2. The Government may, by regulation, establish as an ecological reserve any territory composed of lands in the public domain if it considers that measure necessary:(a) to preserve such territory in its natural state;
(b) to reserve such territory for scientific research and, if need be, for education; or,
(c) to safeguard animal and plant species threatened with disappearance or extinction.
Every regulation made in virtue of this section shall come into force on the date of its publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec or on any later date fixed therein.
1974, c. 29, s. 2; 1987, c. 23, s. 76.