WILDLIFE ACT

"accompany" means to remain in the company of the other person, able to see the other person without the aid of any device other than ordinary corrective lenses and able to communicate by unamplified voice with that person;

"amphibian" means a vertebrate of the class Amphibia and includes the eggs and other developmental life stages;

"angler day" is a unit representing one person angling during any part of a day and is used to determine the extent to which a stream, lake or area specified under section 53 may be used for angling, for example, "a limit of 1 000 angler days" means that the total obtained by adding together the number of anglers using the stream, lake or area on each day of a specified period must not exceed 1 000;

"angler day quota" means the number of angler days allocated by the regional manager to an angling guide for the use of the angling guide's clients, or a class of those clients, during a period specified under section 53;

"angling" means catching or attempting to catch fish with a hook and line, with or without a rod, and includes

"angling guide operating plan" means a description of the operations of an angling guide that is in the form and contains the information required by the regulations;

"angling site" means a location on a stream or lake, or on the bank, bed or shore of a stream or lake, from or from near which a person angles;

"appeal board" means the Environmental Appeal Board established under the Environment Management Act;

"assistant angling guide" means a person licensed as an assistant angling guide under this Act;

"assistant director" means the assistant director of the Wildlife Branch of the ministry;

"assistant guide" means a person licensed as an assistant guide under this Act;

"camp" includes a hunting or fishing camp, logging camp, construction camp or camp established in connection with developing the oil, gas or mineral resources of British Columbia;

"carry" includes the storing of or having in possession of, in a boat, aircraft, motor vehicle, trailer or all terrain vehicle, even though the boat, aircraft, motor vehicle, trailer or all terrain vehicle is used as temporary living quarters;

"closed season" means a specified period during which a species of wildlife must not be hunted or taken;

"cold storage plant" means a facility where, for compensation or reward received or promised, wildlife or fish or parts of them are processed and stored, either fresh or frozen, for later consumption;

"conservation officer" means a conservation officer defined in section 1 (1) of the Environment Management Act;

"constable" means an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or either of the following as defined in the Police Act:

"critical wildlife area" means land in a wildlife management area that is designated as a critical wildlife area;

"crossbow" means a bow fixed across a stock with a groove for the arrow or bolt and a mechanism for holding and releasing the string;

"Crown land" means land, whether or not it is covered by water, or an interest in land, vested in the government;

"director" means the director of the Wildlife Branch and, for matters relating to fish, includes a person designated by regulation of the Lieutenant Governor in Council;

"endangered species" means a species of animal that is designated as an endangered species;

"firearm" includes a rifle, shotgun, handgun or spring gun and any device that propels a projectile by means of an explosion, compressed gas or spring but does not include a bow;

(a) vertebrate of the order Petromyzontiformes (lampreys) or class Osteichthyes (bony fishes), or

(b) invertebrate of the class Crustacea (crustaceans) or class Mollusca (mollusks)

from or in non-tidal waters of British Columbia, and includes their eggs and juvenile stages;

"fur management plan" means a plan for managing and trapping fur bearing animals that is in the form and contains the information required by the regulations;

"fur trader" means a person who is engaged in the business of buying, selling or trading in pelts or skins of fur bearing animals or other wildlife prescribed for the purpose of this definition, whether as principal, agent or employee, and whether the pelts or skins were obtained, taken or trapped by the fur trader or another person;

"game" means big game, small game, game birds and fur bearing animals, and other species prescribed as game;

"game bird" means a bird prescribed as a game bird and includes the eggs of that bird;

"guide" means a person who, for compensation or reward received or promised, accompanies and assists another person to hunt wildlife, but does not include a guide for fish;

"guide for fish" means a person who, for compensation or reward received or promised,

(b) attends another person at or near an angling site in a manner that, directly or indirectly, assists that person to angle, or

but does not include a member of a class of persons prescribed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council;

"guide outfitter" means a person licensed as a guide outfitter under this Act;

"habitat" or "wildlife habitat" means the air, soil, water, food and cover components of the environment on which wildlife depend directly or indirectly in order to carry out their life processes;

"harass" includes worry, exhaust, fatigue, annoy, plague, pester, tease or torment, but does not include the lawful hunting, trapping or capturing of wildlife;

"hunt" includes shooting at, attracting, searching for, chasing, pursuing, following after or on the trail of, stalking or lying in wait for wildlife, or attempting to do any of those things, whether or not the wildlife is then or subsequently wounded, killed or captured,

"hunting licence" means a licence to hunt under section 11, but does not include a limited entry hunting authorization;

"limited entry hunting authorization" means an authorization issued under section 16;

"meatcutter" means a person who, for compensation or reward received or promised, processes wildlife or fish for consumption;

"nest" means a structure, or part of a structure, prepared by or used by an animal of the class Aves to hold its eggs or offspring;

"no shooting area" means a designated area in which the discharge of a firearm is prohibited;

(a) a person who is not a resident but who is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada, or

(ii) has resided in Canada for the 12 month period immediately before making an application under this Act or the regulations or doing another thing relevant to the operation of this Act;

"non resident alien" means a person who is neither a resident nor a non resident;

(a) a constable, a conservation officer, the director, an assistant director, a regional manager, or

(b) an employee of the government designated by name or position as an officer, by regulation of the minister;

"open season" means a specified period of time during which a species of wildlife may be hunted or taken;

"person", for the purpose of issuing a licence, limited entry hunting authorization or a registration of a trapline, means a natural person;

"prohibited hours" means the hours during which the hunting of specified species of wildlife in a locality is prohibited;

specified by the regional manager that the clients or a class of client of a guide outfitter may kill in the guide outfitter's guiding area, or part of it, during a licence year, or part of it, but does not include an angler day quota;

"raptor" means a bird of the order Falconiformes known as vultures, eagles, falcons and hawks or the order Strigiformes known as owls, and includes its eggs;

"regional manager" means a regional manager of the recreational fisheries and wildlife programs;

(i) is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada, whose only or primary residence is in British Columbia, and

(ii) has resided in British Columbia for 7 months in the 12 months immediately before making an application under this Act or the regulations or doing another thing relevant to the operation of this Act, or

(i) is not a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada, but whose only or primary residence is in British Columbia, and

(ii) has resided in British Columbia for the 12 month period immediately before making an application under this Act or the regulations or doing another thing relevant to the operation of this Act;

"spear fishing" means fishing by use of a spear propelled by a spring, an elastic band, compressed air, a bow or by hand;

"tanner" means a person who, for compensation or reward received or promised, unhairs, fleshes, tans, plucks, dresses or dyes the pelts of wildlife or parts of the pelts;

"taxidermist" means a person who, for compensation or reward received or promised, prepares, preserves or mounts heads, skeletons, pelts or skins of wildlife or fish;

"threatened species" means a species of animal that is designated as a threatened species;

"traffic" means to buy, sell, trade or distribute for gain or consideration or to offer to do so;

"trap" includes a snare, net or other device, as defined by regulation, capable of being used in the taking or capturing of wildlife;

"trapline" means an area for which registration is granted to one or more licensed trappers for the trapping of fur bearing animals;

"wildlife" means raptors, threatened species, endangered species, game or other species of vertebrates prescribed as wildlife and, for the purposes of sections 3 to 5, 7, 8, 84 (6.1) to (6.4), 97.1 to 98.1 and 108 (2) (v), includes fish;

"wildlife management area" means land designated as a wildlife management area;

"wildlife sanctuary" means land in a wildlife management area designated as a wildlife sanctuary.

(a) a person has anything in possession when the person has it in his or her personal possession or knowingly

(ii) has it in any place, whether or not that place belongs to or is occupied by him or her, for the use or benefit of himself or herself or of another person, and

(b) if one of 2 or more persons, with the knowledge and consent of the rest, has anything in his or her custody or possession, it is deemed to be in the custody and possession of each and all of them.

Property in wildlife

2 (1) Ownership in all wildlife in British Columbia is vested in the government.

(2) A person does not acquire a right of property in any wildlife except in accordance with a permit or licence issued under this Act or the Game Farm Act or as provided in subsection (3) of this section.

(3) A person who lawfully kills wildlife and complies with all applicable provisions of this Act and the regulations acquires the right of property in that wildlife.

(4) If a person by accident or for the protection of life or property kills wildlife, that wildlife, despite subsection (3), remains the property of the government.

(5) Despite anything in this Act, no right of action lies, and no right of compensation exists, against the government for death, personal injury or property damage caused by

Minister's powers

3 The minister, for the purpose of access to or the management or protection of wildlife, may

(a) acquire and administer land, improvements on land and timber, timber rights and other rights on private land, and

(b) enter into and carry out an agreement with a person, association or other body.

Power to designate wildlife management areas

4 (1) In this section, "park" and "recreation area" have the same meanings as in the Park Act.

(2) With the consent of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, the minister may, by regulation, designate as a wildlife management area land that is under the minister's administration and is not in a park or a recreation area.

(3) The designation of land under subsection (2) does not affect any rights granted before the designation.

(4) Despite any other enactment, a person may not use land or resources in a wildlife management area without the written permission of the regional manager.

Critical wildlife areas and wildlife sanctuaries

5 (1) If the minister requires land for habitat for a species of wildlife designated as an endangered species or threatened species, the minister may, by regulation, designate land in a wildlife management area as a critical wildlife area.

(2) The minister may, by regulation, designate land in a wildlife management area as a wildlife sanctuary.

Endangered and threatened species

6 (1) If the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers that a species of wildlife is threatened with imminent extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range in British Columbia because of the action of humans, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may, by regulation, designate the species as an endangered species.

(2) If the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers that a species of wildlife is likely to become endangered in British Columbia if the factors affecting its vulnerability are not reversed, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may, by regulation, designate the species as a threatened species.

Damage to land set aside for wildlife

in a wildlife management area, except as permitted under section 4 (4) or by the regulations or a permit.

(2) The regulations may provide that compliance with standards set by the Coal Act, Geothermal Resources Act, Mineral Tenure Act or Petroleum and Natural Gas Act or regulations or other instruments under those Acts constitutes sufficient compliance with subsection (1) and, for that purpose, may adopt different standards for different areas designated under sections 4 and 5.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), the regional manager may issue a permit if the applicant has complied with section 3 of the Environment Management Act.

