4. A protection officer, his immediate superior and a protection assistant responsible for seeing to the enforcement of the Act respecting the conservation and development of wildlife (chapter C-61.1) are in the same manner responsible for seeing to the enforcement of this Act and the regulations thereunder.
For that purpose, sections 6, 13 to 18, 21 and 25 of the said Act apply, with the necessary modifications.
Generally, every protection officer or employee of the branch charged with enforcing wildlife conservation whose main duty is to supervise the enforcement of this Act shall be, as far as possible, a Native person. For this purpose, the Minister shall establish a protection officer training program for the Native people.
1978, c. 92, s. 4; 1983, c. 39, s. 194; 1996, c. 62, s. 50; 2000, c. 48, s. 36.