BILL NO. 37

(as introduced)

2nd Session, 62nd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
63 Elizabeth II, 2014

Private Member's Bill

Protection of Property Act
(amended)

Chuck Porter
Hants West

First Reading: October 15, 2014

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Note

This Bill removes the prohibition against prosecuting a person hunting, fishing, picnicking, camping, hiking, skiing or engaging in another recreational activity or engaging in a study of flora or fauna in contravention of a notice given or a sign posted prohibiting trespassing on certain forest land. This extends the protection against trespassers to all forest land for which notice has been given or a sign has been posted.

An Act to Amend Chapter 363
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Protection of Property Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Section 15 of Chapter 363 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Protection of Property Act, is repealed.

 

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