BILL NO. 129

(as introduced)

2nd Session, 61st General Assembly
Nova Scotia
59 Elizabeth II, 2010

Private Member's Bill

Wilderness Areas Protection Act
(amended)

Jamie Baillie
Cumberland South

First Reading: December 3, 2010

(Explanatory Notes)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Clause 1 allows for off-highway vehicle use on existing trails within a designated wilderness area and requires that management plans for wilderness areas be enacted and adopted within twelve months of this Bill receiving Royal Assent.

Clause 2 allows persons holding renewable leases and licences to access camps or cottages to renew those leases and licences.

23A (1) Off-highway vehicles must be permitted on traditional roads, routes and trails within wilderness areas designated pursuant to subsection (2).

(2) The Minister shall cause public consultations to be held with the persons and stakeholders who use, or reside within the region of, a wilderness area to

(a) determine the number and location of

(i) traditional roads, routes and trails, and

(ii) camps and cottage leases;

(b) develop a management plan for each wilderness area; and

(c) designate traditional roads, routes and trails for use by off-highway vehicles.

(3) The management plan developed pursuant to subsection (2) must be enacted and adopted within twelve months of this Section coming into force.

(4A) A person holding a renewable lease or licence to access a camp in a wilderness area is entitled to renew that lease or licence.