NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 19/21

Timber Scaling Regulations (Amendment)
under the
Forestry Act

(Filed May 6, 2021)

Under the authority of section 141 of the Forestry Act, I make the following regulations.

Dated at St. John’s, May 5, 2021.

Derrick Bragg
Minister of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture

REGULATIONS

Analysis

           1.    S.2 Amdt.
Definitions

           2.    S.12 Rep.
Expiration of certificate

           3.    S.13 Amdt.
Fees

           4.    S.15 R&S
Renewal of certificate

           5.    S.19 R&S
Payment for scaling

CNLR 987/96
as amended

       1.  (1) Paragraph 2(e) of the Timber Scaling Regulations is amended by deleting the word "ton" and substituting the word "tonne".

           (2)  Paragraph 2(h) of the regulations is amended by deleting the word "ton" and substituting the word "tonne".

           (3)  Section 2 of the regulations is amended by deleting the word "and" at the end of paragraph (g), by deleting the period at the end of paragraph (h) and substituting a semicolon, by adding the word "and" at the end of paragraph (h), and by adding immediately after paragraph (h) the following:

            (i)  "studwood" means trees manufactured into stud lumber up to 3 metres in length.

 

       2.  Section 12 of the regulations is repealed.

 

       3.  Section 13 of the regulations is amended by deleting the word "prescribed" and substituting the word "required". 

 

       4.  Subsection 15 of the regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

Renewal of certificate                     

     15.  (1) The board shall renew a scaler’s certificate where the scaler provides proof satisfactory to the board that the scaler has scaled primary forest products in the 5 year period before expiry of the certificate.

           (2)  Where a scaler has not satisfied the requirement in subsection (1), the board shall refuse to renew the certificate until the scaler has completed a scaling course as approved by the board.

 

       5.  Section 19 of the regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

Payment for scaling

     19.  When timber is scaled for the purpose of payment, the following units of measure apply:

Timber	Unit of Measure
Pulpwood	Cubic metre (stacked), cubic metre (solid) or green tonnes
Studwood	Cubic metre (stacked), cubic metre (solid) or green tonnes
Fuelwood	Cubic metre (stacked), cubic metre (solid) or green tonnes
Sawlogs	Board foot, cubic metre (solid) or green tonnes
Construction timber	Cubic metre (solid) or green tonnes
Tree length	Cubic metre (solid) or green tonnes
Pulp chips	Green tonnes or oven dry tonnes
Biomass (fuel chips)	Green tonnes or oven dry tonnes

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