(5) A person who contravenes an order made under subsection (4) commits an offence.

Right of action

8 The government has a right of action against a person who, without authority, destroys or damages wildlife habitat in a wildlife management area or an area set apart for wildlife management and may recover damages from the person for

(a) any money that the government spends to restore the habitat and its wildlife to its original state, or

(b) the loss of the habitat and its wildlife if restoration of the wildlife habitat is impossible.

Damaging beaver dams

(b) if the action is taken to provide irrigation or drainage under lawful authority for the protection of property, or

Financial responsibility

10 (1) The minister may require bonding under the Bonding Act from a person who engages in, or proposes to engage in, an operation on land designated under section 4 or 5.

(2) A payment or forfeiture under a bond under subsection (1) does not relieve the person of any other obligation or liability under this Act.

Hunting and licences

11 (1) A person who hunts wildlife commits an offence unless the person holds all of the following:

(a) a hunting licence issued to the person under this Act;

(b) any limited entry hunting authorization that is required by regulation;

(d) any other permit that is required by regulation.

(1.1) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person under 14 years of age on whose behalf the parent or guardian holds a hunting licence issued in accordance with section 17 (5).

(2) A person must not issue a hunting licence for a person under 10 years of age.

(5) A person under 19 years of age commits an offence if the person hunts unless the person is accompanied by and under the close personal supervision of a person who

(7) A person must not issue a trapping licence to a person unless the applicant is a citizen of Canada or a permanent resident of Canada.

(8) A person commits an offence if the person traps fur bearing animals unless he or she holds a trapping licence.

(9) Subsections (1) (a) and (c) and (8) do not apply to an Indian residing in British Columbia.

Angling licences

12 A person commits an offence if the person angles in the non-tidal waters of British Columbia unless the person is

Licences as prescribed

13 The Lieutenant Governor in Council may prescribe other licences required in addition to any licence required by this Act.

Number of licences limited

14 A person commits an offence if the person obtains or is in possession of more licences or limited entry hunting authorizations than the number prescribed by regulation.

Issue of licences

15 (1) The director, or a person authorized by the director, may issue and authorize the issue of licences in the form, with the content and valid for the term the director, or a person authorized by the director, specifies.

(2) Applications for licences must be made in the manner and form required by the director, or a person authorized by the director.

Limited entry hunting authorization

(b) provide for limited entry hunting authorizations to be issued by means of a lottery or other method of random selection among applicants, and

(2) An application fee collected under a lottery or other method referred to in subsection (1) must be paid into the general fund of the consolidated revenue fund.

Youth licences

(a) is a resident and does not hold a resident hunter number card issued under the regulations, or

(b) is a non resident under 19 years of age, or a non resident alien under 19 years of age, unless the person is to be accompanied by a licensed guide or a person who holds a permit under section 70,

must not apply for or be issued a hunting licence unless he or she complies with the regulations and has successfully completed examinations on conservation, outdoor recreation and safety approved by the director.

(2) If a person referred to in subsection (1) applies for a hunting licence for the first time following successful completion of the examinations referred to in that subsection, the person must apply to

(3) Despite subsection (1), a hunting licence must not be issued to a person who is under 19 years of age unless a parent or guardian applies for the licence in person and signs a written undertaking that the parent or guardian will not allow the son, daughter or ward to hunt or carry a firearm unless he or she is accompanied by and under the close personal supervision of a person who is 19 years of age or older and who holds a hunting licence.

(4) For the purpose of subsection (3), if the parent or guardian is not a resident, he or she may apply for the licence in writing.

(5) Despite subsections (1) and (3), a hunting licence may only be issued to a parent or guardian on behalf of a son, daughter or ward who

(6) A person who has reached 19 years of age commits an offence if, without holding a hunting licence or being exempt from holding a hunting licence, the person accompanies another person who is carrying a firearm and is under 19 years of age.

(7) A person 19 years of age or older, who accompanies a person under 19 years of age while the younger person hunts or is in possession of a firearm, commits an offence if

(a) the younger person is required to possess a hunting licence and does not possess a hunting licence, or

(b) the older person fails to provide close personal supervision of the younger person.

(8) A parent or guardian commits an offence if he or she gives permission to his or her child or ward, who is under 19 years of age and with respect to whom the parent or guardian has given an undertaking under subsection (3), to

unless the child or ward is accompanied by and under the close personal supervision of a person who is 19 years of age or older and who holds a hunting licence.

(a) has not successfully completed the examinations referred to in subsection (1), and

the wildlife must be included in the bag limit of the person who accompanies him or her under section 11 (5).

Prescribed course of training

(a) requiring that a person, before being entitled to hunt or to receive a hunting licence, successfully complete examinations on conservation, outdoor recreation and safety approved by the director;

Permits

19 (1) A regional manager or a person authorized by a regional manager may, to the extent authorized by and in accordance with regulations made by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, by the issue of a permit, authorize a person

(a) to do anything that the person may do only by authority of a permit or that the person is prohibited from doing by this Act or the regulations, or

(b) to omit to do anything that the person is required to do by this Act or the regulations,

subject to and in accordance with those conditions, limits and period or periods the regional manager may set out in the permit and, despite anything contained in this Act or the regulations, that person has that authority during the term of the permit.

(3) If a regional manager issues a permit respecting the use of firearms, the regional manager may exempt a person from the requirements of section 9 of the Firearm Act and may specify the conveyance or type of conveyance for which the permit is limited.

(4) The regional manager or the person authorized by the regional manager may amend the conditions of a permit as determined by him or her and issued under this section, but the amendment is not effective until the permittee has notice of it.

Permit applications and fees

20 (1) Applications for permits must be made in the manner and form specified by the director.

(2) If the director issues a permit to a non resident or non resident alien for a period of 14 days or less, the director may waive a prescribed fee.

Import and export of wildlife

21 (1) Except as authorized by a permit issued under this Act or under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, a person commits an offence if the person

(a) imports into British Columbia live wildlife, or the egg of a wildlife species, or

(b) exports out of British Columbia wildlife or parts of them, or the egg of a wildlife species.

Trafficking in wildlife

22 A person who traffics in live wildlife or wildlife meat, except as authorized by regulation or a permit, commits an offence.

Section Repealed

23 [Repealed 2003-90-27.]

Suspension and cancellation of licences

24 (1) In this section, "convicted" includes the granting of an absolute or conditional discharge.

(2) After providing an opportunity for the person to be heard, the director may, for any cause considered sufficient by the director, do any of the following:

(a) prohibit, for a period within prescribed limits, the person from hunting, angling or carrying a firearm;

(b) cancel or suspend, for a period within prescribed limits, any limited entry hunting authorization or licence that is issued to the person under this Act or the regulations.

(3) On notice of a suspension or cancellation under subsection (2), the person must immediately deliver the licence or limited entry hunting authorization to the director.

(4) If a licence or limited entry hunting authorization is suspended, the director must return it to the person at the expiration of the period of suspension.

(5) If a licence or limited entry hunting authorization is cancelled, the director may order that the person is ineligible to obtain or renew a licence or limited entry hunting authorization for a period, within the prescribed limits, and the director must inform the person of the period of ineligibility.

(6) If the licence or limited entry hunting authorization held by a person has been suspended, the person commits an offence if during the period of suspension

(a) of the licence or limited entry hunting authorization, he or she applies for or in any way obtains a new licence or limited entry hunting authorization,

(7) A person who does any of the following commits an offence:

(a) while ineligible to obtain a licence or limited entry hunting authorization, the person applies for or obtains a licence or limited entry hunting authorization;

(b) the person hunts while ineligible to obtain a hunting licence;

(8) A hunting licence or limited entry hunting authorization issued to a person under this Act is cancelled automatically from the date of sentencing, the date that the passing of sentence is suspended, the date of being granted an absolute or conditional discharge or the date a court makes a disposition under the Young Offenders (British Columbia) Act if the person is convicted of

(b) an offence under subsection (6), (7) or (14) of this section or section 28 with respect to hunting,

(10) An angling licence issued to a person under this Act is cancelled automatically from the date of sentencing, the date that the passing of sentence is suspended, the date of being granted an absolute or conditional discharge or the date a court makes a disposition under the Young Offenders (British Columbia) Act if the person is convicted of

(a) an offence under subsection (6), (7) or (14) of this section with respect to angling,

(11) A person to whom subsection (8) or (10) applies must immediately surrender his or her licence or limited entry hunting authorization, or, if subsection (8) applies and the person holds both a hunting licence and a limited entry hunting authorization, both the hunting licence and the limited entry hunting authorization

(12) If a person to whom subsection (2) would otherwise apply does not hold a licence or limited entry hunting authorization or is exempted from holding one, the director may prohibit the person for a period, within any prescribed limits, from doing the thing for which a licence or limited entry hunting authorization would ordinarily be required.

(13) If a person to whom subsection (8) or (10) otherwise applies does not hold a licence or limited entry hunting authorization or is exempted from holding one, the person is automatically prohibited from the date of sentencing, the date that the passing of sentence is suspended, the date of being granted an absolute or conditional discharge or the date a court makes a disposition under the Young Offenders (British Columbia) Act, from doing the thing for which a licence or limited entry hunting authorization would ordinarily be required, and subsection (5) applies.

(14) A person commits an offence if the person, during a period of prohibition under subsection (2), (12) or (13),

(a) applies for or in any way obtains a licence or limited entry hunting authorization that he or she is prohibited from obtaining, or

(15) The sanctions provided for in this section apply in addition to any fines, penalties, additional fines, prohibitions, directions or requirements that may be imposed under section 84, 84.1, 84.2 or 84.3 and whether or not they are requested or ordered at the time of sentencing for an offence.

(16) If a person who has obtained a licence or limited entry hunting authorization for which residence in British Columbia is a prerequisite ceases to be a resident, the person's licence or limited entry hunting authorization is suspended for as long as he or she is not a resident.

Suspension and cancellation of permits

25 (1) A regional manager, for any cause he or she considers sufficient, and after providing an opportunity for the person to be heard, may suspend or cancel a permit held by a person, may order that the person is ineligible to obtain or renew a permit for a period and, if he or she does make an order, must inform the person of the period of ineligibility.

