NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR REGULATION 87/19

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 87/19

Cutting of Timber Regulations (Amendment)
under the
Forestry Act
(O.C. 2019-284)

(Filed December 5, 2019)

Under the authority of section 38 of the Forestry Act, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council makes the following regulations.

Dated at St. John's, December 4, 2019.

Elizabeth Day
Clerk of the Executive Council

REGULATIONS

Analysis

NLR 1108/96
as amended

1. Paragraph 2(i) of the Cutting of Timber Regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

(i) "domestic cutting permit" means a permit issued under these regulations to cut up to 36 cubic metres stacked of timber for personal use and to give as a gift and not for sale or barter;

2. Subsection 3(2) of the regulations is repealed and the following substituted:

(2) A person shall not cut Crown timber for personal use or to give as a gift without a domestic cutting permit.

(2.1) Notwithstanding section 25, a person shall not offer for sale or barter timber that was cut under a domestic cutting permit and acquired as a gift.

3. Subsection 6(1) of the regulations is amended by deleting the word "or" at the end of subparagraph (b)(ii), deleting the period at the end of paragraph (c) and substituting a semi-colon and the word "or" and by adding immediately after that paragraph the following:

(d) as a gift, by showing documentation from the person who gave the timber confirming that the timber was given as a gift to the person in possession of the timber and containing the following information:

(i) the name and address of the holder of the domestic cutting permit under which the timber was cut,

(ii) the domestic cutting permit number,

(iii) the name of the person who gave the timber as a gift,

(iv) the name of the person in possession of the timber,

(v) the date that the timber was given as a gift, and

(vi) the quantity of the timber.