NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 69/22

Wild Life Regulations (Amendment)
under the
Wild Life Act
(O.C. 2022-205)

(Filed September 8, 2022)

Under the authority of section 7 of the Wild Life Act, the minister, with the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, makes the following regulations.

Dated at St. John’s, September 8, 2022.

Derrick Bragg
Minister of Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture

Krista Quinlan
Clerk of the Executive Council

REGULATIONS

Analysis

        1.   S.2 Amdt.
Definitions

        2.   S.35 Amdt.
Big game

        3.   S.43 R&S
Traps

        4.   S.71 Amdt.
Small game licences

        5.   S.72 Amdt.
Age limit

        6.   S.101.4 Amdt.
Offences

        7.   Commencement

 

CNLR 1156/96
as amended

        1. Paragraph 2(r) of the Wild Life Regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

              (r)  "small game" includes ptarmigan, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse, wild ducks, wild geese, snipe, snowshoe hares, arctic hares, porcupines and red squirrel;

 

        2. (1) Section 35 of the regulations is amended by adding immediately after subsection (1) the following:

         (1.1)  The minister may, upon application by a person who applies for a licence under subsection (1) to take black bear by shooting, issue to that person a trapper's licence to take black bear by trapping.

             (2)  Subsection 35(3) of the regulations is amended by deleting the reference "subsections (1) and (2)" and substituting the reference "subsections (1), (1.1) and (2)".

 

        3. Section 43 of the regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

Traps

      43. (1) A person shall not set or use or cause to be set or used any pitfall, trap or snare for the purpose of taking or killing big game.

             (2)  Notwithstanding subsection (1), a person may hunt, take or kill a black bear by trapping where that person

             (a)  holds

                      (i)  a valid big game licence under this Part to take black bear by shooting, and

                     (ii)  a valid trapper's licence under this Part to take black bear by trapping; or

             (b)  is authorized to do so by the minister or the minister's agent.

 

        4. (1) Paragraph 71(c) of the regulations is amended by deleting the words "rabbits (varying hares)" and substituting the words "snowshoe hares".  

             (2)  Paragraph 71(d) of the regulations is amended by deleting the words "rabbits (varying hares)" and substituting the words "snowshoe hares".

             (3)  Section 71 of the regulations is amended by deleting the word "or" at the end of paragraph (c), deleting the period at the end of paragraph (d) and substituting a semicolon and the word "or" and by adding immediately after that paragraph the following:

             (e)  to take or kill red squirrel by shooting.

 

        5. (1) Subsection 72(1) of the regulations is amended by deleting the word "or" at the end of paragraph (a), deleting the period at the end of paragraph (b) and substituting a semicolon and the word "or" and by adding immediately after that paragraph the following:

             (c)  red squirrel by shooting.

             (2)  Subsection 72(3) of the regulations is amended by deleting the words "rabbits (varying hares)" and substituting the words "snowshoe hares".

 

        6. Paragraph 101.4(3)(b) of the regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

 

             (b)  holding a trapper's licence issued under Part II or Part IV, a big game licence issued under Part IV or a small game licence issued under Part V for 5 years from the date of conviction.

Commencement

        7. Sections 2, 3 and 6 of these regulations come into force on January 1, 2023.

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