Enforcement of natural resource acts to be simplified The Natural Resource Compliance Act introduced today will make it easier for compliance and enforcement officers to hold offenders accountable for violating natural resource legislation. If passed, the act will establish one designation, “natural resource officer”, which will allow officers to enforce a broader range of legislation across the natural resource sector.
Currently, officers do not have the authority to enforce acts other than the ones they have been specifically designated to uphold. BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Press Release – October 18, 2011
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