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"Forest Appeals Commission" means the Forest Appeals Commission continued under the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act;
(a) must be for a term not exceeding 3 years,
(b) if it is a licence to cut in the form of a master agreement, must provide that the district manager, or a forest officer authorized by the district manager is to issue, subject to the licence, this Act and the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, cutting permits that authorize the licence holder to harvest Crown timber from specified areas of land within the area or areas of land specified in the licence,
(c) subject to section 104, must require payment of stumpage, and
(d) may include other terms and conditions, consistent with this Act and the regulations and the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, and the regulations and standards made under that Act, determined by the regional manager or district manager or by a forest officer authorized by either of them. , and
28 Section 142 (f) is repealed and the following substituted:
29 Section 143 is amended
30 Section 144 is amended
31 Section 145 is repealed and the following substituted:
32 Section 146 is amended
33 Section 147 is amended
34 Section 148 is repealed and the following substituted:
36 Section 149 is repealed and the following substituted:
37 The following sections are added:
38 Section 150 is repealed and the following substituted:
39 Section 151 (2) is amended
40 Section 163 (a) is amended by striking out "84 (1), (2), (3) or (4), 86 (1), (2) or (4)," and substituting "84 (1), (2), (3), (4) or (6), 86 (1), (2), (3.1) or (4),".
41 Sections 2 (a) and 6 of the Supplement to the Forest Act are repealed.
42 The preamble to the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 159, is amended by repealing paragraph (c) and substituting the following:
43 Section 1 (1) is amended
44 Section 1 is amended
45 Section 2 (1) and (4) to (6) is repealed and the following substituted:
(4) Despite subsections (1) to (3), under the Coal Act, the Geothermal Resources Act, the Mineral Tenure Act or the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act,a person may use or occupy Crown land that is
46 Section 3 is repealed and the following substituted:
47 Section 4 is amended
48 Section 5 is amended
49 Section 6 is amended
(8) The chief forester, for an order made under subsection (1) or (3), and the regional manager for an order made under subsection (2) or (3), must make available to the public the order and a map showing the area to which the objective applies.
51 Section 9 is repealed.
52 The following section is added:
53 Section 10 is repealed and the following substituted:
(c) it must specify, in accordance with the regulations and to the extent required by the regulations,
(i) silvicultural systems and harvesting methods that will be carried out within the cutblocks, and
54 Section 11 is amended
55 Section 12 is amended
56 Section 13 (b) is amended by striking out "approved or given effect under Division 5 of this Part;" and substituting "submitted for the district manager's approval or prepared by the district manager;".
57 Section 14 is repealed.
58 Section 15 is repealed.
59 Section 17 (1) is amended by adding "required by the regulations" after "must carry out the assessments".
60 Section 18 is amended by adding the following subsection:
61 Section 19 is amended by adding the following subsection:
62 The following section is added:
63 Section 20 is repealed.
64 Section 21 is repealed and the following substituted:
65 Section 22 is amended
66 Section 23 (2) is repealed and the following substituted:
67 Section 24 is amended
68 Section 25 is repealed.
69 Section 26 is repealed.
70 Section 27 (3) is repealed and the following substituted:
71 Section 28 is amended
(1.1) Unless the regulations specify otherwise, the district manager may exempt a person referred to in section 19.1 from the requirement for a forest development plan if the district manager determines that any construction, modification, maintenance or deactivation of the roads that will take place does not
(a) require a forest development plan to adequately provide for managing and conserving the forest resources of the area affected by the road, or
(b) affect the public in a material way. , and
(2) Despite subsection (1), if the timber harvesting activity referred to in subsection (1) or the road construction, modification, maintenance or deactivation referred to in subsection (1.1) is in an area referred to in section 41 (6), the district manager may not exempt a person from the requirement for a forest development plan without the approval of a designated environment official.
72 Section 29 is repealed.
73 Section 30 (1) (c) is repealed and the following substituted:
74 Section 35 is amended
75 Section 36 is amended
76 Section 37 (1) is amended by repealing everything after paragraph (b) and substituting the following:
77 Section 38 is amended
78 Section 41 is amended
(c) the district manager is satisfied that the plan or amendment adequately addresses the government's economic objectives for the area, including any economic direction for forest resources, provided in a higher level plan. ,
(6.1) If any part of a forest development plan or amendment requires the joint approval of the district manager and a designated environment official under subsection (6), the district manager
if the portion meets the requirements of subsection (1) and the part of the plan being approved will adequately manage and conserve the forest resources in the area that requires joint approval. , and
(c) the designated environment official is satisfied that the portion adequately addresses the government's economic objectives for the area, including any economic direction for forest resources, provided in a higher level plan.
79 Section 42 is amended
80 Section 43 (1) (c) is repealed and the following substituted:
(c) materially changes the objectives or results of the plan.
81 Section 45 (2) (a) is repealed and the following substituted:
(i) is acting in accordance with an operational plan or a permit issued under this Act or the regulations, or an approval of the district manager under section 48.1, or 71.1, or
82 Section 46 (2) is amended by striking out ", an access management plan,".
83 Section 47 (2) is repealed and the following substituted:
84 The following section is added:
85 Section 49 (1) is repealed and the following substituted:
86 Section 51 (1) (c) is amended by striking out "or excavation;" and substituting ", excavation or constructed livestock trail;".
87 Section 54 is amended
88 Sections 54 (6) (b), 59 (1) and (2), 60 (3), 63 (2), (3) and (6) (a) and 64 (1) (a) are amended by striking out "or access management plan".
89 Section 58 is amended
(B) a silviculture prescription
approved or given effect by the district manager, .
90 Section 62 (1) (d) is repealed and the following substituted:
91 Section 63 (6) is amended by striking out "any forest development plan or access management plan," and substituting "any forest development plan,".