(2) An officer may, without the necessity of holding a hearing, exercise the powers of a regional manager under this section to suspend a permit and, if a permit is suspended by an officer, the matter must be referred to the regional manager, who may confirm, reduce, extend or terminate the suspension.

Hunting, trapping and firearm prohibitions

26 (1) A person commits an offence if the person hunts, takes, traps, wounds or kills wildlife

(h) with a pump, repeating or auto loading shotgun unless the magazine contains a plug that is incapable of removal except by disassembling the gun, and that makes the magazine incapable of holding more than 2 cartridges.

(2) Subsection (1) (c), (d), (e) and (h) does not apply to a person who hunts or traps wildlife that is on the person's property and is a menace to a domestic animal or bird.

Use of conveyance

27 (1) A person who discharges a firearm or wounds or kills wildlife from a motor vehicle or from a boat that is propelled by a motor commits an offence.

(b) uses a helicopter for the purposes of transporting hunters or game, or while on a hunting expedition,

(3) A person who herds or harasses wildlife with the use of a motor vehicle, aircraft, boat or other mechanical device commits an offence.

(4) A person who hunts game within 6 hours after being airborne in an aircraft, other than a regularly scheduled commercial aircraft, commits an offence.

Dangerous hunting or trapping

28 A person who hunts or traps without reasonable consideration for the lives, safety or property of other persons commits an offence.

Attempt to capture wildlife

29 Except as authorized by this Act, the regulations or a permit, a person who attempts to capture wildlife commits an offence.

Swimming wildlife

30 Except as provided under section 35, a person who hunts, takes, wounds or kills big game while it is swimming commits an offence.

Shooting across highway

31 A person who discharges a firearm on or across the travelled portions of a highway prescribed under section 108 commits an offence.

No shooting area

Possession of wildlife

33 (1) A person commits an offence if the person has live wildlife in his or her personal possession except as authorized under a licence or permit or as provided by regulation.

(2) A person commits an offence if the person has dead wildlife or a part of any wildlife in his or her possession except as authorized under a licence or permit or as provided by regulation.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply to a person acting under a licence under the Fur Farm Act or the Game Farm Act.

Feeding dangerous wildlife

33.1 (1) A person who intentionally feeds or attempts to feed dangerous wildlife commits an offence.

(2) A person commits an offence if the person, with the intent of attracting dangerous wildlife to any land or premises, provides, leaves or places in, on or about the land or premises food, food waste or any other substance that could attract dangerous wildlife to the land or premises.

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply to a person who is engaging in hunting or trapping dangerous wildlife in accordance with all other applicable provisions of this Act and the regulations.

Birds, nests and eggs

34 A person commits an offence if the person, except as provided by regulation, possesses, takes, injures, molests or destroys

(b) the nest of an eagle, peregrine falcon, gyrfalcon, osprey, heron or burrowing owl, or

Retrieval of wildlife killed

35 (1) In this section, "dwelling place" does not include a temporary or seasonal camp.

(2) A person commits an offence if the person hunts wildlife and kills or injures that wildlife and fails to make every reasonable effort to

(a) retrieve the wildlife, and if it is alive to kill it and include it in his or her bag limit, and

(b) remove the edible portions of the carcass of game to the person's normal dwelling place or to a meatcutter or the owner or operator of a cold storage plant,

Possession of carcass

36 (1) A person who possesses the carcass of any wildlife, whether or not the carcass has been divided, without leaving attached the parts required by regulation to be left attached, commits an offence.

(a) the carcass is given to a meatcutter or the owner or operator of a cold storage plant to be recorded in accordance with section 71,

(b) the carcass arrives at the person's normal dwelling place and is butchered and stored there for consumption on the premises, or

(c) the carcass is presented to an employee of the Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks or other person specified by the Lieutenant Governor in Council for inspection.

Transportation of wildlife

37 A person who ships or transports in British Columbia, or engages another person to ship or transport in British Columbia, wildlife or fish or parts of them, except as provided by regulation, commits an offence.

Failure to provide information

38 A person who fails, on the request of an officer, to state correctly the locality where and the date on which wildlife or fish in the person's possession was killed, taken or caught by the person or came into his or her possession, commits an offence.

Agricultural and cleared land

39 (1) A person commits an offence if the person, without the consent of the owner, lessee or occupier of land,

(b) hunts over Crown land that is subject to a grazing lease while the land is occupied by livestock.

Power to prohibit hunting or trapping

40 (1) Despite anything in this Act or the regulations or the privileges conferred by a licence or limited entry hunting authorization, the minister may, by regulation, prohibit a person or a class of persons from

in a defined area for a period the minister considers necessary for the proper management of wildlife in that area.

(2) Despite anything in this Act or the regulations, the minister may, by regulation, allow a person or a class of persons to hunt or trap in a defined area for a period the minister considers necessary for the proper management of wildlife in that area.

Prohibition within a trapline

41 A person commits an offence if the person sets a trap for, hunts, kills, takes or captures a fur bearing animal in an area of British Columbia unless the person

(b) has written permission of a registered holder of the trapline for that area,

Registration of traplines

42 (1) A regional manager, or a person authorized by the regional manager, may grant registration of a trapline on Crown land to a person who is, or to a group of persons each of whom is,

(2) A person or group of persons must not be granted registration of more than one trapline unless

(b) the person or group of persons has submitted to the regional manager a fur management plan, and

(3) Registration of a trapline or traplines in the name of more than one person creates a tenancy in common.

(4) If a holder of the traplines for which a fur management plan was submitted does not observe the undertakings given in the plan, the regional manager may take action under section 61.

Use of trapline

43 (1) A person must not hold a registered trapline unless the person complies with the regulations and the conditions of his or her licence.

(2) Despite a regulation or a condition of a licence requiring the holder of a trapline to carry on active trapping, the regional manager may authorize the holder of a registered trapline to temporarily discontinue the use or part of the use of the trapline for a period not exceeding 2 years.

Leaving traps set

44 A person who leaves a trap set after the last day of the open season for the trapping of fur bearing animals commits an offence.

Disputes

45 If a dispute arises as to priority of rights respecting any trapline, the matter must, at the request of a party to the dispute, be determined by the regional manager, who may alter, eliminate or reassign part or all of a trapline.

Interference with traps

46 A person who knowingly damages or interferes with a lawfully set trap commits an offence.

Non residents and big game

(ii) a person who holds a permit under section 70 (1) (a) allowing him or her to accompany the hunter.

Compulsory guide outfitter licence

48 (1) A person commits an offence if the person acts as a guide for game, or offers to act as a guide for game, unless the person

(d) accompanies or assists a person to hunt game birds or small game on land other than Crown land.

(2) A person who holds a guide outfitter licence commits an offence if the person employs another person to guide for game and that other person does not hold an assistant guide licence.

(3) A guide outfitter must be present in his or her guide area during substantially all the times when his or her assistant guides are guiding for game.

(4) If a guide outfitter fails to comply with subsection (3), a regional manager may take action under section 61.

Compulsory angling guide licence

49 (1) A person commits an offence if the person acts as a guide for fish, or offers to act as a guide for fish, unless the person

(2) A person who holds an angling guide licence commits an offence if the person employs another person to guide for fish and that other person does not hold an assistant angling guide licence.

(a) be present in one of the regions specified in the angling guide's licence, or

(b) if specific waters or a specific area is authorized in the angling guide's licence, be present on or near those waters or in that area, in the manner specified on the angling guide's licence

during substantially all of the times when assistant angling guides employed by the angling guide are guiding for fish.

(4) If an angling guide fails to comply with subsection (3), a regional manager may take action under section 61.

(5) An angling guide who guides for fish elsewhere than on the waters or in the area authorized by the angling guide's licence commits an offence.

(6) An assistant angling guide who guides for fish elsewhere than on the waters or in the area authorized by the licence of the angling guide employing the assistant angling guide commits an offence.

Applicants to know Act

50 An applicant for a guide outfitter licence must satisfy a regional manager that he or she possesses a working knowledge of this Act and the regulations.

Issue of guide outfitter licence

(b) has held assistant guide licences for 24 months and actively guided during that time, and

(2) A guide outfitter licence authorizes the holder to guide persons to hunt only for those species of game and in the area described in the licence.

Issue of angling guide licences

(b) has public liability insurance and other qualifications prescribed by regulation, and

(2) If the holder of an angling guide licence does not observe the undertakings given by the holder in an angling guide operating plan, the regional manager may take action under section 61.

(3) Until the publication by the Recreational Fisheries Branch of a plan for managing guiding for fish and angling on a stream or lake or in an area of British Columbia, the minister may order the regional manager to restrict the issue of angling guide licences or endorsements for that stream, lake or area to persons who, on the date of the order, hold an angling guide licence or endorsement for that stream, lake or area.

(4) If a plan referred to in subsection (3) for a stream, lake or area specified in an order of the minister is not published within the period of 18 months after the date of the order, the order ceases to have any effect on the expiry of that period.

Restrictions on guiding for fish and angling

53 (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council, by regulation, may do one or more of the following:

(a) limit the number of angling guides permitted to guide for fish on a stream or lake or in an area of British Columbia during a specified period;

(b) limit the number of angler days on which members of a class of persons may be guided for fish on a stream or lake or in an area of British Columbia during a specified period;

on a stream or lake or in an area of British Columbia on any day during a specified period;

(d) limit the number of angler days on which members of a class of persons may angle without a guide on a stream or lake or in an area of British Columbia during a specified period;

(e) provide for the selection of applicants for angler days by a lottery or a booking system or by any other means;

(f) provide for the issue of licences specifying the number of days on which a person may angle on a stream or lake or in an area of British Columbia;

(g) provide for the allocation of angler day quotas to and among angler guides and for the disposal of angler day quotas by auction or tender or any other means;

(h) provide for the suspension, cancellation or variation of an angler day quota;

(i) prohibit or regulate the transfer of an angling licence or angler day quota or both;

(j) prescribe the information and undertakings to be included in an angling guide operating plan;

(k) impose or provide for requirements respecting the use of angler day quotas to ensure that the use of an angler day quota is not restricted to a club or other group of persons.

