P-9.002, r. 2.1 - Archaeological Research Regulation

Section 2 Disposition versions

2013-04-11

2. An archaeological research permit may be issued by the Minister to a person who applies for it if the following conditions are met:

(1)  the applicant provides, in addition to the written consent of the immovable’s owner or of any other interested person, an agreement entered into with that owner or interested person concerning the nature and duration of the work, and the measures for conservation of objects that will be uncovered;

(2)  the Minister has received every annual archaeological research report related to a permit now expired or revoked that was held by that person;

(3)  the applicant submits an archaeological research project that includes

(a)  the place of the archaeological operation, including the precise perimeter of the operation and the archaeological sites already known in that perimeter on a plan or topographic map;

(b)  the nature of the archaeological operation, including details on the context and its objectives, and a history of the prior archaeological researches in the perimeter of the planned operation;

(c)  the planned duration of the archaeological research with the dates scheduled for the beginning and end of the operation;

(d)  the composition of the team that will carry out the archaeological operation: the name of all the persons in charge of the archaeological operation, assistants and specialists, and the number of technicians;

(e)  except for technicians, the record of qualification of each member of the archaeological operation team, including education or university training and relevant experience and, for all the persons in charge of the archaeological operation, a list of their scientific publications, a list of the bodies to which they have been attached since the end of their training and their position in each body;

(f)  the methods that the person plans to use to operate on the site and to record data;

(g)  if the application concerns an archaeological site to which a Borden code has been given by the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications, the strategies that the person plans to use, on the site and in the laboratory, to preventively preserve or restore the movable and immovable relics;

(h)  the places and circumstances in which collections and data will be treated and analyzed and, in the case of an archaeological operation on land in the domain of the State, the proposed place for the deposit of collections;

(i)  a description of the material means for the research, in particular the equipment and premises; and

(j)  the name of the persons and bodies that provided funds, the amounts obtained for the research project and an itemized budget for the financial resources at the person’s disposal at each stage of the research, such as on-site operation, the treatment of objects uncovered, the analysis and the drafting of the archaeological research report.

M.O. 2013-01, s. 2.