92 Section 64 is amended
93 Section 67 (2) is amended
94 Section 68 is amended
95 Section 70 is amended
96 Section 71 (4) is amended by adding "the Silviculture Payments Sub-account of" after "must be paid into".
97 The following section is added:
98 Section 72 is amended
99 Section 78 is amended by renumbering the section as section 78 (1) and by adding the following subsection:
100 Section 96 is repealed and the following substituted:
(f) by the regulations, in the course of fire control or suppression operations,
(ii) undo a silviculture prescription for a backlog area or a stand management prescription, or
(iii) authorized under section 48.1, 64 (1.1) or 71.1.
101 Section 101 is amended
(a) in subsection (1) (b) by adding "removing," after "maintaining,", and
(a) require a person seeking consent under section (1) to submit the matter for which consent is sought to a review in accordance with the regulations, and for comments by interested parties during the course of the review,
(c) impose requirements, that the district manager considers necessary or desirable, to be met by the person seeking the consent as a condition of obtaining or retaining the consent, including, but not limited to, requiring that the person provide security in a form and manner specified by the district manager.
(1.2) A person who obtains consent under subsection (1) must comply with any conditions imposed under subsection (1.1) in respect of the consent.
102 Section 106 (1) is amended by striking out "to an extent that the objectives specified in higher level plans for the area cannot be met".
103 Section 109 (a) is amended by striking out everything after "or the regulations" and substituting "or the Forest Act or the Range Act or the regulations under either Act."
104 Section 109 (b) is repealed.
105 The following sections are added to Division 3 of Part 6:
106 Section 117 is repealed and the following substituted:
(a) previous contraventions of a similar nature contained in the person's performance record under section 117.3 (1);
(a) any decision of a reviewer, on a review, or of the Forest Appeals Commission, on an appeal, if the reviewer or the commission, as the case may be, confirms, varies or rescinds
(b) any decision of a reviewer under section 129 (5) (c), concerning a failure to make a determination, or of the Forest Appeals Commission on an appeal of a decision made by a reviewer under section 129 (5) (c), if
(i) a decision of the Forest Appeals Commission referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b), or
107 Section 118 is amended
108 Section 119 is repealed.
109 Section 122 (1) and (2) is repealed and the following substituted:
110 Section 123 is amended by adding the following subsection:
111 The following section is added to Division 4 of Part 6:
112 Section 126 (2) is amended by striking out "117 (1), 118 (4) or (5) or 119," and substituting "116.3 (1), 117 (1) or 118 (3) (d),".
113 Section 127 is amended
114 Section 128 is amended
115 Sections 129 to 131 are repealed and the following substituted:
may appeal the determination to the Forest Appeals Commission.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), the board may appeal to the Forest Appeals Commission
116 Section 138 is repealed and the following substituted:
117 Section 139 is amended by adding the following subsection:
118 Section 141 is repealed and the following substituted:
119 Section 143 is amended
120 Section 151 is amended by adding "96 or" after "prosecution under section".
121 Section 154 is amended by striking out "commits an offence who" and substituting "contravenes the Act who".
122 Section 157 (1) is amended by striking out everything after "agent or contractor".
123 Section 174 is amended by adding the following subsection:
124 Section 194 (1) is repealed and the following substituted:
125 Section 208 (2) is amended
126 The following sections are added:
127 Section 218 (2) is repealed and the following substituted:
128 Section 220 (2) is amended
129 Sections 224 (7) and 229 are repealed.
130 Section 230 is amended
131 Section 231 is amended by striking out "sections 20 and 21," and substituting "section 21,".
247 (1) Subject to subsection (2), if a silviculture prescription is approved or put into effect by the district manager before the date this section comes into force, the silviculture prescription remains in effect until a free growing stand is produced on the area under the silviculture prescription.
(2) The law respecting the content of silviculture prescriptions, as it was immediately before the date this section comes into force, continues to apply to a silviculture prescription approved or given effect by the district manager before the date this section comes into force.
(vi) reducing windthrow potential by topping or pruning.
(4.1) A forest development plan prepared by the district manager under this section must identify the location of the following existing and proposed roads:
(4.2) If the holder of a timber sale licence, that is not a major licence, and provides for cutting permits, prepares a forest development plan, the plan must identify the location of the following existing and proposed roads:
(1.2) A forest development plan prepared by the holder of a major licence or woodlot licence must identify the location of
142 Section 62 (1) (d) of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 159 as amended by the Forests Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, is amended by striking out "access management plan,".
143 Section 143 (2) of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 159 as amended by the Forests Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, is amended by striking out "64 (1), (2), (3), (5) or (12), 67, 68, 70 (3), 76 (1)" and substituting "64 (1), (1.1), (2), (3), (5) or (12), 67, 68, 70 (3) or (3.1) (a), 76 (1)".
144 Section 143 (3) of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 159 as amended by the Forests Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, is amended
145 Section 143 (4) of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 159 as amended by the Forests Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, is amended by adding "64 (5.1)," after "61 (1),".
146 Section 1 of the Range Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 396, is amended
147 Section 14 is amended
148 Section 31 is amended by striking out "regional manager or" wherever it appears.
149 Sections 32 and 38 are amended by striking out "regional manager or".
150 Section 34 is amended by striking out "The regional manager, district manager or a forest officer authorized by either of them" and substituting "The district manager or a forest officer authorized by the district manager".
151 Section 41 is amended
152 Section 43 is repealed and the following substituted:
153 Section 5 (1) and (2) of the Special Accounts Appropriation and Control Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 436, is repealed and the following substituted:
(b) under section 117.2 of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act and earnings calculated and attributable to those amounts form a sub- account, called the Environmental Remediation Sub-account.
