O. Reg. 87/17: HUNTING

 

ontario regulation 87/17

made under the

Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act, 1997

Made: March 8, 2017
Filed: March 30, 2017
Published on e-Laws: March 30, 2017
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: April 15, 2017

Amending O. Reg. 665/98

(HUNTING)

1. (1) Subsection 25 (2) of Ontario Regulation 665/98 is revoked and the following substituted:

(2) Except as otherwise provided in this Regulation, a person shall not hunt a species of game wildlife unless the person hunts the species,

(a) in an area specified for the species in a Table;

(b) during the open season applicable to the person and to the area, as specified in the Table; and

(c) of the age and sex specified in the Table, if any.

(2) Subsection 25 (3) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “small game” and substituting “small game or game amphibian”.

2. Subsection 29 (3) of the Regulation is revoked.

3. Section 30 of the Regulation is revoked.

4. The heading to Part VII of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

PART VII
FROGS

5. (1) Subsection 36 (2) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

(2) Despite section 2, a person who is licensed to sport fish under Ontario Regulation 664/98 (Fish Licensing) may hunt for bullfrogs and northern leopard frogs.

(2) Subsections 36 (5), (6) and (7) of the Regulation are revoked.

6. Section 37 of the Regulation is revoked.

7. Section 38 of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

38. Despite section  25 (5), a person shall not hunt frogs in that part of Nogies Creek, in the townships of Galway and Harvey in the County of Peterborough, lying south of the dam at the southerly extremity of Bass Lake in the Township of Galway, and lying within lots 9 and 10 in Concession I and Lot 9 in Concession II in the Township of Galway and lots 27, 28, 29 and 30 in Concession XVII and lots 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32 in Concession XVI in the Township of Harvey.

8. Section 39 of the Regulation is revoked.

9. Clause 79 (1) (a) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

(a) a shotgun, including a muzzle-loading shotgun of at least 20 gauge but not larger than 10 gauge, loaded with shot sizes number 4, 5, 6 or 7; or

10. Section 85 of the Regulation is revoked.

11. (1) Subsection 89 (2) of the Regulation is revoked.

(2) Subsection 89 (3) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “or (2)” in the portion before clause (a).

(3) Subsection 89 (4) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “or (2)”.

(4) Subsection 89 (6) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “Item 5” and substituting “Item 8”.

Commencement

12. This Regulation comes into force on the later of April 1, 2017 and the day it is filed.