(2) For the purpose of subsection (1) (e), (g), (h), (i), (j) and (k), the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make different regulations for different classes of streams or lakes or for different areas of British Columbia.

(a) provide for the attachment of an angler day quota to, or for the reduction or cancellation of an angler day quota attached to, an angling guide licence issued before or after this section or the regulation comes into force, and

(b) impose limitations, restrictions and requirements relating to guiding for fish on an angling guide, even though the angling guide's licence was issued before this section or the regulation comes into force.

Issue of assistant guide licence

54 (1) The regional manager or the regional manager's designate may issue a licence to an assistant guide or assistant angling guide who is a citizen of Canada or a permanent resident of Canada and is 19 years of age or older.

(2) A licence of an assistant guide or assistant angling guide is only valid when endorsed with the signature of the guide outfitter or angling guide who employs the assistant guide or assistant angling guide.

Guide reports

(a) immediately after a hunt is concluded, complete and sign a guide report in the form specified by the director,

(b) immediately after signing the completed guide report, give a copy of the report to each hunter guided on the hunt, and

(c) within 10 days after the hunt is concluded, deliver the original of the completed guide report to the regional manager.

Hunters must be licensed

56 (1) A guide who guides a hunter for game commits an offence unless the hunter holds a hunting licence and any other required licence.

(2) A person who guides an angler for fish commits an offence unless the angler holds an angling licence and any other required licence.

Single area

57 A person may be licensed as a guide outfitter for only one guiding area, as described in the person's licence.

Non use of area

58 If a guide outfitter or an angling guide does not guide or states that he or she does not intend to guide hunters or anglers in a year,

(a) the guide outfitter or angling guide may apply to the regional manager for permission to temporarily discontinue or partially discontinue the use of his or her guiding area or the use of the waters or area authorized by his or her angling guide licence, as the case may be, or

(b) the regional manager must review the guide outfitter's or angling guide's operation and, after affording him or her an opportunity to be heard, the regional manager may suspend, cancel or refuse to renew the guide outfitter licence or certificate or both or the angling guide's licence.

Guide outfitter's certificate

59 (1) On application for a guide outfitter's certificate by a person licensed as a guide outfitter, the regional manager may issue a certificate in a form and containing conditions the director may specify granting the holder

(a) the privilege of acting as a guide in the area described in the certificate, and

(2) On each 5th anniversary of the date of issue of a guide outfitter's certificate, the regional manager may issue a new certificate, on application by the guide outfitter, for a period not exceeding 10 years.

Quotas

60 (1) If a regional manager issues a guide outfitter licence, the regional manager may attach a quota as a condition of the licence and may vary the quota for a subsequent licence year.

(2) If a guide outfitter has a quota assigned as a condition of his or her guide outfitter licence and allows his or her clients to kill game to the extent that the number killed exceeds the quota assigned to the guide outfitter, the regional manager may reduce or take away his or her quota for a period and may take action under section 61.

Action if conditions of licence, certificate or registration not fulfilled

61 (1) If a person holds, held within the last year or applies to renew, a guide outfitter's licence, guide outfitter's certificate, assistant guide licence or another licence to guide for game, angling guide licence, assistant angling guide licence, trapping licence, fur trader's licence or registration of a trapline and the person is convicted of an offence under this Act or the regulations or does not comply with the conditions contained in or restrictions imposed on his or her licence, certificate or registration, or for another cause that the regional manager considers reasonable, the regional manager may conduct a hearing to determine whether the person should continue to enjoy the privileges afforded him or her by the licence or certificate or by having the registration and may do one or more of the following:

(a) suspend, cancel or refuse to issue or renew the person's licence, certificate or registration;

(b) amend the licence, certificate or registration to specify a different area in which the person may operate;

(c) in the case of a guide outfitter, amend the licence to further limit the numbers, age and sex of game in respect of which the person may guide;

(d) amend the licence, certificate or registration to require the person to meet other conditions or restrictions that the regional manager considers appropriate;

(e) in the case of an angling guide, reduce or cancel an angler day quota attached to that person's licence.

(2) The person in respect of whom the hearing under subsection (1) is to be conducted must be given reasonable notice of the time and place for the hearing.

(2.1) Notice required by subsection (2) may be given in accordance with section 101 (3).

(3) A hearing conducted under subsection (1) must be held in public unless the minister orders that the hearing be held in private.

(4) If notice of a hearing under subsection (1) is given to the holder of a licence, certificate or registered trapline and the licence or certificate expires or the registration ceases before the regional manager conducts the hearing or makes a determination under that subsection, the regional manager

(b) is not obliged to renew or consider renewal of the licence or certificate or grant registration of the trapline until the earlier of the following:

(i) the end of the 30 day period immediately after the licence or certificate expires or the registration ceases;

(5) Despite subsection (4), if the hearing is delayed at the request of the holder of the licence, certificate or registered trapline, the regional manager is not obliged to consider renewing the licence or certificate or granting the registration of the trapline until the regional manager makes the determination after the hearing is held.

Transfers subject to approval

62 (1) The privileges conferred in a guide outfitter's licence or certificate may not be transferred without the authorization of the regional manager.

(2) Guiding privileges in a portion of a guiding area held under a guide outfitter's licence or certificate may not be transferred without the authorization of the regional manager.

Cancellation of certificate

63 If a guide outfitter's licence is cancelled or if a guide outfitter fails to renew his or her licence or pay an annual fee for more than one year, his or her privileges in and to a guide outfitter's certificate terminate, and the guide outfitter must surrender the guide outfitter's certificate to the regional manager.

Certificate or licence is part of estate

64 (1) A guide outfitter's certificate is part of the estate of the guide outfitter and, subject to the approval of the regional manager, the heirs or administrators of a deceased guide outfitter may transfer, within 2 years after the guide outfitter's death, the privileges conferred by the certificate to a person who qualifies under section 51 for a guide outfitter licence.

(2) An angling guide licence, including any angler day quota attached to it, is part of the estate of the angling guide and, subject to the regulations, the heirs or administrators of a deceased angling guide may transfer, within 2 years after the angling guide's death, the privileges conferred by the angling guide licence and any angler day quota attached to it.

(3) If an annual fee for a guide outfitter licence or an angling guide licence becomes due in the interval between the death of the licence holder and the date of a transfer under this section, no annual fee is payable.

(4) If privileges conferred by a guide outfitter's certificate or an angling guide licence are not transferred in accordance with this section, the heirs or administrators must surrender the guide outfitter's certificate or the angling guide licence, as the case may be, to the regional manager.

Disposal of guiding areas

65 (1) If the privilege of guiding in an area is not assigned in a licence or certificate, the regional manager may designate the area as a guiding area.

(b) a guide outfitter's certificate or licence is surrendered to the government and the regional manager considers that the privilege of guiding in the area described in the certificate or licence should be reassigned,

the privilege of guiding in that area must be advertised for sale by the regional manager and sold by tender or by any other prescribed means to a person qualified to hold a guide outfitter licence.

(3) If the privilege of guiding in an area is not assigned in a licence or certificate and the regional manager considers that the area is not by itself suitable for designation as a guiding area, the regional manager may assign, by amendment to the licence or to the licence and certificate and on payment of the prescribed charge, the privilege of guiding in all or part of that area to any guide outfitter holding a licence or a licence and certificate in respect of an adjoining area.

Single licence only

66 Only one guide outfitter's licence or certificate may be held by a person at one time.

No proprietary rights in wildlife

No cancellation for park

68 The regional manager must not cancel a guide outfitter's licence or certificate or an angling guide's licence because of the establishment of a park under the Park Act, the Protected Areas of British Columbia Act, the Community Charter or the Local Government Act in the area described in the licence or certificate.

Royalties

69 A guide outfitter commits an offence if the guide outfitter fails to pay to the Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations a royalty on an animal taken by a person guided by the guide outfitter, or guided on his or her behalf, in the amount and within the time prescribed by regulation.

Permit in guide area

70 (1) The regional manager may, by issuing a permit containing conditions the regional manager considers suitable, authorize

(a) a resident, who holds a hunting licence and meets the prescribed qualifications, to accompany

as provided in the regulations, while hunting big game, if no remuneration is requested by, offered to or accepted by the permittee, or

(b) a guide outfitter or angling guide to guide in an area other than that endorsed on his or her guide outfitter licence or angling guide licence.

(2) A person commits an offence if the person, without a permit issued under subsection (1), accompanies a non resident or a non resident alien referred to in subsection (1) (a) (i) or (ii) while the non resident or the non resident alien hunts for big game.

Requirement to keep records

71 (1) A taxidermist, a tanner, a fur trader, a meatcutter or an owner or operator of a cold storage plant commits an offence if

(a) he or she fails to keep, in the prescribed manner, a record of the receipt of wildlife or fish or a part of either, or

(b) having received wildlife or fish or a part of either, he or she fails to keep the record referred to in paragraph (a) for a period of 2 years from the time he or she gives up possession of the wildlife or fish or a part of either.

(2) A taxidermist, a tanner, a fur trader, a meatcutter or an owner or operator of a cold storage plant commits an offence if he or she fails

(a) to produce for inspection, on demand by an officer, all wildlife and records in his or her possession, or

(b) to make a full and complete return, as prescribed by regulation, of all wildlife that has been or is in his or her possession for processing, manufacturing, curing, selling or trading.

Fur trader's licence

72 (1) A person commits an offence if the person engages in the business of fur trading unless he or she holds a fur trader's licence.

(2) A regional manager may issue a fur trader's licence to a person who is a citizen of Canada or a permanent resident of Canada.

(3) If a fur trader has more than one established place of business in British Columbia for the purpose of buying, selling or trading in pelts or skins, the fur trader commits an offence if he or she fails to obtain a separate fur trader's licence for each place of business.

