C-61.01, r. 0.1 - Regulation respecting certain transitional measures of the Act to amend the Natural Heritage Conservation Act and other provisions

Updated to 24 March 2022

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chapter C-61.01, r. 0.1

Regulation respecting certain transitional measures of the Act to amend the Natural Heritage Conservation Act and other provisions

Act to amend the Natural Heritage Conservation Act and other provisions

(S.Q. 2021, c. 1, s. 66).

Natural Heritage Conservation Act

(chapter C-61.01, s. 44).

Sustainable Forest Development Act

(chapter A-18.1, s. 38).

1. Sections 46, 47 and 49 of the Natural Heritage Conservation Act (chapter C-61.01), as they read on 18 March 2021, continue to apply to the Réserve aquatique de la Vallée-de-la-Rivière-Sainte-Marguerite established as at that date until the coming into force of the first regulation made under section 44 of the Natural Heritage Conservation Act that applies to that reserve. The same applies to the Regulation respecting the Réserve aquatique de la Vallée-de-la-Rivière-Sainte-Marguerite (chapter C-61.01, r. 1.1), as it reads on 18 March 2021.

However, that aquatic reserve becomes, without further formality, the Réserve de biodiversité de la Vallée-de-la-Rivière-Sainte-Marguerite.

O.C. 198-2022, s. 1.

2. Despite the first paragraph of section 1 of this Regulation and the second paragraph of section 62 of the Act to amend the Natural Heritage Conservation Act and other provisions (S.Q. 2021, c. 1), the provisions of the regulations adopted for each biodiversity reserve and ecological reserve established as at 18 March 2021 that concern their establishment, boundaries and plan, as they read on that date, remain in force despite the coming into force of the first regulation made under section 44 of the Natural Heritage Conservation Act (chapter C-61.01) that applies to those reserves.

Those provisions are deemed to have been made in accordance with section 27 of the Natural Heritage Conservation Act and the Government may assign the reserves concerned any other protection status, apply any other conservation measure to them, amend their boundaries or terminate their designation in accordance with section 42 of that Act.

O.C. 198-2022, s. 2.

3. The conservation plans for biodiversity reserves, ecological reserves and the Estuaire-de-la-Rivière-Bonaventure marine reserve, established as at 18 March 2021, are replaced by the conservation plans published by the Minister on the website of the Minister’s department.

O.C. 198-2022, s. 3.

4. For the purposes of section 62 of the Act to amend the Natural Heritage Conservation Act and other provisions (S.Q. 2021, c. 1), this Regulation is deemed to be the first regulation made under section 44 of the Natural Heritage Conservation Act (chapter C-61.01) in respect of the ecological reserves established as at 18 March 2021.

O.C. 198-2022, s. 4.

5. Sections 31 to 38 of the Natural Heritage Conservation Act (chapter C-61.01) do not apply to the designation of land as a protected area in accordance with section 27 of that Act or the change to a protected area in accordance with section 42 of that Act, when, on or before 18 March 2021, one of the public consultations listed below provided clarification concerning the various issues raised by the proposed protected area or the proposed change to a protected area established as at that date:

(1)  a public consultation held in accordance with sections 37 to 42 of the Natural Heritage Conservation Act, as they read on 18 March 2021;

(2)  a public hearing or targeted consultation held in accordance with section 6.3 of the Environment Quality Act (chapter Q-2);

(3)  an environmental and social impact assessment and review procedure provided for in Title II of the Environment Quality Act.

O.C. 198-2022, s. 5.

6. The Minister may change the proposed aquatic reserves, proposed biodiversity reserves and proposed ecological reserves referred to in section 64 of the Act to amend the Natural Heritage Conservation Act and other provisions (S.Q. 2021, c. 1) on the conditions set out in sections 27, 29 and 30 of the Natural Heritage Conservation Act (chapter C-61.01), as they read on 18 March 2021.

O.C. 198-2022, s. 6.

7. (Amendments integrated into c. A-18.1, r. 0.01, s. 3).

O.C. 198-2022, s. 7.

8. (Omitted in part).

Despite the first paragraph, section 3 comes into force, in respect of the following protected areas, on the date of the coming into force of the first regulation made under section 44 of the Natural Heritage Conservation Act (chapter C-61.01) that applies to those areas:

(1)  the Réserve aquatique de l’Estuaire-de-la-Rivière-Bonaventure;

(2)  the Réserve de biodiversité des Caribous-de-Val-d’Or;

(3)  the Réserve de biodiversité du Karst-de-Saint-Elzéar;

(4)  the Réserve de biodiversité des Lacs-Vaudray-et-Joannès;

(5)  the Réserve de biodiversité de la Météorite;

(6)  the Réserve de biodiversité Uapishka.

O.C. 198-2022, s. 8.

REFERENCES

O.C. 198-2022, 2022 G.O. 2, 728