24.2. The measures provided for in the government plan of action that call for the use of pesticides are exempt from the application of any general or special legislative or regulatory provision, including any provision of a municipal by-law, that prevents or delays the implementation of the measures.
The provisions of the Environment Quality Act (“chapter Q‐2”) and the regulations thereunder nonetheless remain applicable to the measures, subject to the following: when the measures are submitted to the Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks under section 22 of that Act, the Minister may authorize the measures even in the absence of a certificate from the clerk or secretary-treasurer of a municipality stating that their implementation does not contravene any municipal by-law.
2001, c. 37, s. 1; 2006, c. 3, s. 35.