163. Section 122 does not apply to a sandpit referred to in section 118 opened before 1 April 2018 that, on that date, is the subject of a lease to mine surface mineral substances, as long as the lease has not expired.
Despite the foregoing, a minimum distance of 100 m must be kept between the operation area of a sandpit referred to in the first paragraph and the limits of an ecological reserve or a proposed ecological reserve.
473-2017O.C. 473-2017, s. 163.