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Bill 193, Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Amendment Act, 2024

Dowie, Andrew

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EXPLANATORY

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The

Bill amends the Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves

Act to add Urban Class Parks as a new class of provincial park, the

objective of which is to improve access to compatible nature-based recreation

in or near urban centres. The Bill also authorizes the Lieutenant Governor in

Counsel to make regulations adding new classes of provincial parks and

specifying objectives for such parks.

Bill 193 2024

Act to amend the Provincial Parks and Conservation Reserves Act, 2006

His

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

(1) Subsection 8 (1) of the Provincial Parks

and Conservation Reserves Act, 2006 is amended by adding the following

paragraphs:

7. Urban

Class Parks.

8. Such

other class of park as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(2) Section

8 of the Act is amended by adding the following subsection:

Objectives:

urban class parks

(8) The

objective of urban class parks is to improve access to compatible nature-based

recreation in or near urban centres.

Subsection 54 (1) of the Act is amended by adding the following clause:

(0.

a) prescribing

classes of parks for the purpose of subsection 8 (1) and specifying the

objectives of each prescribed class;

Commencement

This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Provincial Parks and

Conservation Reserves Amendment Act, 2024 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

May 29, 2024

Second Reading

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on the Interior

May 29, 2024

Second Reading

Vote

Carried

May 29, 2024

Second Reading

Question put

May 29, 2024

Second Reading

Debated

May 7, 2024

First Reading

Ordered for Second Reading

May 7, 2024

First Reading

Vote

Carried

First Reading

May 7, 2024

Carried

Ordered for Second Reading

Second Reading

May 29, 2024

Crawford, Stephen

Oakville

Dowie, Andrew

Windsor—Tecumseh

Hamid, Zee

Milton

McMahon, Mary-Margaret

Beaches—East York

Pinsonneault, Steve

Lambton—Kent—Middlesex

Shaw, Sandy

Hamilton West—Ancaster—Dundas

Question put

Carried

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on the Interior