154 (1) Section 56 (5) of the Forest Act does not apply, and is conclusively deemed not to have applied since the beginning of the day on January 30, 1996, to the change in control of Evans Forest Products Limited referred to in the consent of the Minister of Forests given under section 54 of the Forest Act and dated January 30, 1996.
155 (1) Sections 29 to 38, 39 (b) and (c), 112 to 119, 125, 126 and 129 of this Act apply to reviews and appeals of orders, determinations and decisions under the Forest Act, the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act and the Range Act, except as set out in this section.
156 If an agreement provides for cutting permits to be issued by the district manager and the agreement is in effect on the coming into force of this section, the cutting permit may be issued by the district manager or a forest officer authorized by the district manager.
157 (1) If a senior official makes a determination under section 116.2 (1) of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act that, before the coming into force of this section, a person contravened the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act or the regulations under that Act,
(c) sections 116.2, 116.4 and 117.1 to 117.3 of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act,as enacted by the Forests Statutes Amendment Act, 1997, apply to the contravention.
158 (1) The following come into force by regulation of the Lieutenant Governor in Council:
(b) sections 2, 10, 18 to 20, 26 to 39, 43 (a), (d) to (g), (l) and (n), 44, 45 to 48, 49 (b), 50, 53, 54 (a), 55, 56, 62 to 64, 65 (c) and (d), 66, 67, 71, 72, 76, 78, 80, 81, 83 to 85, 90, 92, 93 (a), 94 (b) and (c), 95 (d) and (e), 96 to 98, 100, 105 to 118, 119 (a), 123 to 128 and 131;
(c) that part of section 136 enacting Division 8 of Part 11;
(d) sections 138 (b), 139, 142, 143, 144 (a) and (c), 145, 146, 147 (b), 151 (d) and (e), 153, 155 and 157.
(2) Sections 43 (k), 57, 68 and that part of section 132 that repeals sections 232 (4), 233 (3), 234 (3) and 235 of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act are deemed to have come into force the beginning of June 15, 1995 and are retroactive to the extent necessary to give them effect on and after that date.
(3) Section 130 is deemed to have come into force on April 21, 1997 and is retroactive to the extent necessary to give it effect on and after that date.
(4) Sections 129 and 133 are deemed to have come into force immediately before June 15, 1997 and are retroactive to the extent necessary to give them effect on and after that date.
(5) Sections 119 (d), 135 and that part of section 136 enacting Division 9 of Part 11, are deemed to have come into force on June 15, 1997 and are retroactive to the extent necessary to give them effect on and after that date.
(a) sections 22 (a), 23 to 25, 58, 69, 79 (a), 82, 88, 89 (a), 91 and 132;
(d) sections 138 (a), 140, 141 and 144 (b).
SECTION 1: [Forest Act, amends section 1 (1)] adds references to forest licences and timber sale licences granted under sections 13 (1.1) and 23 (1) (f) of the Act, respectively, being added by this Bill, and adds 4 definitions.
SECTION 2: [Forest Act, adds section 13 (1.1)] allows the minister to restrict eligibility for forest licences under section 13 of the Act to persons in one or more prescribed categories of small business forest enterprises.
SECTION 3: [Forest Act, amends sections 14 (e), 22 (d), 30 (e), 35 (1) (f) and 45 (e)] streamlines tenure administration by requiring forest licences, timber sale licences, tree farm licences and woodlot licences to provide for cutting permits to be issued either by the district manager or by a forest officer authorized by the district manager.
SECTION 4: [Forest Act, amends section 23]
makes the section consistent with sections 72 and 73;
uses less restrictive language;
allows the ministry, in conjunction with a major works contract related to the small business forest enterprise program, to directly award a timber sale licence to remove timber;
allows the ministry to directly award a timber sale licence to a person carrying out specified activities under the Forest Practices Code;
increases the volume in subsection (3) from 300 m3 to 500 m3 and removes an outdated stumpage monetary value limitation.
SECTION 5: [Forest Act, enacts section 35.1] gives a discretion to the chief forester to determine, in accordance with this new provision, whether management plans for tree farm licences satisfactorily provide for inventories of forest, recreation and cultural heritage resources of the tree farm licence areas and to require the holders of the licences to compile and submit adequate inventories.
SECTION 6: [Forest Act, amends section 44] eliminates the inclusion of leased land held by an applicant for a woodlot licence as part of the private land holdings required under the Act in order to qualify the applicant to receive a woodlot licence.
SECTION 7: [Forest Act, amends section 49] substitutes, in place of the present right of appeal to the regional manager, a right to a review by the regional manager of a decision respecting a free use permit, for consistency with recent amendments respecting reviews and appeals.
SECTION 8: [Forest Act, amends section 51] allows the issuance of a licence to cut in the form of a master agreement, for example, to an oil and gas company, with the master agreement applicable to an entire forest district.
SECTION 9: [Forest Act, amends section 56 (11)] provides discretion to the minister to waive the requirements of section 56 (5), to facilitate economic plans under the Job Protection Act.
SECTION 10: [Forest Act, amends section 67 (3)] adds references to section 13, consequential to the addition by this Bill of section 13 (1.1) of the Act.
SECTION 11: [Forest Act, amends section 78] provides an alternative to indefinite suspension from registration as a small business forest enterprise in the form of disqualification for a specified period and provides for conditional reinstatement.
SECTION 12: [Forest Act, amends section 81]
adds new subsections (5) and (6) that allow the ministry to refuse to issue an agreement or permit to an applicant or a person not at arm's length to an applicant if the applicant owes stumpage or other amounts payable to the government;
makes consequential changes to subsections (1) to (3) to move these grounds of refusal to the new subsections (5) and (6);
makes changes to improve the language of subsections (1) to (3).
