road;

(

b) Chilliwack-Tamihi Creek Forest Service Road from the junction with the Liumchen

Creek Forest Service Road to the crossing of Tamihi Creek approximately 6 km southerly

and easterly along the Chilliwack-Tamihi Creek Forest Service Road.

Bench, Foley Creek and Nesakwatch Creek Forest Service Roads

(1) Subject to subsection (2), those portions of M.U. 2-3 being all Crown land within

400 m of the midline of the following roads:

(

a) Bench Forest Service Road;

(

b) Foley Creek Forest Service Road from the junction with the Bench Forest Service

Road to the crossing of an unnamed stream approximately 1 km past a point due South

of the most westerly point of Foley Lake;

(

c) Nesakwatch Creek Forest Service Road from the junction with the Chilliwack

South Forest Service Road to a point 2 km southerly along the Nesakwatch Creek Forest

Service Road.

(2) The areas set out in subsection (1) do not include any areas described in

section 16 of

Schedule 5.

Jones Lake and Jones 10 Forest Service Roads

6 Those portions of M.U. 2-3 being all Crown land within 400 m of the midline of the

following roads, including any spur roads:

(

a) Jones Lake Forest Service Road;

(

b) Jones 10 Forest Service Road.

Florence Lake Forest Service Road

7 That portion of M.U. 2-8 being all Crown land within 400 m of the midline of Florence

Lake Forest Service Road from the northern boundary of the District of Mission northerly

to the terminus of Florence Lake Forest Service Road, including any spur roads.

Lost Creek Forest Service Road etc.

8 Those portions of M.U. 2-8 being all Crown land within 400 m of the midline of the

following roads, including any spur roads:

(

a) Lost Creek Forest Service Road;

(

b) Lost-Blacklock Forest Service Road;

(

c) Lost-Lease Forest Service Road;

(

d) Lost-Murdo Forest Service Road;

(

e) Mount Kettley Forest Service Road;

(

f) Terepocki Forest Service Road.

Hatzic

9 Those portions of M.U. 2-8, in the vicinity of the District of Mission, being all

Crown land within 400 m of the midline of the portions highlighted in red of the roads

on Map No. 5.1-1/17 in

Schedule 15.

Norrish Creek watershed

10 Those portions of M.U. 2-8 being all Crown land within 400 m of the midline of any

road within the Norrish Creek watershed.

Francis Lake, Sts’ailes and Weaver Lake One Forest Service Roads

11 Those portions of M.U. 2-19 being all Crown land within 400 m of the midline of the

following roads:

(

a) Francis Lake Forest Service Road, including any spur roads;

(

b) Sts’ailes Forest Service Road from the junction with the Weaver Lake One Forest

Service Road to the Davidson Creek Bridge;

(

c) Weaver Lake One Forest Service Road, including any spur roads.

Chehalis Forest Service Road

12 That portion of M.U. 2-19 being all Crown land within 400 m of the midline of Chehalis

Forest Service Road from the junction with the Chehalis-Statlu Forest Service Road

to the northern boundary of the area described in

section 33 of

Schedule 5.

Schedule 15 is amended

(

a) by adding “ Map No. 5.1-1/17 ”, and

(

b) by adding the following map:

Map No. 5.1-1/17 .

Appendix 2

1 The Designation and Exemption Regulation, B.C. Reg. 168/90, is amended by adding

the following section:

Exemption from

section 32 of the Act

9.11 A person is exempt from

section 32 of the Wildlife Act in relation to a no shooting area referred to in

Schedule 5.1 of the Closed Areas

Regulation, B.C. Reg. 76/84, if the person discharges a firearm in the no shooting

area for the purpose of hunting or trapping wildlife in accordance with all other

applicable provisions of the Wildlife Act and the regulations under that Act.

Re: B.C. Reg. 135/2017

Pursuant to

section 6 of the Regulations Act , I hereby exempt from publication the map attached to B.C. Reg. 135/2017.

The map may be inspected during regular office hours at the following address:

Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations

4th Floor, 2975 Jutland

Road

Victoria BC V8T 5J9

Email: fishandwildlife@gov.bc.ca

— Rodney W. Fehr , Registrar of Regulations .

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