How will licensing legislation affect other existing legislation?
The 1957 OPFA legislation has been replaced by the new Act, the Professional Foresters Act, 2000. Section 54 (3) of the new Act specifies that when there appears to be any conflict between this Act and the Crown Forest Sustainability Act, the latter shall prevail. The new Act causes the new definition of professional forester to be substituted into the Crown Forest Sustainability Act. The new Act relates to the authority of the Ontario Professional foresters Association to regulate the practice of professional forestry in Ontario. It does not provide the Association or its members with authority relative to the determination of silvicultural standards. The determination of these standards remains the authority of the landowner and in the case of Crown land, the Crown. Bill 110 has no labour relations provisions.
