4th Session, 42nd Legislature

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Bill 22

THE ENVIRONMENT AMENDMENT ACT (PESTICIDE RESTRICTIONS)

(Assented to                                         )

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

C.C.S.M. c. E125 amended

1

The Environment Act is amended by this Act.

2

Section 40.4 is repealed.

3

Section 40.5 is amended by renumbering it as subsection 40.5(1) and adding the following as subsection 40.5(2):

Prohibiting pesticide use on public green spaces

40.5(2)

No person shall use or cause or permit the use of a prescribed pesticide in, on or over

(a) a municipal playground, picnic area or dog park; or

(b) a provincial park as defined in The Provincial Parks Act.

4

Section 40.6 is amended, in the part before clause (a), by striking out "Sections 40.4 and 40.5" and substituting "The prohibitions in section 40.5".

5

Section 40.7 is repealed.

6

Section 40.8 is amended by striking out "Sections 40.4, 40.5 and 40.7" and substituting "The prohibitions in section 40.5".

7

Section 40.9 is amended

(a) by repealing clause (b); and

(b) in clause (e), by striking out "sections 40.4 to 40.8" and substituting "sections 40.5, 40.6 and 40.8".

8

Subsection 40.10(1) is amended

(a) in the part before the definitions, by striking out "sections 40.4 to 40.9" and substituting "sections 40.5 to 40.9"; and

(b) by repealing the definitions "lawn" and "sell".

9

Subsection 40.10(2) is amended by striking out "section 40.5" and substituting "subsection 40.5(1)".

Coming into force

10

This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.