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First Session, 49th General Assembly

69 Elizabeth II, 2020

BILL 28

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 provide that a timber scaler's certificate expires 5 years after the date of issuance and that applications for renewal of a timber scaler's certificate must be made within 3 years of the expiry of the certificate.

 

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FORESTRY ACT

Analysis


        1.   S.129 R&S
Renewal of certificate

        2.   S.130 R&S
Ineligibility for certificate


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

RSNL1990 cF-23
as amended

        1. Section 129 of the Forestry Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Renewal of certificate

   129. (1) A scaler's certificate expires 5 years after the date on which it was issued.

             (2)  A person who holds or has held a scaler's certificate under this Part is entitled, upon application to the board and payment of the required fee, to receive a renewal of a scaler's certificate for a further 5 year term.

        2. Section 130 of the Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Ineligibility for renewal of certificate

   130. Where a person who was issued a scaler's certificate fails to make an application for a renewal of the certificate within 3 years after the certificate has expired, the board shall not renew the scaler's certificate.