Acts and Regulations

F-14.1 - Fish and Wildlife Act

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Location of traps and snares
47.1(1)Subject to subsections 34(4), (4.1) and (7) and subsection (2), every person other than a conservation officer or assistant conservation officer who at any time sets or places a trap or snare, other than a trap or snare set or based in water, within three hundred metres of a dwelling, school, playground, athletic field, dump or place of business commits an absolute liability offence.
47.1(2)When authorized to trap or snare wildlife by a licence issued under this Act or the regulations the owner or occupant of a dwelling or a person designated by the owner or occupant may set or place a trap or snare within three hundred metres of that dwelling if the location of that trap or snare is more than three hundred metres from another dwelling, school, playground, athletic field, dump or place of business.
1983, c.33, s.14; 1986, c.38, s.3; 1993, c.24, s.2; 1997, c.1, s.13; 2004, c.12, s.35; 2012, c.35, s.7
Location of traps and snares
47.1(1)Subject to subsections 34(4) and (7) and subsection (2), every person other than a conservation officer or assistant conservation officer who at any time sets or places a trap or snare, other than a trap or snare set or based in water, within three hundred metres of a dwelling, school, playground, athletic field, dump or place of business commits an absolute liability offence.
47.1(2)When authorized to trap or snare wildlife by a licence issued under this Act or the regulations the owner or occupant of a dwelling or a person designated by the owner or occupant may set or place a trap or snare within three hundred metres of that dwelling if the location of that trap or snare is more than three hundred metres from another dwelling, school, playground, athletic field, dump or place of business.
1983, c.33, s.14; 1986, c.38, s.3; 1993, c.24, s.2; 1997, c.1, s.13; 2004, c.12, s.35