Appointments
7(1)The Minister may appoint
(a)
persons employed within the Department, and
(b)
other persons considered by the Minister to be suitable,
to be conservation officers, who shall attend to the enforcement of this Act and the regulations in accordance with the powers conferred upon them by this Act and the regulations.
7(1.1)The Minister may appoint persons performing a similar function in another jurisdiction to be conservation officers, but the appointment shall only be made for the purpose of a special investigation.
7(1.2)Persons appointed under subsection (1.1), during the period for which they are appointed, shall attend to the enforcement of this Act and the regulations in accordance with the powers conferred upon them by this Act and the regulations.
7(2)The Minister may appoint
(a)
persons who are employed within the Department,
(b)
persons who have volunteered their services to the Minister and who have been nominated for such purpose by a lessee, a conservation association, a fish or wildlife association, a riparian association, or a private owner of riparian angling rights in New Brunswick, or
(c)
other persons considered by the Minister to be suitable,
to be assistant conservation officers, who shall attend to the enforcement of this Act and the regulations in accordance with the powers conferred upon them by this Act and the regulations.
7(3)The following persons are
ex officio conservation officers under this Act:
(a)
members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police;
(b)
police officers appointed pursuant to the
Police Act;
(c)
fishery officers designated under the
Fisheries Act (Canada);
(d)
members of the Canadian Forces while engaged in lawful military police duties;
(e)
game officers designated under the
Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994 (Canada); and
(f)
wildlife protection officers appointed for the purposes of the
Act respecting the conservation and development of wildlife (Quebec), while in the course of performing their duties in respect of angling, in an area consisting of a portion of the boundary waters of the Patapedia River, not including its tributaries, from the One Mile Post at the border between the Province of New Brunswick and the Province of Quebec, downriver on the boundary waters of the Restigouche River, to the J. C. Van Horne Bridge.
1981, c.28, s.1; 1983, c.33, s.2; 1986, c.8, s.48; 1987, c.21, s.3; 1987, c.N-5.2, s.21; 1988, c.67, s.4; 1992, c.2, s.24; 2004, c.12, s.4; 2008, c.49, s.3