Migratory Bird Sanctuary Regulations (C.R.C., c. 1036)

Regulations are current to 2012-05-14

  • 10. (1) No person shall, in a migratory bird sanctuary, carry on any activity that is harmful to migratory birds or the eggs, nests or habitat of migratory birds, except under authority of a permit.

  • (2) A permit referred to in subsection (1) may be issued

    • (a) by the Minister, where the sanctuary is situated on land owned by Her Majesty in right of Canada; or

    • (b) by the chief game officer of a province, where the sanctuary is situated on land owned by Her Majesty in right of the province.

  • (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), “chief game officer of a province” means the chief or director of an agency of the province concerned with the administration of a wildlife Act of the province.

11. Notwithstanding anything in these Regulations,

  • (a) any waterfowl hunter may transport his unloaded firearm through the Grand Manan Bird Sanctuary by means of the secondary road that leaves the main highway at Mark Hill and runs across Lot No. 76;

  • (b) any waterfowl hunter may transport unloaded firearms and other hunting appliances through Île-au-Héron Bird Sanctuary when hunting for waterfowl is lawful in the district within which that Sanctuary is located;

  • (c) any waterfowl hunter may transport unloaded firearms and other hunting appliances through the Wavy Creek section of the Moose River Migratory Bird Sanctuary adjacent to Shipsands Island;

  • (d) any person who is the holder of, or eligible for, a general hunting licence for the Northwest Territories may carry a firearm within any migratory bird sanctuary lying north of the 60th parallel of north latitude for the purpose of taking fur-bearing animals, big game or sea mammals in accordance with that licence;

  • (e) any person herding reindeer may use dogs for the purpose of retrieving any reindeer that stray into the Kendall Island Bird Sanctuary or the Anderson River Delta Bird Sanctuary; or

  • (f) any person herding reindeer may allow those reindeer to pass through the Anderson River Delta Bird Sanctuary to and from the Nicholson Peninsula at 65°55′ north latitude and 129° west longitude.