SECTION 13: [Forest Act, amends section 84] adds a reference to transporting timber and also imposes on certain persons the duty to ensure compliance with the conditions attached to an exemption from timber marking requirements.
SECTION 14: [Forest Act, amends section 86] adds a reference to transporting scaled timber and a new requirement respecting the location a scaled timber brand can be applied at and also imposes on certain persons the duty to ensure compliance with the conditions attached to an exemption from scaled timber brand requirements.
SECTION 15: [Forest Act, amends section 87] provides for suspension, and the opportunity to be heard before cancellation, of a certificate and scaled timber brand, and provides that both the regional manager and the district manager will be able to suspend and cancel the certificate and brand.
SECTION 16: [Forest Act, amends section 95] expands the grounds on which a regional manager or district manager may refuse to issue a scale site authorization to an applicant and the grounds on which a regional manager or district manager may suspend or cancel a scale site authorization.
SECTION 17: [Forest Act, adds section 96 (3)] makes a licensee responsible for the complete and accurate scale of Crown timber and the land owner similarly responsible when the timber is from private land.
SECTION 18: [Forest Act, amends section 97 (4)] subordinates section 97 (4) of the Act to section 99 (5) of the Act that is being added by this Bill.
SECTION 19: [Forest Act, re-enacts section 98] simplifies section 98 of the Act by removing the references to a prescribed scaling fee and by omitting as unnecessary the chief forester's discretion to specify the manner of doing things. Subsection (3) is new and relieves a person from the requirement to pay charges, costs and expenses that total less than a prescribed amount.
SECTION 20: [Forest Act, amends section 99] adds references to the volume or value of the timber to allow a second scale to replace the first scale based on a difference in value, broadens the application of the section to include second check scales of timber and makes housekeeping changes.
SECTION 21: [Forest Act, amends section 105 (1)] provides for rates of stumpage to be determined, redetermined and varied by a person authorized by the minister.
SECTION 22: [Forest Act, amends section 109 (3)] adds a reference to section 22 (1.1) of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act,that is added by this Bill.
SECTION 23: [Forest Act, re-enacts section 114] repeals the definition of "access management plan" and is consequential to phasing out the use of such plans.
SECTION 24: [Forest Act, amends section 115] removes references to access management plans.
SECTION 25: [Forest Act, amends section 117 (2) (e)] removes a reference to an access management plan.
SECTION 26: [Forest Act, repeals and replaces section 118 (b)] broadens the scope of what is to be authorized under a road permit.
SECTION 27: [Forest Act, amends section 120 (10)] specifies the Forest Appeals Commission as the appeal body for an appeal as to the location of a right of way across private land.
SECTION 28: [Forest Act, repeals and replaces section 142 (f)] in the provision that extends statutory immunity to persons acting in their official capacity, adds a reference to the Forest Appeals Commission and to mediators and arbitrators acting under the regulations.
SECTION 29: [Forest Act, amends section 143] in the provision relating to determinations under the Act that may be reviewed, in paragraphs (a) and (b), eliminates references to woodlot licences and adds a reference to a decision under section 53 (1) of the Act, and in paragraph (c), adds a reference to a determination of stumpage rate under section 105, as a consequential amendment to the amendment made by this Bill to that section.
SECTION 30: [Forest Act, amends section 144] makes a housekeeping change for consistency with the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act and adds the ability to make regulations that require disclosure of facts and law relating to a review.
SECTION 31: [Forest Act, re-enacts section 145] makes minor amendments to the provision setting out powers of persons conducting reviews under the Act, for harmonization with the corresponding provisions of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act.
SECTION 32: [Forest Act, amends section 146] eliminates the right of a tree farm licence holder to appeal to the Forest Appeals Commission the chief forester's determination of the allowable annual cut, so that the licensee's method for challenging such a determination will be through judicial review in the Supreme Court. This amendment also substitutes specific references to the Forest Appeals Commission and corrects cross references.
SECTION 33: [Forest Act, amends section 147] furthers harmonization of the Forest Act appeal provisions with the corresponding provisions of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act and adds the ability to make regulations that require disclosure of facts and law relating to an appeal.
SECTION 34: [Forest Act, re-enacts section 148] furthers harmonization with the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act.
SECTION 35: [Forest Act, enacts sections 148.1 to 148.6] furthers harmonization with the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act.
SECTION 36: [Forest Act, re-enacts section 149] furthers harmonization with the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act.
SECTION 37: [Forest Act, enacts sections 149.1 and 149.2] furthers harmonization with the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act.
SECTION 38: [Forest Act, re-enacts section 150] furthers harmonization with the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act.
SECTION 39: [Forest Act, amends section 151 (2)] amends the regulation enabling section of the Act to expand the regulation making power relating to when deposits may be required and realized on and makes changes that are consequential to other amendments made by this Bill.
SECTION 40: [Forest Act, amends section 163 (a)] amends the offence section of the Act and is consequential to other amendments made by this Bill.
SECTION 41: [Supplement to the Forest Act, repeals sections 2 (a) and 6] eliminates provisions in the Supplement that are inconsistent with amendments made by this Bill.
SECTION 42: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends the preamble] adds references to "economic" values and "social" needs.
SECTION 43: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 1 (1)] amends the definition section of the Act to:
recognize that the commission is continued;
refer to a cutting permit under a "master licence to cut" in the definition of "cutblock";
make housekeeping changes arising out of a reorganization of government;
refer more specifically in the definition of "determination" to refer to a "reviewer";
in the definition of "forest practice" by adding a reference to activities to be carried out by Forest Renewal BC;
add definitions of "master licence to cut", "minor salvage operation" and "reviewer";
amend the definitions of "official plan", "net area to be reforested" and "permanent access structure", and to expand the definition of "range development".
