Forest Practices Code of BC Act

PART 3 - OPERATIONAL PLANNING REQUIREMENTS FOR GOVERNMENT AND FOR FOREST AND RANGE TENURE AGREEMENTS

DIVISION 3 - EXEMPTION FROM OPERATIONAL PLANNING REQUIREMENTS

NOTE: This is not the current version of the Forest Practices Code. This document is available only as a reference for those sections repealed when the Forest and Range Practices Act came into force January 31, 2004.

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• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• PART 1 - DEFINITIONS
• PART 2 - STRATEGIC PLANNING, OBJECTIVES AND STANDARDS
• PART 3 - OPERATIONAL PLANNING REQUIREMENTS FOR GOVERNMENT AND FOR FOREST AND RANGE TENURE AGREEMENTS
  • DIVISION 1 - CONTENT OF OPERATIONAL PLANS
  • DIVISION 2 - OPERATIONAL PLANNING REQUIREMENTS
  • DIVISION 3 - EXEMPTION FROM OPERATIONAL PLANNING REQUIREMENTS
  • DIVISION 4 - AMENDMENT AND REPLACEMENT OF OPERATIONAL PLANS
  • DIVISION 5 - NOTICE AND EVALUATION OF OPERATIONAL PLANS
• PART 4 - FOREST PRACTICES SPECIFIC TO FOREST AND RANGE TENURE AGREEMENTS AND THE GOVERNMENT
• PART 5 - PROTECTION OF FOREST RESOURCES: GENERAL
• PART 6 - COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT
• PART 7 - GENERAL
• PART 8 - FOREST PRACTICES BOARD
• PART 9 - FOREST APPEALS COMMISSION
• PART 10 - REGULATIONS
• PART 10.1 - PILOT PROJECTS TO IMPROVE THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORK FOR FOREST PRACTICES
• PART 11 - TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

28. (1) The district manager may exempt a person referred to in section 18 or 19 from the requirement for a forest development plan if the district manager determines that

(a) the only timber harvesting that will take place on the area is

(i) the felling and removal of trees to eliminate a safety hazard,

(ii) the felling of trees to facilitate the collection of seed and the proposed harvesting will not result in an opening of greater than 1 ha,

(iii) the removal of trees that have already been felled, from landings and road rights of way,

(iv) the removal of trees from recreation sites or recreation trails, or

(v) the felling and removal of trees that have been or will be treated to facilitate the entrapment of pests, and

(b) there is no road construction required to provide access for the timber harvesting under paragraph (a).

(2)  [repealed]

29.1 The district manager, in prescribed circumstances, may exempt a person referred to in section 21.1 from the requirement for a site plan.

30.1 An exemption in effect immediately before the date this section comes into force, from a requirement to prepare a silviculture prescription under section 22, continues in effect on and after that date unless suspended or revoked under this Act.

33. The district manager may only exempt a person from a requirement referred to in sections 28 to 29.1 if the district manager determines that the requirement is not necessary to adequately manage and conserve the forest resources of British Columbia.

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