(4) A person is not, for the purposes of subsection (1), engaged in the business of fur trading, if the activity as a fur trader is confined to any of the following:

(a) the buying of furs at wholesale from licensed fur traders at public auction;

(b) the buying of pelts of animals raised in captivity from persons lawfully engaged in carrying on the business of breeding fur bearing animals;

Royalties for fur

73 (1) A person commits an offence if the person, having in possession a pelt or skin of a fur bearing animal not raised in captivity and on which a royalty has not already been paid under this section, fails to pay to the Minister of Finance and Corporate Relations a royalty, as prescribed by regulation, on each pelt and skin in his or her possession.

when selling pelts, lawfully taken by him or her, to the holder of a fur trader's licence.

Seizure of pelt or skin

74 A conservation officer or constable may seize a pelt or skin on which he or she believes on reasonable grounds that the royalty payable under section 73 has not been paid.

Accidental killing of wildlife

(a) kills or wounds wildlife, other than prescribed wildlife, by accident or for the protection of life or property, and

(b) does not report promptly to an officer the killing or wounding and the location of the wildlife.

Escape, etc., of captive animal

76 On the escape from captivity or the release or abandonment of an animal that is not a domestic animal, the government acquires the ownership of that animal.

Release or escape of animals

77 (1) A person who releases or abandons an animal or from whose captivity an animal escapes

(a) is, despite section 11 (4) of the Livestock Act, liable to the government for loss or damage to wildlife or wildlife habitat caused by the animal, and for all costs incurred by the government in pursuing, recovering, holding or destroying it, and

(b) is not entitled to any compensation from the government if the animal is destroyed under section 79.

(2) If a person releases or abandons an animal, other than a domestic animal, the person commits an offence.

(3) If an animal, other than a domestic animal, escapes from the possession of a person, the person commits an offence if he or she fails to make every reasonable effort to recover the animal.

(4) This section does not apply if the person is authorized by the regional manager to release the animal.

Dogs hunting game

78 A person commits an offence if the person causes or allows a dog to hunt or pursue

Destruction of animals

79 (1) An officer may kill an animal, other than a domestic animal, that is at large and is likely to harm persons, property, wildlife or wildlife habitat.

Obstructing licensed persons

80 A person commits an offence if the person interferes with or obstructs a person licensed or permitted to capture wildlife or to hunt, fish, guide or trap while that person is lawfully so engaged.

Documents not transferable

81 Except as authorized by regulation or as otherwise provided under this Act, a licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization is not transferable, and a person commits an offence if the person

(a) allows his or her licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization to be used by another person, or

(b) uses another person's licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization.

False statements

82 (1) A person commits an offence if the person knowingly makes a false statement

(a) in order to obtain a licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization,

(b) on a licence or permit issued by him or her under this Act or the regulations,

(d) to an officer engaged in the discharge of his or her duties under this Act or the regulations, if the person is required to provide information under this Act or the regulations.

(2) A licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization is void if it is issued contrary to this Act.

(3) A person commits an offence if the person, without lawful authority, changes or alters a licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization issued under this Act.

(4) A person commits an offence if the person obliterates, alters, imitates or duplicates a stamp, tag, seal, brand, mark or signature that is placed on wildlife or a part of wildlife under this Act or the regulations.

Posting signs and notices

83 (1) An officer may post signs or notices the officer considers necessary or advisable in order to carry out the provisions of this Act.

(2) A person who without lawful authority removes, alters, destroys or defaces a sign or notice posted under this Act commits an offence.

Fines and penalties

84 (1) For the purpose of determining the fines and penalties to which a person is subject on conviction for an offence under this Act or a regulation under this Act,

(i) under section 6.1, 7 (1), 22, 26 (1) (a), (b), (e), (f) or (g), 27 (2), 28 or 82 (1) (a), (b) or (c), (3) or (4), or

(i) under section 7 (5), 9, 17 (7) or (8), 21 (1) or (1.1), 24 (6), (7) or (14), 26 (1) (c) or (d), 27 (1), (3) or (4), 29, 33 (1), 33.1 (1) or (2), 34, 38, 46, 47, 48 (1) or (2), 49 (1), (2), (5) or (6), 56 (1) or (2), 70 (2), 77 (2) or (3), 78, 80, 81, 82 (1) (d), 85 (2) (c) (i) or (ii), 88.1 (7), 95 (2), 96 (1) or 97 (b), or

(c) subsections (5) and (6) apply in relation to any offence under this Act or the regulations that is not referred to in paragraph (a) or (b).

(2) A person who commits an offence referred to in subsection (1) (a) is liable,

(a) on a first conviction, to a fine of not more than $100 000 and not less than $1 000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both, and

(b) on each subsequent conviction for the same offence or another offence referred to in subsection (1) (a), to a fine of not more than $150 000 and not less than $2 000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 18 months, or both.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), a person who commits an offence referred to in subsection (1) (b) is liable,

(a) on a first conviction, to a fine of not more than $50 000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 6 months, or both, and

(b) on each subsequent conviction for the same offence or another offence referred to in subsection (1) (b), to a fine of not more than $100 000 and not less than $1 000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.

(4) Despite subsection (3) (a), if the person referred to in that subsection has previously been convicted of an offence referred to in subsection (1) (a), the person is liable to the punishment set out in subsection (3) (b).

(5) Subject to subsection (6), a person who commits an offence referred to in subsection (1) (c) is liable,

(a) on a first conviction, to a fine of not more than $25 000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding 6 months, or both, and

(b) on each subsequent conviction for the same offence or another offence referred to in subsection (1) (c), to a fine of not more than $50 000 and not less than $500 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.

(6) Despite subsection (5) (a), if the person referred to in that subsection has previously been convicted of an offence referred to in subsection (1) (a) or (b), the person is liable to the punishment set out in subsection (5) (b).

(6.1) In subsections (6.2) to (6.4), “wildlife” includes a part of wildlife.

(6.2) If a thing, other than wildlife, has been seized in relation to an offence under this Act, the Firearm Act or their regulations, the court may

(a) order the thing forfeited to the government, if the court is satisfied that the thing was used in the commission of the offence or possessed in contravention of this Act, the Firearm Act or their regulations, or

(b) deal with the thing in accordance with section 24.2 (4) of the Offence Act and for this purpose section 24.2 (2) and (3) of the Offence Act do not apply.

(6.3) If a person is convicted of an offence under this Act, the Firearm Act or their regulations, the court must order returned to the government any wildlife seized in relation to that offence that has not already been disposed of under section 97.2, 97.3 or 97.6 if the wildlife was

(a) obtained by or used in the commission of that offence, or

(b) possessed in contravention of this Act, the Firearm Act or their regulations.

(6.4) Wildlife returned to the government under subsection (6.3) is to be disposed of as the minister directs.

(7) Nothing in this section limits the application of sections 24 and 84.1 to 84.3 or any other sanctions provided for in this Act or the regulations under this Act.

Creative sentencing

84.1 (1) If a person is convicted of an offence under this Act or the regulations, in addition to any punishment imposed, the court may, having regard to the nature of the offence and the circumstances surrounding its commission, make an order containing one or more of the following prohibitions, directions or requirements:

(a) prohibiting the person from doing any act or engaging in any activity that may, in the opinion of the court, result in the continuation or repetition of the offence;

(b) directing the person to take any action the court considers appropriate to remedy or avoid any harm to the environment or any wildlife, endangered species or threatened species, that resulted or may result from the commission of the offence;

(c) directing the person to pay the government an amount of money as compensation, in whole or in part, for the cost of any remedial or preventive action taken by or caused to be taken on behalf of the government as a result of the commission of the offence;

(e) directing the person to pay an amount of money the court considers appropriate to

(iii) the Grizzly Bear Trust Fund established and administered by the government;

(f) directing the person to post a bond or pay into court an amount of money the court considers appropriate for the purpose of ensuring compliance with any prohibition, direction or requirement under this section;

(g) directing the person to submit to the minister, on application by the minister within 3 years after the date of the conviction, any information respecting the activities of the person that the court considers appropriate in the circumstances;

(h) directing the person to publish, in any manner the court considers appropriate, the facts relating to the commission of the offence;

(i) requiring the person to comply with any other conditions that the court considers appropriate for securing the person's good conduct and for preventing the person from repeating the offence or committing other offences under this Act.

(2) If a person fails to comply with an order referred to in subsection (1) (h) directing the person to publish the facts relating to the commission of an offence, the minister may publish those facts and recover the costs of publication from the person.

(a) an order under this section or section 84.2 directs a person to pay an amount of money as compensation or for any other purpose, or

the amount and any interest payable on that amount constitute a debt due to the government and may be recovered as such in any court of competent jurisdiction.

(4) A person who contravenes an order under this section or section 84.2 commits an offence and is liable to the penalties provided for the offence in relation to which the order was made.

Variation of section 84.1 orders

84.2 (1) An application for variation of an order under section 84.1 may be made to the court that made the order by

(2) Before hearing an application under subsection (1), the court may order the applicant to give notice of the application in accordance with the directions of the court.

(3) On an application under subsection (1), if the court considers variation appropriate because of a change in circumstances, the court may make an order doing one or more of the following:

(b) relieving the person referred to in subsection (1) (b) absolutely or partially from compliance with all or part of the original order;

(d) extending the period for which the original order is to remain in effect, subject to the limit that this extension must not be longer than one year.

(4) If an application under subsection (1) has been heard by a court, no other application may be made in respect of the order under section 84.1 except with leave of the court.

Additional fine

84.3 (1) If a person is convicted of an offence under this Act or the regulations and the court is satisfied that, as a result of the commission of the offence, the person acquired any monetary benefits or that monetary benefits accrued to the person, the court may order the person to pay a fine equal to the court's estimation of the amount of those monetary benefits.

(2) If a person is convicted of an offence under section 22 or an offence prescribed under section 108 (3) (l) (iii) and the court is satisfied that the person was engaged in a commercial enterprise in relation to the commission of the offence and that monetary benefits could have accrued as a result of the commission of that offence, the court may order the person to pay a fine equal to the court's estimation of the amount of those monetary benefits.

(3) A fine under subsection (1) or (2) is in addition to and not in place of a fine under section 84 or an order under section 84.1 or 84.2 directing a person to pay an amount of money as compensation or for any other purpose.

