Free Use Permit Regulation (B.C. Reg.335/99)
Made 1999-10-22 · Text as of 2026-10-01
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- Language
- English
- Kind
- Regulation
- Organisation
- European Union
- Country
- Canada · British Columbia
- Subjects
- Forestry
- Keywords
- traditional rights/customary rights, authorization/permit, Indigenous Peoples
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Free Use Permit Regulation file:///D/HTML/bc25673.htm[14.01.2025 19:39:57] Copyright (c) Queen's Printer, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada IMPORTANT INFORMATION B.C. Reg. 335/99 O.C. 1453/99 Deposited October 22, 1999 Forest Act FREE USE PERMIT REGULATION [includes amendments up to B.C. Reg. 133/2011, July 21, 2011] Definition of traditional and cultural activity 1 For the purposes of section 48 (1) (g) of the Forest Act, "traditional and cultural activity" means an activity that (a) has historically been carried out in British Columbia by members of a group to which the person carrying out the activity belongs, (b) is carried out for a traditional or cultural purpose of the group, (c) is not carried out for profit or for a commercial purpose, including trading and bartering, and (d) is not carried out for the purpose of constructing a residential dwelling except for a residential dwelling constructed by an aboriginal community with an aboriginal right to timber that includes constructing residential dwellings. [am. B.C. Reg. 183/2008, s. 1.] Authority to enter into free use permit 2 For the purposes of section 49 (2.1) of the Forest Act, the minister may enter into a free use permit for a volume exceeding 50 m3 only if the person applying for the free use permit can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the minister that the timber is to be used for the construction of (a) a longhouse, community hall or other similar structure, or (b) a residential dwelling constructed by an aboriginal community with an aboriginal right to timber that includes constructing residential dwellings. [am. B.C. Regs. 183/2008, s. 2; 133/2011, Sch. s. 15.] [Provisions relevant to the enactment of this regulation: Forest Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 157, sections 48 and 49] Copyright (c) Queen's Printer, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada http://qrcodes.qp.gov.bc.ca/?url=http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws new/document/ID/freeside/25 335 99 http://qrcodes.qp.gov.bc.ca/what-is.html file:///Recon/document/ID/freeside/info