2019 BILL 10

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First Session, 49th General Assembly 68 Elizabeth II, 2019
BILL 10
AN ACT TO AMEND THE FORESTRY ACT
Received and Read the First Time................................................................
Second Reading............................................................................................
Committee.....................................................................................................
Third Reading...............................................................................................
Royal Assent.................................................................................................
HONOURABLE GERRY BYRNE Minister of Fisheries and Land Resources
Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Forestry Act to

· allow more than one person to be named as assistants on a cutting permit for timber for personal consumption; and

· allow the minister to set the maximum number of persons that may be named as assistants on a cutting permit for timber for personal consumption.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FORESTRY ACT

Analysis

1. S.27 Amdt.
Cutting permit

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cF-23
as amended

1. Subsection 27(3) of the Forestry Act is repealed and the following substituted:

(3) A cutting permit shall not be assignable or transferable to another person, but a person to whom a permit is issued to cut timber for his or her personal consumption may obtain the assistance of one or more persons, whose names shall appear on the permit, to assist him or her in cutting the quantity of timber that the permit allows.

(3.1) Notwithstanding subsection (3), the minister may set the maximum number of persons who may provide assistance to a person to whom a permit is issued to cut timber for his or her personal consumption.