T-9 - Lands and Forests Act

Section 83 Disposition versions

1987-04-01

83. (Replaced).

R. S. 1964, c. 92, s. 88; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1979, c. 81, s. 20; 1986, c. 108, s. 237.

1980-04-01

83. Whenever satisfactory information, supported by affidavit made by one or more persons before a justice of the peace or before any other competent person, is received by the Minister or by any officer or agent of the Ministère de l’Énergie et des Ressources, that any timber had been cut without authority on public lands, and describing where the said timber can be found, the said Minister, officer or agent, or any one of them, may seize, or cause to be seized, in Her Majesty’s name, the timber so reported to be cut without authority, wherever it is found, and place the same under proper custody until a decision can be had in the matter in the manner prescribed by subsections 3 and 4 of section 85.

Where the timber so reported to have been cut without authority on public lands has been made up with other timber into a crib, dam or raft, or in any other manner, has been so mixed up at the mills or elsewhere as to render it impossible or very difficult to distinguish the timber so cut on public lands without license, from other timber with which it is mixed up, the whole of the timber so mixed shall be held to have been cut without authority on public lands, and shall be liable to seizure and forfeiture accordingly until satisfactorily separated by the holder.

R. S. 1964, c. 92, s. 88; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1979, c. 81, s. 20.

1977-12-31

83. Whenever satisfactory information, supported by affidavit made by one or more persons before a justice of the peace or before any other competent person, is received by the Minister or by any officer or agent of the Ministère des terres et forêts, that any timber had been cut without authority on public lands, and describing where the said timber can be found, the said Minister, officer or agent, or any one of them, may seize, or cause to be seized, in Her Majesty’s name, the timber so reported to be cut without authority, wherever it is found, and place the same under proper custody until a decision can be had in the matter in the manner prescribed by subsections 3 and 4 of section 85.

Where the timber so reported to have been cut without authority on public lands has been made up with other timber into a crib, dam or raft, or in any other manner, has been so mixed up at the mills or elsewhere as to render it impossible or very difficult to distinguish the timber so cut on public lands without license, from other timber with which it is mixed up, the whole of the timber so mixed shall be held to have been cut without authority on public lands, and shall be liable to seizure and forfeiture accordingly until satisfactorily separated by the holder.

R. S. 1964, c. 92, s. 88; 1977, c. 5, s. 14.