A-18.1, r. 5.1 - Regulation respecting the scaling of timber harvested in forests in the domain of the State

Section 33 Disposition versions

2013-07-18

33. Timber must be rescaled or the scaling corrected or cancelled, as the case may be, on the request of the Minister, in the following cases:

(1)  where the verification carried out by the Minister shows measurement discrepancies greater than 3% in volume;

(2)  where the verification carried out by the Minister shows one or more errors or omissions that could cause a discrepancy in the quantity of timber that has been scaled, counted or sampled;

(3)  scaling has not been carried out by a culler who holds a licence issued under the Cullers Act (chapter M-12.1);

(4)  sampling does not comply with what is provided in the scaling authorization;

(5)  sampling is not carried out according to the timber scaling instructions in connection with the scaling method selected provided for in the manual referred to in the third paragraph;

(6)  timber is piled in a manner to prevent it to be scaled using a scaling tool;

(7)  scaling, timber transportation authorization and loading registration forms contain erroneous, false or misleading information;

(8)  the compilation unit indicated on the transportation authorization form does not correspond, in particular, to the timber load concerned, to the good source of timber or the good destination of timber;

(9)  the culler did not classify the logs using the quality grids provided for in the manual;

(10)  the culler did not evaluate the volumetric reduction in accordance with the types of defect provided for in the manual referred to in the third paragraph.

Where rescaling is required, the rescaled timber must be left undisturbed at the place where it was scaled until the expiry of one of the time periods provided for in the first and second paragraphs of section 32, as the case may be.

In all cases, the culler must take the corrective measures to the form according to the form amendment rules provided for in the manual referred to in the third paragraph of section 70 of the Sustainable Forest Development Act (chapter A-18.1).

O.C. 724-2013, s. 33.