SECTION 44: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 1] is consequential to the amendments made by this Bill and defines "consistent".
SECTION 45: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals and replaces section 2 (1) and (4) to (6)] amends the provision that sets out allowable uses of private land in a tree farm licence and of Crown land in a Provincial forest, so that the provision will apply to all Crown land covered in a woodlot licence or Range Act agreement and provides that Ministry of Employment and Investment tenure holders are not affected by the expansion of the land base. Adding the reference to "related purposes" will allow special use permits to be issued for all activities related to range use.
SECTION 46: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, re-enacts section 3]
transfers the authority to establish resource management areas from chief forester "ministers" who, by definition are of Forests, Environment, Lands and Parks, Employment Investment;
omits the provision that made the establishment of these areas (by the chief forester) subject to the regulations and to directives of the Lieutenant Governor in Council or the ministers;
adds a transition subsection that deems existing higher level plans to be higher level plans.
SECTION 47: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 4] removes the requirement, in the "Landscape units and objectives" provision of the Act, that the district manager must obtain the approval of the Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks before establishing, on land subject to an interest granted under the Land Act, a landscape unit, and provides that an order under this section of the Act may be filed more than 6 months after it is made.
SECTION 48: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 5] removes the requirement, in the "sensitive areas" provision of the Act, that the district manager must obtain the approval of the Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks before establishing, on land subject to an interest granted under the Land Act, a sensitive area, and provides that an order under this section of the Act may be filed more than 6 months after it is made.
SECTION 49: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 6]
provides that the chief forester need not obtain the consent of the holder of a master licence to cut before establishing, varying or cancelling an interpretive forest site, recreation site or recreation trail, and requires that consent be obtained from the holder of a special use permit;
provides that an objective may take effect on a date specified in the order.
SECTION 50: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, enacts section 7.1] provides for establishment, as a higher level plan, of objectives contained in a license's management plan.
SECTION 51: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals section 9]
section 9 (1) of the Act deals with conflicts between objectives under a management plan and those set by or under the Act. It is repealed because the Forest Act already addresses this;
section 9 (2) to (5) deals with resource inventories and is repealed because it has been moved to the Forest Act.
SECTION 52: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, enacts section 9.1] requires a higher level plan to contain a transition statement if any provision in the plan will not be implemented when the plan is established.
SECTION 53: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, re-enacts section 10] amends the provision
in subsection (1) by adding "to the extent required by the regulations to paragraph (c),
by clarifying that it is the approximate location of roads that must be shown, and by requiring a forest development plan to be consistent with higher level plans and enactments in effect 4 months before the date the plan is submitted for the district manager's approval or given effect by the district manager;
in subsection (2) by providing an exception to subsection (1) (d);
in subsection (3) by providing an exception for certain content requirements for operations relating to minor salvage operations;
in subsection (4) by providing an exception for certain content requirements for operations related to some Forest Renewal BC activities.
SECTION 54: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 11] amends the provision respecting the content of logging plans to strike out a reference to a silviculture prescription consequential to amendment to section 21 of the Act that does away with logging plans except when required for road permits and licences to cut - neither of which have a silviculture prescription and to provide that a logging plan must be consistent with higher level plans and legislation in effect before the plan is submitted for the district manager's approval.
SECTION 55: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 12] provides for a results based silviculture prescription, and provides that a silviculture prescription must be consistent at the date of its submission for approval or when the district manager puts it into effect with a forest development plan or higher level plan, and meet with requirements of legislation, in effect 4 months before the date it is submitted or given effect and provides that a backlog silviculture prescription must be consistent with higher level plans and legislation in effect 4 months before the plan is submitted or prepared.
SECTION 56: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 13 (b)] provides that a backlog silviculture prescription must be consistent with higher level plans and legislation in effect before the plan is submitted or prepared.
SECTION 57: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals section 14] repeals the provision that sets out the content requirements for a 5 year silviculture plan.
SECTION 58: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals section 15] repeals the provision that sets out the content requirements for an access management plan.
SECTION 59: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 17 (1)] clarifies that only assessments required by the regulations must be carried out.
SECTION 60: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, adds section 18 (3.1)] is consequential to the re-enactment of section 10 of the Act.
SECTION 61: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, adds section 19 (1.1)] is consequential to the re-enactment of section 10 of the Act.
SECTION 62: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, enacts section 19.1] provides for forest development plans for a person who intends to carry out Forest Renewal BC funded road activities.
SECTION 63: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals section 20] repeals a requirement for a logging plan for the holder of a timber sale licence that is not a major licence.
SECTION 64: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia, re-enacts section 21] authorizes a district manager to require a logging plan of some holders of road permits or a holder of a licence to cut or cutting permit under a master licence to cut.
SECTION 65: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 22]
provides limited circumstances in which a holder of a small business timber sale licence may be required to prepare a silviculture prescription;
removes the requirement for the holder of a woodlot licence to prepare a silviculture prescription as this site level planning requirement will be addressed in a regulation specific to woodlot licences.
SECTION 66: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals and replaces section 23 (2)] provides that a person who is required by their licence, or who intends to carry out a backlog silviculture activity under a funding agreement with Forest Renewal BC, must prepare a silviculture prescription.
SECTION 67: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 24] provides
that a person who is required by their licence, or who intends to carry out a silviculture activity on a free growing stand under a funding agreement with Forest Renewal BC, must prepare a stand management prescription;
that a single stand management prescription may cover more than one distinct treatment area.
SECTION 68: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals section 25] repeals the requirement for 5 year silviculture plans.
SECTION 69: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals section 26] repeals the requirement for an access management plan.
SECTION 70: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals and replaces section 27 (3)] requires information to be supplied to enable a district manager to prepare a range use plan.
