C-61.01 - Natural Heritage Conservation Act

Section 74 Disposition versions

2022-05-12

74. The provisions of Chapter V of the Act respecting certain measures enabling the enforcement of environmental and dam safety legislation (chapter M-11.6) apply to this chapter and to the penal provisions provided by regulation.

2002, c. 74, s. 74; 2021, c. 1, s. 43; 2022, c. 8, s. 24.

2021-03-19

74. The fines prescribed by this Act are doubled for a second offence and tripled for a subsequent offence.

Furthermore, if an offender commits an offence under this Act after having previously been found guilty of any such offence and if, without regard to the amounts prescribed for a second or subsequent offence, the minimum fine to which the offender was liable for the first offence was equal to or greater than the minimum fine prescribed for the second offence, the minimum and maximum fines become, if the prosecutor so requests, those prescribed in the case of a second or subsequent offence.

This section applies to prior findings of guilt pronounced in the two-year period preceding the second offence or, if the minimum fine to which the offender was liable for the prior offence is that prescribed in section 73, in the five-year period preceding the second offence. Fines for a third or subsequent offence apply if the penalty imposed for the prior offence was the penalty for a second or subsequent offence.

2002, c. 74, s. 74; 2021, c. 1, s. 43.

2002-12-19

74. For a second or subsequent offence, the fines prescribed in sections 70, 71 and 72 shall be doubled.

2002, c. 74, s. 74.