F-4.1 - Forest Act

Section 186.3 Disposition versions

2001-06-27

186.3. Every person who contravenes a forest management standard prescribed under subparagraph 1 or 8 of the first paragraph of section 171 is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine of $5 to $450 for each tree the person cut or failed to cut in contravention of the applicable standard.

However, where the forest management standard is a standard relating to the salvage of a volume of useful ligneous matter, the offender is liable to a fine of $40 to $200 for each cubic metre of timber the person fails to salvage, in contravention of the applicable standard.

Every person who contravenes a forest management standard concerning a matter referred to in subparagraph 1 or 8 of the first paragraph of section 171, whose application is imposed by the Minister pursuant to section 25.2, is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine of $10 to $900 for each tree the person cut or failed to cut in contravention of the applicable standard or, in the case referred to in the second paragraph, to a fine of $80 to $400 for each cubic metre of timber the person fails to salvage, in contravention of the applicable standard.

2001, c. 6, s. 122.