A-18.1 - Sustainable Forest Development Act

Section 72 Disposition versions

2013-04-01

72. The Government may, by regulation,

(1)  determine the scaling standards for timber harvested in the forests in the domain of the State, in particular, the scaling methods and the standards applicable to timber transportation, to the transmission of scaling or inventory data, to the verification of data and to corrections to scaling, including the assistance that the person or body required to scale the timber must provide to the Minister;

(2)  set the fees payable by the person or body required to scale the timber for the loss of scaling, inventory or transportation forms that were in the possession of the person or body, and vary the fees depending on the type or number of forms lost; and

(3)  determine the provisions of a regulation whose violation constitutes an offence and specify, from among the fines prescribed in section 244, the one to which an offender is liable for a given offence.

2010, c. 3, s. 72.