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Part 2 — Strategic Planning, Objectives and Standards
2 (1) Private land described in a tree farm licence or woodlot licence and Crown land must be managed and used in a way that is consistent with one or more of the following:
(a) timber production, utilization and related purposes;
(b) forage production and grazing by livestock and wildlife and related purposes;
(c) recreation, scenery and wilderness purposes;
(d) water, fisheries, wildlife, biological diversity and cultural heritage resource purposes;
(e) another prescribed purpose.
(2) and (3) [Repealed 2004-36-128.]
(4) Despite subsections (1) to (3), under the Coal Act, the Geothermal Resources Act, the Mineral Tenure Act or the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act, a person may use or occupy Crown land if the person does so in accordance with the regulations and, if required by the regulations, with a special use permit.
(5) If required by the regulations, a person must obtain a special use permit before using or occupying Crown land.
(6) Subsection (5) does not apply to a person who uses or occupies Crown land described in an agreement under the Range Act or in a woodlot licence if the use or occupation is under the Coal Act, the Geothermal Resources Act, the Mineral Tenure Act or the Petroleum and Natural Gas Act.
Part 6 — Compliance and Enforcement
Division 4 — Administrative Review and Appeals
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, matters, things, transactions, circumstances or uses or occupations of land, or for different classes of persons, places, matters, things, transactions, circumstances or uses or occupations of land;
(d) establish or define classes of persons, places, matters, things, transactions, circumstances or uses or occupations of land.
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 or the council, if any, to any person.
(3) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations respecting charges to be paid to the government by holders of special use permits, including but not limited to regulations
(a) establishing the amounts of charges or the method of determining the amounts of charges, and
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 special use permits, including but not limited to regulations respecting
(a) the issuance of special use permits,
(a.1) the conditions of special use permits,
(b) the deactivation of roads authorized under special use permits, and the remediation of land that is the subject of a special use permit, including regulations that authorize the minister to make orders respecting deactivation and remediation,
(c) the surrender, cancellation and suspension of special use permits or rights granted under special use permits, and
(d) obligations that remain outstanding under special use permits that expire or are surrendered, suspended or cancelled.
(2.1) Without limiting subsection (1), the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations requiring holders of special use permits to comply with the conditions of special use permits.
(3) For certainty, a regulation made under subsection (2) or (2.1) may be made applicable to special use permits issued before the regulation comes into force.
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