SECTION 71: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 28] specifies the limited circumstances in which the district manager may exempt a person who is required to have a forest development plan for carrying out road activities under agreements with Forest Renewal BC from having to prepare a plan and when the approval of a designated environment official is required.
SECTION 72: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals section 29] repeals the power to exempt from the requirement to have a logging plan.
SECTION 73: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals and replaces section 30 (1) (c)] replaces "imminent danger of being damaged" with "danger of being significantly reduced in value, lost or destroyed".
SECTION 74: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 35] provides that, if an operational plan has to be amended or replaced, work must stop only on the parts of the forest operational plan that are affected by the amendment or replacement.
SECTION 75: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 36] provides that, if a silviculture prescription must be amended or replaced, operations must stop on only the affected parts of the areas covered by the prescription.
SECTION 76: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 37 (1)] authorizes the district manager to take action authorized by regulation if the holder of a woodlot licence has not been issued a cutting permit within 3 years of acquiring approval of a silviculture prescription.
SECTION 77: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 38] adds a reference to section 22 (1.1) and makes a change to take into account that the district manager may approve silviculture prescriptions, as well as prepare them.
SECTION 78: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 41] adds an economic test for the approval of operational plans and authorizes the district manager to approve the portion of a forest development plan that is not subject to joint approval with a designated environment official.
SECTION 79: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 42] removes a reference to access management plans and modifies the circumstances that must exit before the district manager may give immediate approval to a logging plan or amendment or to a silviculture prescription or amendment.
SECTION 80: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals and replaces section 43 (1) (c)] provides that public review and comment is necessary when the objectives or results of a plan are materially changed.
SECTION 81: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals and replaces section 45 (2) (a)] subject to the rest of section 45 of the Act, specifies that a person does not damage the environment if
an activity is carried out in accordance with an operational plan, or
the silviculture treatment is on a stocked but not yet free growing stand, and has been approved by the district manager under section 48.1, 64 (1.1) or 71.1 of the Act.
SECTION 82: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 46 (2)] is consequential to the repeal of the requirement for access management plans.
SECTION 83: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals and replaces section 47 (2)] deletes 2 references to a logging plan and clarifies that amount by which the limit for soil disturbance can be exceeded is limited to the area occupied by temporary access structures where a silviculture prescription requires soil rehabilitation.
SECTION 84: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, enacts section 48.1] requires gully and landslide rehabilitation treatments carried out by government or to be consistent with higher level plans and to adequately manage and conserve the forest resources and requires surveys and reports in accordance with the regulations.
SECTION 85: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals and replaces section 49 (1)] deletes a reference to logging plans consequential to the elimination, in all but exceptional circumstances, of logging plans.
SECTION 86: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 51 (1) (c)] adds a reference to a constructed livestock trail.
SECTION 87: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 54]
provides exceptions to the prohibition against using, without a permit, a road on Crown land for timber harvesting;
eliminates a discretion to exempt a type of load from the prohibition;
adds a discretion to make exemptions under the section subject to conditions.
SECTION 88: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends sections 54, 59, 60, 63 and 64] is consequential to the repeal of the requirement for access management plans.
SECTION 89: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 58]
eliminates references to access management plans because of the repeal of the requirement for such plans;
adds a reference to silviculture prescriptions consequential to logging plans no longer being required;
adds a requirement that a cutting permit, or timber sale licence without a cutting permit, authorize the road construction or modification.
SECTION 90: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals and replaces section 62 (1) (d)] is consequential to logging plans no longer being required.
SECTION 91: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 63 (6)] is consequential to the repeal of the requirement for access management plans.
SECTION 92: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 64] provides that when person carries out road deactivation activities under an agreement with Forest Renewal BC,
the person must deactivate the roads in accordance with the specified requirements, including a road deactivation prescription, and
if the deactivation is of a temporary nature, the district manager may exempt the person from having to prepare the road deactivation prescription.
SECTION 93: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 67 (2)] repeals paragraph (b), of the Act consequential to making a silviculture prescription results oriented, and clarifies that paragraph (c) (i) of the Act does not apply to areas with a silviculture prescription so that in an area subject to a silviculture prescription it is that prescription not this provision that will set the limit on excavated and bladed trails.
SECTION 94: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 68] specifies that a woodlot licence holder may construct an excavated or bladed trail if authorized by the site plan on regulations (including any planning requirements) and in accordance with the regulations.
SECTION 95: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 70]
makes necessary changes to definitions to reflect earlier changes in planning requirements for silviculture prescriptions;
specifies that a person who is carrying out silviculture activities on backlog areas under an agreement with Forest Renewal BC must produce a free growing stand unless the agreement ends, in which case the government will produce the free growing stand at the expense of Forest Renewal BC.
SECTION 96: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 71 (4)] requires payment into a new sub-account of the Forest Stand Management Fund special account consequential to the new section 117.2 of the Act, added by this Bill.
SECTION 97: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, enacts section 71.1] provides that a holder of a major licence or woodlot licence acting for Forest Renewal BC and the government may carry out silviculture treatments on areas that were harvested, damaged or destroyed before October 1, 1987, and that are currently restocked but not yet free growing, if the treatment is consistent with higher level plans and adequately manages and conserves the forest resources.
SECTION 98: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 72] provides that a person who carries out a silviculture treatment under an agreement with Forest Renewal BC on free growing stands must carry out the treatment in accordance with the stand management prescription, the Act and the regulations.
SECTION 99: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, renumbers section 78 and adds section 78 (2)] requires compliance with a notice or order made under this section of the Act.
SECTION 100: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, re-enacts section 96] changes section 96 of the Act by
clarifying the difference between cutting, damaging or destroying Crown timber on site from and removing the timber from that site;
expanding the exceptions to the prohibition against cutting, damaging or destroying Crown timber.
