Statutes and Regulations

Forest Practices Code of BC Act

PART 10 - REGULATIONS

(Consolidated to February 1, 2006.)

• 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
• 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

198. (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations referred to in section 41 of the Interpretation Act.

(2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations respecting matters that are

(a) referred to in a provision of this Act as having to be in accordance with the regulations, or

(b) indicated by a provision of this Act as being a matter for a regulation.

(3) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make a regulation defining a word or expression used in the Act.

(4) In making a regulation under this Act, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may do one or more of the following:

(a) delegate a matter to a person;

(b) confer a discretion on a person;

(c) make different regulations for different persons, places, things or transactions.

199. Repealed. (B.C. Reg. 307/2005)]

200. (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations respecting fees for the provision under this Act, of a service by the government, the board, the commission or the council, if any, to any person.

(2) Repealed. (B.C. Reg. 307/2005)]

201. Repealed. (B.C. Reg. 307/2005)]

202. Repealed. (B.C. Reg. 307/2005)]

203. Repealed. (B.C. Reg. 307/2005)]

204. Repealed. (B.C. Reg. 307/2005)]

205. (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations respecting the use of a wilderness area or other Crown land in a Provincial forest or a portion of a Provincial forest.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations respecting the issuance of permits to control or prohibit the use of a wilderness area or other Crown land in a Provincial forest or a portion of a Provincial forest.

218. Repealed. (B.C. Reg. 307/2005)]

220. (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations respecting reviews, appeals and the commission.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations respecting the following:

(a) the circumstances in which a review or appeal may be made;

(b) the practice, procedure and forms for reviews and appeals and for referrals to the commission of questions of law;

(c) the content of a request for review or a notice of appeal;

(c.1) the circumstances under which a review or appeal may be dismissed on the basis that the request for review or notice of appeal does not meet the content requirements of the regulations, or that there was a failure to disclose facts and law as required by the regulations;

(d) the costs of reviews and appeals and the apportionment of those costs between parties;

(e) fees and deposits respecting applications for reviews and appeals;

(f) the number of members that constitutes a quorum of the commission or a panel;

(f.1) the period in which the commission must hold a hearing after receiving a notice of appeal;

(f.2) the period in which the commission must deliver a decision after holding a hearing;

(g) annual reports made by the commission.