Wildlife Act (amended)

BILL NO. 183

(as introduced)

1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
54 Elizabeth II, 2005

Private Member's Bill

Wildlife Act
(amended)

Gerald Sampson
Victoria-The Lakes

First Reading: May 3, 2005

(Explanatory Notes)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Notes

Clause 1

(a) requires the Minister of Natural Resources to provide notice of the trapping season;(b) sets out when and how notice is to be provided. Clause 2 adds regulation-making authority with respect to notice and to provide an identification system for traps.

An Act to Amend Chapter 504
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Wildlife Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows: 1 Subsection 39(1) of Chapter 504 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Wildlife Act, is amended by adding immediately after subsection (1) the following subsection:

(1A) The Minister shall provide notice to the public of the open season for the taking of wildlife in the Province. (1B) Notice under subsection (1A)

(a) shall be provided before, during and at the end of the open season for the taking of wildlife; and

(b) may be provided by newspaper, radio, or any other means.

2 Subsection 113(1) of Chapter 504, as amended by Chapter 9 of the Acts of 1993, Chapters 8 and 25 of the Acts of 1995-96, Chapter 11 of the Acts of 1998 and Chapter 46 of the Acts of 2001, is further amended by adding immediately after clause (x) the following clauses:

(xa) respecting notice to the public of the open season for the taking of wildlife; (xb) respecting a tagging system to identify the ownership of traps;

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