1.1. The object of the agricultural land preservation regime established by this Act is to secure a lasting territorial basis for the practice of agriculture, in accordance with a diversity of models requiring in particular varying areas of land, and to promote, in keeping with the concept of sustainable development, the preservation and development of agricultural activities and enterprises in the agricultural zones established by the regime.
1996, c. 26, s. 4; 2021, c. 352021, c. 35, s. 731.