LEGISLATION 



At the part of the 1968-9 Session of the Legislature that com- 

 menced on the 30th day of September, 1969, and prorogued 

 on the 17th day of December, 1969, amendments were made 

 to The Wolf and Bear Bounty Act with regard to the pay- 

 ment of wolf bounties by regional municipalities. 



Section 1 of the Act was amended by adding a new clause 

 a to define "county" as including a regional municipality. 



Section 2 of The Wolf and Bear Bounty Amendment Act, 

 1970, provides for an extension of the six-month period for 

 making applications in respect of wolves killed in the Re- 

 gional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton after the 31st day of 

 December, 1968, and before October 31, 1969. Provided the 

 skin is produced to the Treasurer of that regional munic- 

 ipality on or before the 31st day of December, 1969, the 

 person who killed the wolf is not disentitled to "a bounty by 

 reason of not producing the skin within six months after the 

 killing of the wolf. 



Under section 3, this Act was deemed to have come into 

 force on January 1, 1969. 



This amending statute appears in the 1968-9 annual sta- 

 tutes as Chapter 139. 



At the part of the Session of the Legislature that com- 

 menced on the 24th day of February, 1970, and adjourned 

 on the 26th day of June, 1970, two statutes administered by 

 the Department were enacted, and amendments were made 

 to five other statutes administered by the Department. 



THE BLACKWELL-LAURIE 

 BOUNDARY ACT, 1970 



This new Act fixes the boundary between the geographic 

 Township of Blackwell and the geographic Township of 

 Laurie in the Territorial District of Thunder Bay and amends 

 letters patent issued with descriptions that are inconsistent 

 with such boundary. This Act came into force on June 26, 

 1970, and appears in the 1970 annual statutes as Chapter 24. 



THE FISHERIES LOANSACT, 1970 



This new Act provides for loans to fishermen and others 

 affected by the prohibition of the taking of fish by reason of 

 pollution. 



Section 1 defines "Minister" as the Minister of Lands and 

 Forests. 



Section 2 authorizes the Minister to make loans with or 

 without interest in such amounts and upon such terms and 



conditions as he considers appropriate to persons carrying 

 on the business of commercial fishing or any other business 

 dependent in whole or in part on the taking of fish from 

 waters in which such taking has been prohibited by reason 

 of the contamination of fish resulting from pollution of the 

 waters. 



Section 3 authorizes federal-provincial agreements re- 

 specting the sharing of such loans. 



Section 4 provides that the monies required shall be paid 

 out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund. 



Section 5 provides that the Act came into force on April 

 20, 1970. This Act appears in the 1970 annual statutes as 

 Chapter 10. 



THE FOREST FIRES PREVENTION 

 AMENDMENT ACT, 1970 



Section 16 of The Forest Fires Prevention Act, 1968, v.'as 

 amended by adding a new subsection 2 which provides that 

 the provisions of section 16 do not apply to material that has 

 been ground, chipped or shredded in an installation ap- 

 proved in the work permit authorizing the clearing of the 

 land. 



This Act came into force on May 14, 1970, and appears 

 in the 1970 annual statutes as Chapter 13. 



THE GAME AND FISH 



AMENDMENT ACT, 1970 



Section 1 of The Came and Fish Act, 1961-62, was amended 



by adding the following definitions of a fishing preserve and 



a wolf: 



7b. "fishing preserve" means an artificial or man-made body 

 of water lying wholly within the boundaries of privately- 

 owned land, containing water from surface run-off, nat- 

 ural springs, ground water or water diverted or pumped 

 from a stream or lake but not being composed of natural 

 streams, ponds or lakes or water impounded by the dam- 

 ming of natural streams and in which fish propagated 

 under a licence or fish taken under a commercial fishing 

 licence are released for angling purposes; 



31. "wolf" means any of the species Canis lupus L. or Canis 

 latrans Say. 



Section 19 of the Act was amended by adding new sub- 

 sections 2 and 3. New subsection 2 prohibits the use of a 

 vehicle or vessel for the purpose of chasing, pursuing, worry- 

 ing, molesting, killing, injuring or destroying any animal or 

 bird. Subsection 3 provides that subsection 2 does not apply 

 to a farmer or to a party of farmers in the defence or preser- 

 vation of the property of one or more of them. 



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