44. Nothing in this Act shall authorize any company formed thereunder to take possession of or in anywise injure any mill-site upon which there are existing any mills or machinery, or any hydraulic works other than those intended to facilitate the passage of timber; and no company formed under this Act shall commence any work which interferes with or endangers any such occupied mill-site, without the assent in writing of the owner thereof previously obtained, or a decision of the Minister of Natural Resources, Wildlife and Parks, to the effect that the proposed works will not injure such mill-site, which assent or decision shall be entered in the land register.
R. S. 1964, c. 96, s. 44; 1973, c. 38, s. 102; 1979, c. 81, s. 20; 1990, c. 64, s. 24; 1993, c. 48, s. 327; 1994, c. 13, s. 16; 2000, c. 42, s. 143; 2003, c. 8, s. 6.