Community Forests Legislation

Legislation for community forests is contained within the Forest Act section 7.1 - Community Forest Agreements.

The Community Tenures Regulation (July, 2004) defines eligible applicants and establishes criteria used to evaluate applications.

Community forests legislation and regulations also

• set out the content of the new community forest agreement;

• link the new agreement to key provisions in the Forest Act

• enables the development of regulations related to the agreement;

• establishes provisions to award and evaluate agreements; and

• includes provisions for the possible replacement of the probationary agreements with long-term community forest agreements.

The Ministry of Forests provides a page of links to current regulations and legislation

Copies of regulations are also available through Crown Publications.