SECTION 101: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 101] requires consent before a range development can be removed; authorizes the district manager to require review of an application for consent and provides for conditions that can be attached to the consent.
SECTION 102: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 106 (1)] deletes the precondition for the exercise of authority under this section by striking out reference to the objectives in a higher level plan.
SECTION 103: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 109 (a)] broadens the power of an official to stop a person who is operating a vehicle or vessel to include a person who contravenes any provision of the Act or regulations on the Forest Act or the Range Act or their regulations.
SECTION 104: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals section 109 (b)] removes a paragraph that is redundant.
SECTION 105: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, enacts sections 116.1 to 116.4]
provides definitions that are used for the purposes of the administrative remedy provisions;
provides that a senior official may make a determination that a person has contravened a requirement of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act or its regulations and makes specified persons vicariously liable;
enables the senior official to levy a penalty against the person who contravened the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act to
cover any costs incurred by the government,
compensate the government for lost value,
address any loss in ability to adequately manage and conserve the forest resources, and
remove any economic benefit obtained from the contravention;
requires the senior official, with respect to contraventions by specified groups, to determine whether or not the person exercised all due diligence to prevent the contravention.
SECTION 106: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, re-enacts section 117 and enacts sections 117.1 to 117.3]
enables the senior official, in accordance with the Act, the regulations and any policies established by the minister, to levy a penalty against a person who did not exercise due diligence to prevent the contravention;
requires that a person who is the subject of a contravention determination (section 116.2) and penalty (section 116.3) or a performance evaluation determination (section 116.4) and a penalty (section 117), must be provided notice of the determinations and penalties and be notified of the person's rights to request an administrative review;
provides that all amounts payable from penalties go into a special account that may be used for rehabilitation work undertaken by the government;
provides that the government
keep and make available to the public, a performance record with respect to specified persons showing if the person did not exercise all due diligence to prevent a contravention and if the person was convicted;
clarifies the amount of any penalty associated with a failure to carry out remedial silviculture work and the method for recovery of all costs associated with remedial work carried out by the government.
SECTION 107: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 118] amends section 118 of the Act to provide that
licensees are responsible for remedying the contraventions of not only their employees and contractors, but also their subcontractors;
allows remediation costs to be recovered as a debt due the government;
replaces the current penalties in section 18 (4) and (5) of the Act;
clarifies the grounds for realizing on security.
SECTION 108: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals section 119] is consequential to the section having been incorporated into sections 116.1 to 117.1
SECTION 109: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals and replaces section 122 (1) and (2)] amends section 122 (1) and (2) consequential to the new sections 116.3 (1), 117 (1) and 118 (3) (d) added by this Bill.
SECTION 110: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, adds section 123 (4)] provides limited authority for a stopwork order to be withdrawn.
SECTION 111: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, enacts section 125.1] adds definitions of "ministries" and "review official" because of the amendments to the review and appeal provisions of the Act by this Bill.
SECTION 112: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 126 (2)] adds a reference to section 116.4, amends other references and deletes a reference to section 119, consequential to the amendments to Division 3 of Part 6 of the Act by this Bill.
SECTION 113: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 127]
amends references consequential to the amendments to Division 3 of Part 6 of the Act by this Bill;
deletes a requirement that a request for review be in a certain form so that the requirements for a request for review will be completely set out by regulation;
makes 2 housekeeping changes.
SECTION 114: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 128] makes amendments consequential to changes made to Division 3 of Part 6 and this Division, makes housekeeping changes to ensure consistency of language with the Forest Act, and adds a provision requiring the Forest Practices Board to ensure its request for review complies with the requirements of the regulations.
SECTION 115: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, re-enacts sections 129 to 131 and enacts section 131.1]
makes minor amendments consequential to the changes made to this Division, and for consistency with the Forest Act;
adds a requirement to disclose facts and law that will be used at the review, and enables questions of law to be referred to the commission;
allows parties to the review to agree to another date to receive the review decision;
clarifies that the original decision, rather than review decision, is appealed to the Forest Appeals Commission, more fully sets out how a failure to make a determination is appealed, and provides that for an appeal of a failure to make a determination the reviewer's decision is the one appealed if the reviewer made a determination at the review;
makes housekeeping changes related to moving content requirements for notices of appeal into the regulations and adds a requirement for the parties to the appeal to disclose facts and law that will be relied on at the appeal;
requires the commission to hold a hearing within a prescribed time and specifies when this condition is not required;
adds section 131.1 that requires hearings concerning question of law to be conducted in accordance with the regulations.
SECTION 116: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, re-enacts section 138] clarifies that the Forest Appeals Commission can examine the findings of the reviewer in all cases, requires a question of law to be binding on the review and appeal the question relates to, and makes decision-making powers of the commission consistent with the Forest Act.
SECTION 117: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, adds section 139 (3)] adds a requirement for the commission to make a decision within a prescribed time.
SECTION 118: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, re-enacts section 141] replaces the provisions that allow the Forest Appeals Commission's decision to be appealed to the courts to better reflect the actual practice and achieve consistency with the Forest Act.
SECTION 119: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 143] updates the offence provisions to reflect the changes to the relevant sections of the Act made by this Bill.
SECTION 120: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 151] clarifies the liability of a person who cuts, damages or removes Crown timber while harvesting timber on private land adjacent to Crown land.
SECTION 121: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 154] is housekeeping for uniformity it provides that this section contains a prohibition not an offence (section 143 of the Act is amended to make the contravention of section 154 an offence).
SECTION 122: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 157 (1)] provides that the normal meaning be given to the term "contractor".
SECTION 123: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, adds section 174 (3)] specifies those activities which may be funded by Forest Renewal BC.