Failure to pay fine

(a) fails to pay, within the time required by law, a fine imposed as a result of the person's conviction for an offence under this Act or the regulations or under the Firearm Act, and

(a) the person's right to apply for or obtain a licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization under this Act is suspended immediately and automatically on the failure to pay the fine,

(b) all licences, permits and limited entry hunting authorizations issued to that person under this Act are cancelled immediately and automatically on the failure to pay the fine, and

(i) applies for, or in any way obtains, a licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization under this Act, or

(ii) does anything for which a licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization under this Act is required.

Officers exempted

86 The offence provisions of this Act and the regulations and section 9 of the Firearm Act do not apply to an officer engaged in the performance of his or her duties.

Arrest

87 A conservation officer or constable may, without a warrant, arrest a person he or she finds committing an offence against this Act or the regulations.

Surrender of firearms

88 (1) A conservation officer or constable may, if he or she has reasonable and probable grounds to believe that by reason of consumption of alcohol a person who is hunting or carrying a firearm is affected in his or her ability to hunt or handle a firearm safely and responsibly, request that person to surrender any firearms in his or her possession and his or her hunting licence.

(2) A conservation officer or constable may, if he or she has reasonable and probable grounds to believe that a person who is hunting or carrying a firearm is affected by a drug in his or her ability to hunt or handle a firearm safely and responsibly, request that person to surrender any firearms in his or her possession and his or her hunting licence.

(3) On a request being made under subsection (1),

(a) the hunting licence of the person is suspended and the person must not hunt or carry a firearm, and

(b) the person must immediately surrender to the conservation officer or constable all firearms in the person’s possession and the person’s hunting licence.

(4) A conservation officer or constable must return the firearms and the licence surrendered under subsection (3) to the person on

(a) the person promptly undergoing a test that indicates his or her blood contains less than 50 mg of alcohol to 100 ml of blood,

(c) the production by the person to the conservation officer or constable of a certificate made by a medical practitioner after the suspension and certifying that the blood of the person contains less than 50 mg of alcohol to 100 ml of blood,

and the suspensions are terminated on the person satisfying the requirements of paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

(5) On a request being made under subsection (2), subsections (3) and (4) (b) apply.

(6) If a person to whom subsection (2) applies satisfies a conservation officer or constable having charge of the matter that his or her ability to hunt or handle a firearm safely and responsibly is not affected by a drug other than alcohol, the suspensions are terminated and the firearms and licence must be returned to the person.

(7) The hunting licence of a person who refuses to surrender his or her licence under this section is invalid for every purpose and is suspended until the expiration of the period of suspension that would otherwise have applied under subsections (4) and (5).

(8) If a person who has been requested to surrender his or her licence under this section does not hold a hunting licence issued under this Act, the person is deemed to be a person whose licence is suspended until the occurrence of an event or the expiry of the time at which, had he or she been the holder of a licence, the conservation officer or constable would have been required to return the licence to him or her under subsection (4), (5) or (6).

Dangerous wildlife protection order

"attractant" means food, food waste, compost or other waste or garbage that could attract dangerous wildlife;

"private dwelling" means a structure used solely as a private residence or a residential accommodation within any other structure.

(2) If a conservation officer believes on reasonable grounds that dangerous wildlife is or may be attracted to any land or premises other than a private dwelling, the conservation officer may, without a warrant, enter and search the land or premises.

(3) If a conservation officer believes on reasonable grounds that the existence or location of an attractant in, on or about any land or premises, other than in a private dwelling, poses a risk to the safety of any person because the attractant is attracting or could attract dangerous wildlife to the land or premises, the conservation officer may issue a dangerous wildlife protection order directing an owner, occupier or person in charge of that land or premises to contain, move or remove the attractant within a reasonable period of time specified in the order.

(4) Despite subsection (3), a dangerous wildlife protection order may not be made in respect of any of the following:

(a) a farm operation, as defined in section 1 of the Farm Practices Protection (Right to Farm) Act, that

(b) a person who is engaging in trapping in accordance with all other applicable provisions of this Act and the regulations;

(c) a facility for the disposal of waste, that is operated in accordance with the Waste Management Act by a municipality, as defined in section 1 (1) of that Act.

(5) A person to whom an order under subsection (3) is expressed to apply must comply with the order within the period of time specified in that order.

(6) For the purpose of ensuring that an order issued under subsection (3) is being, or has been, complied with, a conservation officer may, without a warrant, enter and search the land or premises other than a private dwelling that is affected by the order.

(7) A person commits an offence if the person neglects or refuses to comply with an order in accordance with subsection (5).

Entering premises

89 (1) For the purpose of ensuring that this Act and the regulations are being complied with, an officer may enter and inspect any premises or enclosure in which live wildlife or live fish is kept but, at the request of the owner or occupier, the officer must produce proof of identity.

(2) Despite the Trespass Act, an officer exercising duties under this Act may enter any land, whether enclosed or not but, at the request of the owner or occupier of the land, the officer must produce proof of identity.

Inspection of firearms

90 (1) A person, when requested to do so, for the purposes of this Act or the Firearm Act, by a conservation officer or constable, must immediately produce and permit inspection of a firearm in his or her possession.

(2) A conservation officer or constable may, for the purposes of this Act or the Firearm Act, inspect a firearm found in or on a vehicle or boat.

Inspection of camps

Search warrants

92 On information in the prescribed form and on oath that there is reasonable ground to believe that an animal or fish, or a portion of an animal or fish, killed, taken or possessed in violation of this Act or the regulations, or about to be illegally exported, is located in or on a building or premises, a justice may by a warrant authorize and direct a conservation officer or constable to enter and search the building or premises and to seize and remove an animal or fish, or a portion of it, found, and it may be disposed of as provided in this Act.

Search without warrant

(a) search a person whom he or she believes on reasonable grounds has in his or her possession any wildlife or fish killed, taken or possessed in violation of this Act or the regulations, or about to be illegally exported,

(b) stop and search a motor vehicle, private or chartered aircraft, boat or other conveyance, in or on which he or she believes on reasonable grounds that wildlife or fish is being carried by a person, and

(c) enter and search a shop, public market, storehouse, garage, restaurant, hotel, eating house or camp, in or on which he or she believes on reasonable grounds that wildlife or fish is located.

Seizure

94 (1) A conservation officer or constable may seize wildlife or fish or parts of either wildlife or fish, anything referred to in paragraph (b) and anything found in, on or about a place, building or premises, or in the possession of a person, that might afford evidence of the commission of an offence under this Act or the regulations, if the conservation officer or constable

(a) finds in the possession of a person, or in, on or about a place or thing referred to in section 93, wildlife or fish that the conservation officer or constable believes on reasonable grounds was killed, taken or possessed in violation of this Act or the regulations, or is about to be illegally exported, or

(b) finds firearms, ammunition, decoys, traps, fishing rods or other devices or materials, implements or appliances for hunting or trapping wildlife or for catching fish, that the conservation officer or constable believes on reasonable grounds were held, kept or used for or in connection with a violation of this Act or the regulations.

(2) A conservation officer may seize wildlife or fish, or parts of either wildlife or fish, in a person’s possession if the conservation officer believes on reasonable grounds that the right of property in that wildlife is with the government or remains in the government.

(3) Sections 23 to 24.2 of the Offence Act do not apply in respect of wildlife or fish, or parts of either wildlife or fish, seized under this Act.

Officers empowered to stop vehicles

95 (1) An officer may, for the purposes of this Act, stop a motor vehicle, private or chartered aircraft or boat or other vehicle to determine whether or not the occupants of the vehicle have been hunting, trapping or angling, and to obtain information about wildlife or game fish possessed by them.

(b) fails to identify himself or herself when requested to do so by the officer,

(d) being the driver or operator of a motor vehicle, in or on which there is wildlife or game fish or an article or device that may be used for hunting, trapping or fishing, fails, refuses or neglects to stop his or her motor vehicle when signalled or requested to stop by an officer who is in his or her uniform of office or displays his or her official badge.

Obstructing officers

96 (1) A person who resists or obstructs an officer from exercising his or her duty under this Act commits an offence.

Production of licence or permit

97 If a person who is required to hold a licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization issued under this Act or the regulations

(b) fails or refuses to state his or her name and address to an officer on request,

Definitions

97.1 In sections 97.2 to 98.1:

“responsible official” has the same meaning as in section 24 (1) of the Offence Act;

“wildlife” includes a part of wildlife.

If live wildlife seized

97.2 Despite anything else in this Act, if live wildlife is seized under this Act, a conservation officer may dispose of the wildlife, or have the wildlife disposed of, by returning it to the natural environment if the conservation officer believes on reasonable grounds that the live wildlife is capable of surviving after release.

If perishable wildlife seized

97.3 Despite anything else in this Act, if wildlife is seized under this Act and a conservation officer believes on reasonable grounds that the wildlife may rot, spoil or otherwise perish, the conservation officer may dispose of the wildlife, or have the wildlife disposed of, as the minister directs.

Detention of seized wildlife

97.4 (1) Subject to sections 97.2 and 97.3, wildlife seized under this Act may be detained by the responsible official for no longer than 12 months from the day of seizure unless

(a) a trial, inquiry or hearing under this Act is instituted before the end of that period and the wildlife may be required in that trial, inquiry or hearing,

(b) an order authorizing the continued detention is made on application under subsection (2), or

(2) On application by the responsible official on at least 3 days’ notice to the person from whom the wildlife was seized, a Provincial Court judge may order the continued detention of the wildlife for a specified period, subject to any conditions the judge considers appropriate, if satisfied that

(a) the continued detention might reasonably be required for the purpose of an investigation, trial, inquiry or hearing under this Act, and

(b) it is in the interests of justice to make the order.

(3) If an application under subsection (2) has been made but is not yet decided, the period authorized for detention of the wildlife extends until the application is decided.

(4) A person aggrieved by an order under this section may appeal the order to the Supreme Court and, for the purposes of the appeal, sections 103 to 114 of the Offence Act apply.

Access to wildlife seized and detained as evidence

97.5 (1) On at least 3 days’ notice to the minister, a person may apply to a Provincial Court judge for an order under subsection (2) that the person be permitted to examine wildlife detained under section 97.4.

