Crown Lands Act (Chapter 53).

This Act concerns the administration of Crown lands, allowing for the granting of Forest Management Licences (or Timber Licences) to a defined series of persons (holders of pulp and paper licences, purchasers of licences at public auctions or by tender, builders and operators of mills for the manufacture of forest products, etc.). Licences may be for all or only certain specified species or products and may have various duration periods. Licencees of one or more timber licences which contain in total more than 100 sq. miles shall submit a forest management plan to the Minister of Natural Resources which will have to be complied with. Fees and charges for licences shall be determined by future regulation. Timber licences are not renewable for more than one year if they pertain to an area larger than that which, in the opinion of the Minister, is sufficient to supply the licencee's reasonable requirements for primary forest products on a sustained yield basis. Licencees are required to submit annual statements of all operations made under the licence, penalty the withdrawal of the licence. Property rights to any lumber cut (defined as "trees, logs, bark, timber, pulpwood and wood of every and any description") shall vest in the Crown until appropriate royalties or stumpage are paid, otherwise the Minister has the right to sell the lumber. The Schedule contains detailed conditions (pursuant to section 49 of this Act) regarding the conditions for the sale of timber licences by the Minister. For example, all timber cut under licence shall be manufactured in Canada into merchantable pulp or paper, or into sawn lumber, woodenware utensils, or other articles of commerce.

Implemented by: Forest Reserve Timber Regulation - Crown Lands Act (N.B. Reg. 76-76). (1976-04-28)
Repealed by: Crown Lands and Forests Act (S.N.B. 1980, c. C-38.1). (2014-05-01)