SECTION 124: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals and replaces section 194 (1) and adds 194 (1.1)] is consequential to amendments in this Bill that provide for appeals under the Forest Act and Range Act to go to the commission.
SECTION 125: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 208 (2)] clarifies that regulations can provide for the timing of assessments, and adds a regulation making power for the purposes of section 41 (1) (c).
SECTION 126: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, enacts sections 212.1 and 217.1)]
provides regulation making powers for the phased approval of cutblocks for the purpose of approving operational plans;
provides comprehensive regulation making power with respect to woodlot licences, woodlot licence areas and woodlot licence holders, including planning, practices and reforestation requirements.
SECTION 127: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals and replaces section 218 (2)] provides comprehensive regulation making power with respect to the administrative remedy determinations, penalties and the recording of determinations and penalties in a performance record.
SECTION 128: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 220 (2)] provides comprehensive regulation making power respecting practice and procedure for administrative reviews and appeals before the Forest Appeals Commission.
SECTION 129: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals sections 224 (7) and 229] clarifies, along with the addition of section 248, the aspects of the Act that apply on June 15, 1997 to grandparented and other operational plans approved before June 15, 1997.
SECTION 130: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 230] corrects a drafting error in the Revised Statutes, 1996.
SECTION 131: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 231] is consequential to the changes to the requirements for logging plans.
SECTION 132: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals sections 232 (4), 233 (3), 234 (3), 235 and 236] is consequential to the requirement for a 5 year silviculture plan being repealed and these changes are necessary to clarify that silviculture activities associated with previously approved silviculture prescriptions and stand management prescriptions can take place without a 5 year silviculture plan and it also makes a change consequential to the repeal of the requirement for an access management plan.
SECTION 133: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, repeals section 239] is consequential to section 249 added by this Bill.
SECTION 134: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 241 (1)] expands the group of timber sale licences to which the section applies to include timber sale licences that do not provide for cutting permits that were advertised before June 15, 1995.
SECTION 135: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, re-enacts section 243] provides a regulation making power to amend the Act or an enactment that amends the Act, if necessary to more effectively bring the Act into operation.
SECTION 136: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, enacts Divisions 7 to 9]
adds sections 244 to 247 of the Act to provide transition consequential to repealing the requirement for access management plans, making logging plans a requirement only in exceptional cases and changing to a results based silviculture prescription;
adds sections 248 to 252 to require that, effective June 15, 1997, timber harvesting authorized before that date must comply with certain riparian and terrain stability standards of practice.
SECTION 137: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act amends section 1 (8) as enacted by the Supplement to the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act,] expands the power to delegate matters from the district manager to a person employed in the Ministry of Forests.
SECTION 138: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 1 (1)] is consequential to the repeal of the requirement for access management plans and the provision for site plans for woodlot licences.
SECTION 139: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 11] amends the consistency requirement for logging plans.
SECTION 140: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 18] is consequential to the repeal of the requirement for access management plans.
SECTION 141: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 19] is consequential to the repeal of the requirement for access management plans.
SECTION 142: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 62 (1) (d)] is consequential to the repeal of the requirement for access management plans.
SECTION 143: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 143 (2)] is consequential to amendments in this Bill that facilitate the role of Forest Renewal BC.
SECTION 144: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 143 (3)] is consequential to the repeal of the requirement for access management plans changes to the requirement for logging plans and changes that facilitate the role of Forest Renewal BC.
SECTION 145: [Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act, amends section 143 (4)] is consequential to changes that facilitate the role of the Forest Renewal BC.
SECTION 146: [Range Act, amends section 1] repeals the definition of "appeal board" and adds a definition of "Forest Appeals Commission" consequential to the commission assuming appeals under the Act.
SECTION 147: [Range Act, amends section 14] replaces a reference to "regional manager" with a reference to "district manager" to reflect current practice at these hearings and adds a reference to the "Forest Appeals Commission".
SECTION 148: [Range Act, amends section 31] removes a reference to the regional manager to leave the administration of suspensions to the district manager, consistent with other provisions of the Act and the elimination from the Act of reviewable decisions of the regional manager.
SECTION 149: [Range Act, amends sections 32 and 38] removes a reference to the regional manager to leave the administration of these sections to the district manager, consistent with other provisions of the Act and the elimination from the Act of reviewable decisions of the regional manager.
SECTION 150: [Range Act, amends section 34] eliminates a reference to the regional manager, consistent with other changes.
SECTION 151: [Range Act, amends section 41] makes changes to reflect the elimination of regional manager decisions in other sections, and the assumption of appeals under the Act by the Forest Appeals Commission.
SECTION 152: [Range Act, re-enacts section 43] adds the ability for the minister to order otherwise with respect to a stay, to achieve consistency with the stay provisions of the Forest Act.
SECTION 153: [Special Accounts Appropriation and Control Act, repeals and replaces section 5 (1) and (2)] is consequential to the establishment of remedial penalties under section 117.2 of the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act.
SECTION 154: [Transitional -- Evans Forest Products] validates decisions made by the minister on December 17, 1996 and January 30, 1996 with respect to the change of control of Evans Forest Products Limited.
SECTION 155: [Transitional -- Appeals] specifies the review and appeal procedures under the Forest Act and the Forest Practices Code of British Columbia Act that apply to matters that have commenced at the time new provisions come into force.
SECTION 156: [Transitional -- Cutting permits under current agreements -- issuance] provides that the delegation of cutting permit issuance, that is provided for in new agreements, may be utilized for existing agreements.
SECTION 157: [Transitional -- Administrative remedies] provides that with respect to administrative remedies if the incident occurred before the coming into force of the section, the old remedies and penalty amounts apply but the revised processes must be used to impose them.