(2) The judge may make an order that the applicant or a representative of the applicant be permitted to examine the wildlife, but must make the order on terms that the judge considers necessary or desirable to ensure that the wildlife is safeguarded and preserved for any purpose for which it may subsequently be required.

Disposition of wildlife seized and detained as evidence

97.6 (1) This section applies in respect of wildlife detained under section 97.4 if a responsible official determines that the wildlife is not required for law enforcement purposes and gives notice of that determination to the person from whom the wildlife was seized.

(2) The person from whom the wildlife was seized may make an application to a justice on at least 3 days’ notice to the minister.

(3) An application under subsection (2) must be made within 30 days from the date that the person receives notice referred to in subsection (1).

(4) On the hearing of an application under subsection (2), the justice must order that the wildlife be returned

(a) to the person from whom it was seized, if satisfied that the person is lawfully entitled to the wildlife,

(b) to another person, if

(i) satisfied that the person from whom the wildlife was seized is not lawfully entitled to the wildlife but that the other person is, and

(ii) this other person is known, or

(5) A person aggrieved by an order under this section may appeal the order to the Supreme Court and, for the purposes of the appeal, sections 103 to 114 of the Offence Act apply.

(6) Despite anything in this section, wildlife must not be returned or disposed of under this section until the later of the following:

(a) 30 days after an order under subsection (4);

(b) if the order under subsection (4) is appealed, 30 days after the decision on the appeal has been given.

(7) If

(a) a person does not make an application within the time limit under subsection (2), or

(b) wildlife is ordered returned to a person under subsection (4) (a) or (b) and the person does not, within 60 days of that order, take possession of that wildlife,

the wildlife is returned to the government or forfeited to the government, as the case may be, to be disposed of as the minister directs.

Disposition of other property seized

98 If property, other than wildlife, that is seized in relation to an offence under this Act, the Firearm Act or their regulations is ordered returned to a person under section 24.2 (4) (a) or (b) of the Offence Act and the person does not, within 6 months after receiving notice from the responsible official of that order, remove the property from the place specified in the notice, the property is forfeited to the government, to be disposed of as the minister directs.

Detention of other property seized until fine paid

98.1 (1) This section applies if

(a) a person is convicted of an offence under this Act, the Firearm Act or their regulations,

(b) property, other than wildlife, is ordered returned to that person under section 24.2 (4) (a) or (b) of the Offence Act, and

(2) Despite the order under section 24.2 (4) (a) or (b) of the Offence Act, the responsible official must deliver the property referred to in subsection (1) (b) of this section to the minister and the minister may detain the property until the fine is paid.

(3) If the fine is not paid within the time for payment set by the court, the property is forfeited to the government, to be disposed of as the minister directs.

(4) Proceeds of a disposition under subsection (3) must be applied towards payment of the fine referred to in subsection (1) (c).

Section Repealed

Powers of director

100 (1) In addition to other powers given under this Act, the director may do an act or thing that a regional manager is empowered to do.

(2) If the regional manager is satisfied that special circumstances exist, the regional manager may,

(a) if an applicant for an assistant guide licence or assistant angling guide licence or the registration of a trapline meets all the requirements except the age of eligibility, issue or authorize the issue of the licence or the registration of the trapline to the applicant, and

(b) if an applicant for a guide outfitter licence meets all the requirements of section 51 (1) except paragraph (b), issue or authorize the issue of a guide outfitter licence to the applicant.

Reasons for and notice of decisions

101 (1) The regional manager or the director, as applicable, must give written reasons for a decision that affects

(a) a licence, permit, registration of a trapline or guide outfitter's certificate held by a person, or

(2) Notice of a decision referred to in subsection (1) must be given to the affected person.

(3) Notice required by subsection (2) may be by registered mail sent to the last known address of the person, in which case, the notice is conclusively deemed to be served on the person to whom it is addressed on

(b) the date on which the notice was actually received by the person, whether by mail or otherwise,

Appeals to Environmental Appeal Board

101.1 (1) The affected person referred to in section 101 (2) may appeal the decision to the Environmental Appeal Board established under the Environment Management Act.

(a) must be commenced by notice of appeal in accordance with the practice, procedure and forms prescribed by regulation under the Environment Management Act, and

(b) subject to this Act, must be conducted in accordance with the Environment Management Act and the regulations under that Act.

(c) make any decision that the person whose decision is appealed could have made, and that the board considers appropriate in the circumstances.

(6) An appeal taken under this Act does not operate as a stay or suspend the operation of the decision being appealed unless the appeal board orders otherwise.

Commercial vendors of licences

102 Despite the Financial Administration Act, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may

(a) authorize a commercial vendor of licences to retain a prescribed fee or commission for issuing licences, and

Time limit for bringing charges

103 (1) The time limit for laying an information respecting an offence under this Act or the regulations is 2 years after the facts on which the information is based first came to the knowledge of the minister.

(2) A document purporting to have been issued by the minister, certifying the day on which he or she became aware of the facts on which an information is based, is admissible without proof of the signature or official character of the individual appearing to have signed the document and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, is proof of the matter certified.

Liability for offence by employee

104 (1) In a prosecution of a person for an offence under this Act or the regulations, if it is proved that the offence was committed by an employee or agent of the person, whether or not the employee or agent is identified or has been prosecuted for the offence, the person is a party to the offence and is liable to the penalties prescribed for the offence as a principal offender unless the person establishes that the offence was committed without his or her knowledge or consent or that he or she exercised all due diligence to prevent its commission.

(2) Nothing in this section relieves the person who actually committed the offence from liability for it.

Proof of citizenship or residence

105 In a prosecution for an offence under this Act or the regulations, if it is alleged that the defendant was not a Canadian citizen or a resident, the onus is on the defendant to prove that he or she was a Canadian citizen or a resident at the time of the offence.

Wildlife hunted or fish taken in British Columbia

106 In a prosecution under this Act or the regulations, wildlife or fish found in British Columbia is presumed, unless the contrary is proved, to have been hunted or taken in British Columbia.

Certificate evidence and presumptions

107 (1) In a proceeding under this Act or the regulations in which proof is required with regard to

(a) the issue, non renewal, suspension or cancellation of or the suspension of the right to obtain a licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization,

(b) the person who is the licensee or permittee named in a licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization,

(d) the delivery, service, mailing or giving of a notice or document by an official of the government,

a certificate signed by a regional manager certifying as to a matter referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c) or (d) is admissible and is proof of the facts stated in the certificate and of the authority of the regional manager without further proof of his or her appointment or signature.

(2) In a proceeding under this Act or the regulations, a certificate signed by a regional manager stating that wildlife or fish

(a) has been examined by a person qualified to judge and classify wildlife or fish, and

is proof of the facts stated in the certificate and of the authority of the regional manager without further proof of his or her appointment or signature.

(3) The fact that the person charged in an information laid in respect of an offence under this Act or the regulations has the same name as the person who is referred to as being the holder of a licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization in a certificate issued under subsection (1) (b) is proof that the person charged in the information is the holder of the licence, permit or limited entry hunting authorization.

(4) In a proceeding under this Act or the regulations, a certificate relating to the analysis of a thing or a sample, signed by a person who is in charge of a laboratory operated, maintained, supported or certified by the government of Canada, a province, the United States of America or a state of it, is proof of the facts stated in the certificate and of the authority of the person signing the certificate without further proof of his or her appointment or signature.

Notice requirements

107.1 Notice required by section 97.4 (2), 97.6 (1) or 98 may be given in accordance with section 101 (3).

Regulations by Lieutenant Governor in Council

108 (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations referred to in section 41 of the Interpretation Act.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations as follows:

(c) respecting applications for licences, permits and limited entry hunting authorizations, specifying conditions of eligibility for them including proof of financial responsibility or insurance for third party liability and discriminating among classes of applicants for them whether or not the classes are specified in this Act;

(d) prescribing conditions of eligibility including proof of financial responsibility or insurance for third party liability for different classes of licence applicants and for different licences, permits and limited entry hunting authorizations;

(e) prescribing the conditions of a licence and conditions that the director or a regional manager may attach to a licence when he or she issues it to a person;

(f) limiting the number and types of licences and limited entry hunting authorizations that may be held by a person;

(g) prescribing surcharges, royalties and fees, including fees for applications, licences, permits and limited entry hunting authorizations and for the transfer of guiding privileges and a trapline registration, and establishing different surcharges or fees for different classes including, without limitation, classes based on the following:

(h) prohibiting or regulating the trafficking or possession in British Columbia of wildlife or fish or parts of either;

(i) prescribing exceptions to requirements for guides and for guides for fish, defining classes of and prescribing qualification of guides and guides for fish, prescribing rules and conditions that a regional manager may attach to a guide outfitter licence, assistant guide licence, angling guide licence or assistant angling guide licence and prescribing penalties, including the prohibition of a person from guiding or guiding for fish, for contravention of this Act or the regulations;

(k) exempting persons or classes of persons from the application of provisions of this Act or the regulations;

(l) prescribing the maximum number of a species of wildlife, by sex and age, that a person may kill or possess in a period of time and the circumstances in which a person may kill or possess wildlife;

(m) constituting a portion of British Columbia as a wildlife unit, area, district or region with a distinctive name or number;

(o) regulating or prohibiting the types and calibres of firearms or types of projectiles that may be discharged in a prescribed area;

(p) providing for cancellation or suspension of, periods of ineligibility for and periods of suspension of licences for specified offences or combinations of offences, and specifying what is a second or subsequent offence;

(q) specifying lakes, streams or areas of British Columbia for the purpose of requiring a member of a class of persons to hold a licence issued under section 53 (1) (f) to engage in angling in that lake, stream or area;

(r) respecting how notice of a decision may be given for the purposes of section 101.1 (2) (b);

(s) prohibiting or regulating methods and devices for hunting, trapping, capturing or taking wildlife and respecting safety in those activities;

(i) by taxidermists, tanners, meatcutters and operators of cold storage plants of wildlife or fish processed or prepared by them or in their possession, and

(ii) by holders of licences, permits and limited entry hunting authorizations of any matters or activities relating to their licences, permits or authorizations,

(v) requiring wildlife, whether alive or dead, or a part of wildlife to be permanently marked or tagged;

(w) prohibiting or regulating the keeping of wildlife in captivity, and specifying the conditions under which wildlife may be released from captivity;

(x) requiring that a person who captures or kills wildlife take that wildlife or a part of it to a place and report to a member of the staff of the ministry or a person specified by the Lieutenant Governor in Council;

(z) prohibiting or regulating the causing or allowing of a dog to hunt or pursue wildlife.

