3. If it considers that private land is necessary for the establishment, enlargement or maintenance of an ecological reserve, the Government may, on the conditions it determines, authorize the Minister to acquire it by agreement, exchange or expropriation.
The land so acquired may then be established as an ecological reserve in accordance with section 2.
Sections 3 to 18 of the Act respecting the acquisition of certain forest lands (1951/1952, chapter 38) apply, mutatis mutandis, to the fixing of the indemnity payable as the result of the expropriation of land in virtue of the first paragraph.