ontario regulation 351/04

made under the

Fish and wildlife conservation act, 1997

Made: November 3, 2004
Filed: November 4, 2004
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: November 20, 2004

Amending O. Reg. 664/98

(Fish Licensing)

1. Section 1 of Ontario Regulation 664/98 is amended by adding the following definition:

“e-licence” means a component of a sport fishing licence that is obtained by the holder through the Ministry web site;

2. Subsections 2 (2) and (3) of the Regulation are revoked and the following substituted:

(2) A person may obtain an e-licence if the person,

(a) possesses a fishing outdoors card, a temporary fishing outdoors card or a combined hunting/fishing outdoors card; or

(b) has renewed an outdoors card described in clause (a) but has not yet received it.

(3) The following constitute a valid sport fishing licence:

1. A fishing outdoors card or a temporary fishing outdoors card issued under section 3 with the appropriate validation tag affixed to the card.

2. A combined hunting/fishing outdoors card issued under Ontario Regulation 665/98 (Hunting) made under the Act with the appropriate validation tag affixed to the card.

3. An e-licence accompanied by a fishing outdoors card or a combined hunting/fishing outdoors card containing the same 15 digit number as the e-licence or by a temporary fishing outdoors card or a temporary combined hunting/fishing outdoors card containing the same personal information under which the e-licence was obtained.

4. During the period between an application for the renewal of a fishing outdoors card or a combined hunting/fishing outdoors card and the receipt of the new outdoors card, an e-licence accompanied by an expired outdoors card containing the same 15 digit number as the e-licence or by an expired temporary fishing outdoors card or temporary combined hunting/fishing outdoors card containing the same personal information under which the e-licence was obtained.

3. Subsections 3 (1) and (2) of the Regulation are revoked and the following substituted:

(1) A fishing outdoors card, temporary fishing outdoors card or an e-licence may be issued to an applicant who is a resident or a Canadian resident.

(2) The holder of a fishing outdoors card or a temporary fishing outdoors card who ceases to be a Canadian resident is not eligible to obtain,

(a) a permit or validation tag for that card; or

(b) an e-licence using that card.