(3) Without limiting subsection (1), the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations as follows:

(a) controlling the transportation in British Columbia of wildlife or fish or parts of either;

(b) defining methods and devices for trapping and the conditions under which and areas in which trapping may be carried on by a licensed trapper;

(c) providing for the conditions for a person or association to organize or carry on an operation for the purpose of hunting wildlife on property owned or controlled by the person or association and regulating the hunting of wildlife on the property of the person or association;

(d) prescribing the conditions under which boats, aircraft, motor vehicles or snowmobiles may be used for the purpose of hunting, trapping, taking or viewing wildlife or for angling;

(e) specifying open seasons or closed seasons, or both, for a sex, age or species of wildlife;

(f) prescribing the hours of the day or night during which the hunting of wildlife is prohibited or allowed;

(g) respecting the selection, by an auction or other means, of applicants who qualify under section 42 for registration of a trapline;

(h) prescribing restrictions on the manner in which fish caught by angling may be dressed or packed and limits on the amount of fish or fish parts possessed by a person at a place other than at a private residence;

(i) respecting the information and undertakings to be included in fur management plans and requirements for the renewal and amendment of fur management plans;

(j) prescribing licences, permits or stamps that, in addition to an angling licence, must be held to angle for or to catch and retain a designated species of fish or to angle in a designated area of British Columbia;

(k) prescribing tags that must be attached in the prescribed manner to fish caught by angling;

(l) prescribing an offence under a specified provision of this Act, or a regulation under this Act, as an offence for the purposes of

(4) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may delegate a power under subsection (2) or (3) to the minister.

(5) The Lieutenant Governor in Council, despite anything in this Act, may make regulations respecting the issue of permits.

Regulations by the minister

(a) designating employees of the government, by name or by their positions, as officers;

(b) prohibiting, restricting or allowing access by members of the public to designated areas of British Columbia, for the purposes of wildlife management;

(c) with the approval of the minister responsible for the highway or road, for the temporary closure of or for the imposition of restrictions on vehicular access to a highway or road, or part of either, for the purpose of protecting wildlife;

(d) providing, for a regulation made by the minister, that its contravention constitutes an offence.

Application of Offence Act

110 Section 5 of the Offence Act does not apply to this Act or the regulations.

Habitat Conservation Trust Fund

111 (1) The Habitat Conservation Trust Fund is continued as a trust fund, with the minister as trustee of the trust fund.

(2) The minister may make payments out of the trust fund for one or more of the following:

(a) the conservation or enhancement of biological diversity, fish, fish habitat, wildlife or wildlife habitat;

(b) the acquisition and management of land for the conservation or enhancement of a population of a species of fish or wildlife and its habitat;

(c) the furthering, stimulation and encouragement of knowledge and awareness of fish or wildlife and their habitat, or of the trust fund, by way of promotional, educational or other programs;

(d) the reasonable travelling and out of pocket expenses incurred by persons advising the minister on conservation or enhancement matters relating to the trust fund;

(e) administration, services and supplies provided in relation to matters referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) or provided to otherwise manage the trust fund.

(a) surcharges collected on licences or applications for licences issued under this Act or the regulations;

(b) revenue derived from fund raising and the sale of promotional, educational or other materials, goods or services under subsection (2) (c);

(c) money acquired by gift, donation or bequest or by disposition of any land acquired for the purposes of the trust fund;

(d) revenue derived from lands administered by the minister for the benefit of fish or wildlife;

(f) interest calculated on and attributable to the balance in the Habitat Conservation Fund special account established under section 6 of the Special Accounts Appropriation and Control Act;

(4) The Habitat Conservation Trust Fund is not a special fund within the meaning of the Financial Administration Act, but money of the fund is trust funds within the meaning of that Act.

*Contents*
Section
	1	Definitions and interpretation
	2	Property in wildlife
	3	Minister's powers
	4	Power to designate wildlife management areas
	5	Critical wildlife areas and wildlife sanctuaries
	6	Endangered and threatened species
	7	Damage to land set aside for wildlife
	8	Right of action
	9	Damaging beaver dams
	10	Financial responsibility
	11	Hunting and licences
	12	Angling licences
	13	Licences as prescribed
	14	Number of licences limited
	15	Issue of licences
	16	Limited entry hunting authorization
	17	Youth licences
	18	Prescribed course of training
	19	Permits
	20	Permit applications and fees
	21	Import and export of wildlife
	22	Trafficking in wildlife
	23	[Repealed]
	24	Suspension and cancellation of licences
	25	Suspension and cancellation of permits
	26	Hunting, trapping and firearm prohibitions
	27	Use of conveyance
	28	Dangerous hunting or trapping
	29	Attempt to capture wildlife
	30	Swimming wildlife
	31	Shooting across highway
	32	No shooting area
	33	Possession of wildlife
	33.1	Feeding dangerous wildlife
	34	Birds, nests and eggs
	35	Retrieval of wildlife killed
	36	Possession of carcass
	37	Transportation of wildlife
	38	Failure to provide information
	39	Agricultural and cleared land
	40	Power to prohibit hunting or trapping
	41	Prohibition within a trapline
	42	Registration of traplines
	43	Use of trapline
	44	Leaving traps set
	45	Disputes
	46	Interference with traps
	47	Non residents and big game
	48	Compulsory guide outfitter licence
	49	Compulsory angling guide licence
	50	Applicants to know Act
	51	Issue of guide outfitter licence
	52	Issue of angling guide licences
	53	Restrictions on guiding for fish and angling
	54	Issue of assistant guide licence
	55	Guide reports
	56	Hunters must be licensed
	57	Single area
	58	Non use of area
	59	Guide outfitter's certificate
	60	Quotas
	61	Action if conditions of licence, certificate or registration not fulfilled
	62	Transfers subject to approval
	63	Cancellation of certificate
	64	Certificate or licence is part of estate
	65	Disposal of guiding areas
	66	Single licence only
	67	No proprietary rights in wildlife
	68	No cancellation for park
	69	Royalties
	70	Permit in guide area
	71	Requirement to keep records
	72	Fur trader's licence
	73	Royalties for fur
	74	Seizure of pelt or skin
	75	Accidental killing of wildlife
	76	Escape, etc., of captive animal
	77	Release or escape of animals
	78	Dogs hunting game
	79	Destruction of animals
	80	Obstructing licensed persons
	81	Documents not transferable
	82	False statements
	83	Posting signs and notices
	84	Fines and penalties
	84.1	Creative sentencing
	84.2	Variation of section 84.1 orders
	84.3	Additional fine
	85	Failure to pay fine
	86	Officers exempted
	87	Arrest
	88	Surrender of firearms
	88.1	Dangerous wildlife protection order
	89	Entering premises
	90	Inspection of firearms
	91	Inspection of camps
	92	Search warrants
	93	Search without warrant
	94	Seizure
	95	Officers empowered to stop vehicles
	96	Obstructing officers
	97	Production of licence or permit
	97.1	Definitions
	97.2	If live wildlife seized
	97.3	If perishable wildlife seized
	97.4	Detention of seized wildlife
	97.5	Access to wildlife seized and detained as evidence
	97.6	Disposition of wildlife seized and detained as evidence
	98	Disposition of other property seized
	98.1	Disposition of other property seized
	99	[Repealed]
	100	Powers of director
	101	Reasons for and notice of decisions
	101.1	Appeals to Environmental Appeal Board
	102	Commercial vendors of licences
	103	Time limit for bringing charges
	104	Liability for offence by employee
	105	Proof of citizenship or residence
	106	Wildlife hunted or fish taken in British Columbia
	107	Certificate evidence and presumptions
	107.1	Notice requirements
	108	Regulations by Lieutenant Governor in Council
	109	Regulations by the minister
	110	Application of Offence Act
	111	Habitat Conservation Trust Fund

WILDLIFE ACT

[RSBC 1996] CHAPTER 488

Definitions and interpretation

Property in wildlife

Minister's powers

Power to designate wildlife management areas

Critical wildlife areas and wildlife sanctuaries

Endangered and threatened species

Damage to land set aside for wildlife

Right of action

Damaging beaver dams

Financial responsibility

Hunting and licences

Angling licences

Licences as prescribed

Number of licences limited

Issue of licences

Limited entry hunting authorization

Youth licences

Prescribed course of training

Permits

Permit applications and fees

Import and export of wildlife

Trafficking in wildlife

Section Repealed

Suspension and cancellation of licences

Suspension and cancellation of permits

Hunting, trapping and firearm prohibitions

Use of conveyance

Dangerous hunting or trapping

Attempt to capture wildlife

Swimming wildlife

Shooting across highway

No shooting area

Possession of wildlife

Feeding dangerous wildlife

Birds, nests and eggs

Retrieval of wildlife killed

Possession of carcass

Transportation of wildlife

Failure to provide information

Agricultural and cleared land

Power to prohibit hunting or trapping

Prohibition within a trapline

Registration of traplines

Use of trapline

Leaving traps set

Disputes

Interference with traps

Non residents and big game

Compulsory guide outfitter licence

Compulsory angling guide licence

Applicants to know Act

Issue of guide outfitter licence

Issue of angling guide licences

Restrictions on guiding for fish and angling

Issue of assistant guide licence

Guide reports

Hunters must be licensed

Single area

Non use of area

Guide outfitter's certificate

Quotas

Action if conditions of licence, certificate or registration not fulfilled

Transfers subject to approval

Cancellation of certificate

Certificate or licence is part of estate

Disposal of guiding areas

Single licence only

No proprietary rights in wildlife

No cancellation for park

Royalties

Permit in guide area

Requirement to keep records

Fur trader's licence

Royalties for fur

Seizure of pelt or skin

Accidental killing of wildlife

Escape, etc., of captive animal

Release or escape of animals