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Volume 59, No. 7

95/2016

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

May 3, 2016

B.C. Reg. 95/2016 , deposited April 20, 2016, under the WILDLIFE ACT [sections 16 and 108]. Ministerial Order M133/2016, dated April 20, 2016.

I, Steve Thomson, Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, order that the Limited Entry Hunting Regulation, B.C. Reg. 134/93, is amended as set out in the attached Schedule.

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

Schedule

Section 1 (1) of the Limited Entry Hunting Regulation, B.C. Reg. 134/93, is amended by repealing the

definitions of “group application” , “shared hunt” and “shared hunt application” and substituting the following:

“group application” means a group application referred to in

section 4.2 (1);

“shared limited entry hunting authorization” means a limited entry hunting authorization referred to in

section 4.3 (1) that is shared by a group of persons; .

Section 4 is amended

(

a) in subsection (1) by adding “ a ” before “ limited entry hunting authorization ”, and

(

b) in subsection (5) (

b) by striking out “ provides an authorization to hunt ” and substituting “ relates to ” and by striking out “ for each species authorized to be hunted by the item ” and substituting “ in relation to each of those species ”.

3 Sections 4.2 and 4.3 are repealed and the following substituted:

Group application

4.2

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), applicants for a limited entry hunting authorization in relation to the same item of

Schedule I may elect in their applications to form a group for the purpose of having their applications considered together as a group application.

(2) A group referred to in subsection (1) may not consist of more than 4 applicants.

(3) An election under subsection (1) may not be made in respect of the following species:

(

a) elk in Region 1 or 2;

(

b) moose;

(

c) bison.

Shared limited entry hunting authorization

4.3

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), applicants for a limited entry hunting authorization in relation to the same item of

Schedule I may elect in their applications to form a group for the purpose of sharing a limited entry hunting authorization.

(2) A group referred to in subsection (1) may not consist of more than 4 applicants.

(3) An election under subsection (1) may be made only in relation to the following species:

(

a) moose;

(

b) bison.

Section 4.4 is amended

(

a) in subsection (1) by striking out “ a limited entry hunting authorization for a shared hunt ” and substituting “ a shared limited entry hunting authorization ”,

(

b) in subsection (2) by striking out “ in a shared hunt for the species and type of animal named in a ” and substituting “ under a shared ”,

(

c) in subsection (2) (

b) by adding “ shared limited entry hunting ” before “ authorization ”, and

(

d) by repealing subsections (4) and (5) and substituting the following:

(4) A person who kills an animal under a shared limited entry hunting authorization commits an offence if the person does not report, without delay, to every other member of the group,

(

a) the date and time of the kill, and

(

b) the name and FWID number of the person who killed the animal.

(5) A person who hunts under a shared limited entry hunting authorization commits an offence if the person does not have, for each animal killed under the shared limited entry hunting authorization by the person or another member of the group, a copy of that shared limited entry hunting authorization with an up to date record, in the harvest details part of that copy, of

(

a) the date and time of the kill, and

(

b) the name and FWID number of the person who killed the animal.

5 Sections 6 (1) and 7 (

b) are amended by adding “ limited entry hunting ” before “ authorizations ”.

Section 8 is amended

(

a) in subsection (1) by adding “ limited entry hunting ” before “ authorizations ” in both places, and

(

b) by repealing subsection (2) and substituting the following:

(2) The director must conduct the lottery referred to in

section 7, and must inform the applicants for limited entry hunting authorizations to be distributed under that lottery of the results of that lottery.

Section 8.1 is amended

(

a) in paragraph (

a) of the definition of “initial distribution” in subsection (1) by adding “ limited entry hunting ” before “ authorizations ”,

(

b) by repealing paragraph (

b) of the definition of “previous recipient application” in subsection (1) and substituting the following:

(

b) an application for a shared limited entry hunting authorization in respect of which at least one member of the group among whom the shared limited entry hunting authorization will be shared is a previous recipient; ,

(

c) in subsection (2) (

b) by striking out “ (7) ” and substituting “ (8) ”,

(

d) in subsection (3) (

b) by striking out “ submitted a shared hunt application ” and substituting “ elected under

section 4.3 (1) to share a limited entry hunting authorization ”,

(

e) in subsection (4) by striking out “ authorizations under subsection (2) (b), authorizations ” and substituting “ limited entry hunting authorizations under subsection (2) (b), limited entry hunting authorizations ”,

(

f) in subsection (5) by adding “ limited entry hunting ” before “ authorizations under ” and by striking out “ authorizations must distributed ” and substituting “ limited entry hunting authorizations must be distributed ”,

(

g) in subsection (6) by adding “ limited entry hunting ” before “ authorizations must ” and by striking out “ an authorization ” and substituting “ a limited entry hunting authorization ”, and

(

h) by repealing subsection (7) and substituting the following:

(7) Despite this section, for the purposes of distributing limited entry hunting authorizations under subsection (2) (b),

(

a) if a group application is drawn, limited entry hunting authorizations must be distributed on an all-or-nothing basis as follows:

(

i) if the number of limited entry hunting authorizations remaining available for distribution is equal to or greater than the number of members of the group, a separate limited entry hunting authorization must be distributed to each member;

(ii) if the number of limited entry hunting authorizations remaining available for distribution is less than the number of members of the group, the group application must be removed from the lottery, and

(

b) if an application for a shared limited entry hunting authorization is drawn,

(

i) a shared limited entry hunting authorization must be distributed to the members of the group that is valid for the following number of animals:

(

A) if the number of members of the group is 3 or 4 and at least 2 limited entry hunting authorizations remain available for distribution, 2 animals;

(

B) in any other case, one animal, and

(ii) the applications of the other members of the group must be removed from the lottery.

(8) If a shared limited entry hunting authorization that is valid for 2 animals is distributed in a lottery, the shared limited entry hunting authorization counts as 2 limited entry hunting authorizations for the purpose of determining the number of limited entry hunting authorizations remaining available for distribution.

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