Section 6 imposes a penalty on summary conviction for 

 contravention of the Act of a fine of not more than $3,000. 

 or imprisonment for not more than six months or both. 



This Act came into force on July 23, 1971, and appears in 

 the 1971 annual statutes as Chapter 52. 



THE CROWN TIMBER 

 AMENDMENT ACT, 1971 



Section 4 of The Crown Timber Act was amended to permit 

 the Minister with the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in 

 Council, to designate as Crown management units private 

 lands, as well as public lands, on which trees are vested in 

 the Crown and to enter into agreements for the supply of 

 Crown timber from such units. 



A new section, section 15a, was added to the Act author- 

 izing the Minister to direct licencees by written notice, to 

 offer to specified mill owners or operators the first oppor- 

 tunity to purchase timber. 



Subsection 1 of section 47 of the Act, was amended by 

 adding a new clause k providing penalties for failure to 

 comply with a direction of the Minister under new section 

 15a. 



A new section 53 was added to the Act providing that any 

 regulation made under the Act may be limited territorially 

 or as to time or otherwise. 



This Act came into force on June 17, 1971, and appears in 

 the 1971 annual statutes as Chapter 23. 



THE FISH INSPECTION 



AMENDMENT ACT, 1971 



The following amendments were made to the Act to bring it 



into line with recent amendments to the complementary 



Federal Act, the Fish Inspection Act (Canada). 



Clauses a, d and g of section 1 of the Act defining the 

 terms "container," "inspector" and "processing" respec- 

 tively were repealed and new definitions of these terms 

 substituted therefor. 



Subsection 1 of section 6 of the Act was amended to pro- 

 hibit the sale of fish intended for human consumption that 

 is tainted, decomposed or unwholesome and subsection 1 

 of section 13 of the Act was amended by adding a new 

 clause ab to authorize the Lieutenant Governor in Council 

 to make regulations defining for the purposes of section 6 

 the expressions "tainted," "decomposed" and "unwhole- 

 some." 



Clause d of subsection 1 of said section 13 was amended 



to allow exceptions in appropriate cases to the regulations 

 relating to the care of the plant and establishment of 

 processors. 



Clause / of subsection 1 of section 13 was amended by 

 substituting the word "governing" for the word "prescrib- 

 ing." 



This Act came into force on May 28th, 1971, and appears 

 in the 1971 annual statutes as Chapter 19. 



THE FORESTRY AMENDMENT ACT, 1971 

 Section 2 of The Forestry Act was amended by adding new 

 subsection 2a providing for supplementary forest manage- 

 ment agreements with landowners, the term of which shall 

 not exceed the unexpired term of the agreement supple- 

 mented. 



This Act came into force on May 28, 1971, and appears in 

 the 1971 annual statutes as Chapter 17. 



THE GAME AND FISH 

 AMENDMENT ACT, 1971 



A number of amendments were made to The Came and Fish 

 Act, 1961-62, complementary to the transfer of the admin- 

 istration of fur farms from the Department of Lands and 

 Forests to the Department of Agriculture and Food. 



Paragraph 5 of section 1 of the Act was amended to in- 

 clude in the definition of "domestic animals and domestic 

 birds" any fur-bearing animal kept on a fur farm as defined 

 in The Fur Farms Act, 1971. 



Clause a of section 2 of the Act was amended so as to 

 make the provisions of the Act not applicable to fur-bearing 

 animals kept on a fur farm as defined in The Fur Farms Act, 

 1971 subject to the provisions of new subsection 2 which 

 provides that the Act applies to fur-bearing animals kept on 

 a fur farm in respect of offences against sections 59 and 61 

 of the Act. 



Clause a of section 56 of the Act relating to the possession 

 of fur-bearing animals during the closed season, was 

 amended by deleting therefrom the reference to the pelts 

 of mink raised on a fur farm. 



Clause b of section 57 of the Act was repealed and the 

 following substituted therefor: 



(b) possess, engage in or carry on, or be concerned in, the 

 trading, buying or selling of pelts. 



Subsection 2 of section 58 of the Act was repealed. 



Section 59 of the Act was repealed and a new section 59 



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