F-4.1 - Forest Act

Section 59.1 Disposition versions

2007-12-21

59.1. The annual plan must include

(1)  a description of the forest management activities for which a forest management permit may be required in order to carry them out during the period covered by the plan for the implementation of the five-year program included in the general plan. Where the general plan contains an implementation schedule or specific management procedures for the areas referred to in section 53 or for decommissioning road infrastructures and, where applicable, returning them to forest productivity, they must be complied with;

(2)  a map, drawn to the scale determined by the Minister, showing the site of the forest management activities and, where applicable, the schedules for carrying out forest management activities, which the Minister may impose in order to ensure that the forest management strategies adopted to reach the annual allowable cut, annual yield and objectives assigned to the management unit are applied;

(3)  where several agreements cover the same area, an indication of the agreement holder responsible for carrying out each forest management activity;

(4)  where several agreements concern the same area, the rules and method for allocating among the agreement holders the credits to which they are entitled under this Act;

(5)  an estimate of the volume of round timber, by species or group of species, intended for the wood processing plant of each agreement holder or, under section 43.1.1, intended for other wood processing plants;

(6)  every other element determined by regulation of the Government.

The annual plan must be accompanied by silvicultural prescriptions approved by a forest engineer. The prescriptions must be supported by forest inventory data that have been compiled and analyzed or by other documents or information determined or accepted by the Minister, which may vary with the silvicultural treatments to be carried out. The forest inventory data, documents or information used in preparing the prescriptions must be forwarded to the Minister on request.

2001, c. 6, s. 46; 2003, c. 16, s. 17; 2006, c. 45, s. 9; 2007, c. 39, s. 9.

2007-03-31

59.1. The annual plan must include

(1)  a description of the forest management activities to be carried out during the period covered by the plan for the implementation of the five-year program included in the general plan. Where the general plan contains an implementation schedule or specific management procedures for the areas referred to in section 53 or for decommissioning road infrastructures and, where applicable, returning them to forest productivity, they must be complied with;

(2)  a map, drawn to the scale determined by the Minister, showing the site of the forest management activities and, where applicable, the schedules for carrying out forest management activities, which the Minister may impose in order to ensure that the forest management strategies adopted to reach the annual allowable cut, annual yield and objectives assigned to the management unit are applied;

(3)  where several agreements cover the same area, an indication of the agreement holder responsible for carrying out each forest management activity;

(4)  where several agreements concern the same area, the rules and method for allocating among the agreement holders the credits to which they are entitled under this Act;

(5)  an estimate of the volume of round timber, by species or group of species, intended for the wood processing plant of each agreement holder or, under section 43.1.1, intended for other wood processing plants;

(6)  every other element determined by regulation of the Government.

The annual plan must be accompanied with collated and analyzed forest inventory data that, in the opinion of the Minister, allows the relevance of the sylvicultural treatments to be carried out during the year to be validated.

2001, c. 6, s. 46; 2003, c. 16, s. 17; 2006, c. 45, s. 9.