A-18.1 - Sustainable Forest Development Act

Section 46 Disposition versions

2013-04-09

46. The functions of the chief forester, in keeping with the policy directions and objectives of the sustainable forest development strategy, consist in

(1)  establishing the methods, means and tools required to calculate allowable cuts in the forests in the domain of the State;

(2)  determining the forest data and ecological data required to carry out the analyses used to determine allowable cuts;

(3)  preparing, publishing and keeping up to date a sustainable forest development manual to be used for determining allowable cuts;

(4)  on the request of the Minister, providing the support needed to establish forest development strategies as part of the forest planning process;

(5)  determining allowable cuts for forest development units, local forests and certain residual forests, given the regional and local sustainable forest development objectives;

(6)  reviewing allowable cuts every five years and, if necessary, updating them;

(7)  at the Minister’s request, changing the allowable cuts assigned to an area, if circumstances are such that sustainable forest development could be compromised without an immediate change or if, on the basis of the same considerations as were used to determine them, allowable cuts may be revised upwards;

(8)  making allowable cuts, their date of coming into force and the grounds for their determination public;

(8.1)  in accordance with section 46.1 and after the five-year review of allowable cuts, determining the volumes of unharvested timber available for harvest, and making public those volumes and the grounds for the determination; and

(9)  analyzing the sustainable forest development results achieved in the forests in the domain of the State and sending the analysis to the Minister at the time and subject to the conditions set by the Minister.

The date of coming into force of the allowable cuts determined or revised by the chief forester corresponds to the date of coming into force of the tactical plans for integrated forest development. The date of coming into force of the allowable cuts changed by the chief forester under subparagraph 7 of the first paragraph is set by the Minister, but may not be prior to 1 April following the year the change was applied for.

2010, c. 3, s. 46; 2013, c. 2, s. 3.

2010-04-01

46. The functions of the chief forester, in keeping with the policy directions and objectives of the sustainable forest development strategy, consist in

(1)  establishing the methods, means and tools required to calculate allowable cuts in the forests in the domain of the State;

(2)  determining the forest data and ecological data required to carry out the analyses used to determine allowable cuts;

(3)  preparing, publishing and keeping up to date a sustainable forest development manual to be used for determining allowable cuts;

(4)  on the request of the Minister, providing the support needed to establish forest development strategies as part of the forest planning process;

(5)  determining allowable cuts for forest development units and local forests, given the regional and local sustainable forest development objectives;

(6)  reviewing allowable cuts every five years and, if necessary, updating them;

(7)  at the Minister’s request, changing the allowable cuts assigned to an area, if circumstances are such that sustainable forest development could be compromised without an immediate change or if, on the basis of the same considerations as were used to determine them, allowable cuts may be revised upwards;

(8)  making allowable cuts, their date of coming into force and the grounds for their determination public; and

(9)  analyzing the sustainable forest development results achieved in the forests in the domain of the State and sending the analysis to the Minister at the time and subject to the conditions set by the Minister.

The date of coming into force of the allowable cuts determined or revised by the chief forester corresponds to the date of coming into force of the tactical plans for integrated forest development. The date of coming into force of the allowable cuts changed by the chief forester under subparagraph 7 of the first paragraph is set by the Minister, but may not be prior to 1 April following the year the change was applied for.

2010, c. 3, s. 46.