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Hunting Regulation B.C Wildlife Act HUNTING REGULATION B.C. Reg. 190/84 Deposited and effective June 15, 1984 Last amended April 22, 2021 by B.C. Reg. 112/2021 Consolidated Regulations of British Columbia This is an unofficial consolidation. Consolidation current to September 9, 2021 B.C. Reg. 190/84 (O.C. 1109/84), deposited and effective June 15, 1984, is made under the Wildlife Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 488, s. 108. This is an unofficial consolidation provided for convenience only. This is not a copy prepared for the purposes of the Evidence Act. This consolidation includes any amendments deposited and in force as of the currency date at the bottom of each page. See the end of this regulation for any amendments deposited but not in force as of the currency date. Any amendments deposited after the currency date are listed in the B.C. Regulations Bulletins. All amendments to this regulation are listed in the Index of B.C. Regulations. Regulations Bulletins and the Index are available online at www.bclaws.ca. See the User Guide for more information about the Consolidated Regulations of British Columbia. The User Guide and the Consolidated Regulations of British Columbia are available online at www.bclaws.ca. Prepared by: Office of Legislative Counsel Ministry of Attorney General Victoria, B.C. Consolidation current to September 9, 2021 Wildlife Act HUNTING REGULATION B.C. Reg. 190/84 Contents Division 1 – Interpretation 1 Definitions and interpretation 1 2 Serial numbers inclusive 4 3 Province divided into regions 4 Division 2 – Open Seasons 4 Open seasons 4 5 When open seasons not in effect 5 6 Restrictions on open seasons 5 Division 3 – Bag and Possession Limits 7 Restrictions on bag limits 5 8 No bag limit 5 9 Examples of bag and possession limits 5 10 Offence – area 5 11 Offence – species or type of animal 6 12 Offence – limits exceeded 6 13 – 13.6 [Repealed] 7 13.7 Offence – protected wildlife 7 Division 4 – Shooting Hours 14 Prohibited hours for hunting 7 Division 5 – Possession of Carcass 15 Possession of carcass 8 Division 6 – Compulsory Inspection and Reporting 16 Compulsory inspection 9 16.1 Compulsory reporting 12 16.2 Exception – supervising hunter 13 Division 7 – Hunting Methods 17 Offence – weapons 13 17.1 Offence – drones 15 18 Offence – general 15 Division 8 – Hunting Restrictions in Parks 19 Hunting restrictions in parks 17 Consolidation current to September 9, 2021 SCHEDULE 1 – REGION 1 – VANCOUVER ISLAND 32 SCHEDULE 2 – REGION 2 – LOWER MAINLAND 42 SCHEDULE 3 – REGION 3 – THOMPSON-NICOLA 48 SCHEDULE 4 – REGION 4 – KOOTENAY 54 SCHEDULE 5 – REGION 5 – CARIBOO 63 SCHEDULE 6 – REGION 6 – SKEENA 71 SCHEDULE 7 – REGION 7 – OMINECA-PEACE 85 SCHEDULE 8 – REGION 8 – OKANAGAN 106 SCHEDULE 9 – MAPS 111 Consolidation current to September 9, 2021 Wildlife Act HUNTING REGULATION B.C. Reg. 190/84 Division 1 – Interpretation Definitions and interpretation 1 (1) In this regulation: “Act” means the Wildlife Act; “antlerless animal” means a member of the deer family bearing no visible bony antlers and, for the purposes of this definition, the small skin or hair covered protuberances on male fawns and calves are not antlers; “bait” means any thing, including meat, cereal, cultivated crops, a restrained animal or any manufactured product or material, that may attract wildlife, but does not include a decoy; “bearded turkey” means a turkey with a tuft of hair-like feathers that grow larger with age, and are found on the chest of the turkey; “brow palm”, in relation to an antler of a moose, means the lateral branch that is separated from a main palm by the deepest antler bay, and for the purposes of this definition the deepest antler bay is the antler bay whose vertex is the shortest distance from the antler base when measured along the surface of the antler; “brow tine” means the first lateral branch, of an antler of deer, elk, moose or caribou, that projects forward and occurs in the lower one third of the antler; “buck” or “bull” with reference to deer, moose or elk means one bearing visible bony antlers, but does not include a calf; “buck” or “bull” with reference to caribou means a male bearing visible bony antlers, but does not include a calf; “calf” in reference to a moose, elk or caribou means one that is less than 12 months of age; “compound crossbow” means a crossbow on which the bow string passes through a series of pulleys; “cougar kitten” means a spotted cougar, or a cougar less than one year of age, as determined by the regional manager or designate; “decoy” means a material or manufactured product that simulates the appearance or has the form of wildlife; “feral pig” has the same meaning as in section 3.2 (1) of the Designation and Exemption Regulation, B.C. Reg. 168/90; “full curl bighorn ram mountain sheep” means any male bighorn mountain sheep, (a) the head of which, when viewed squarely from the side, has at least one horn tip extending upwards beyond a straight line drawn through the centre of the nostril and the lowest hindmost portion of the horn base, or Last amended April 22, 2021 1 Consolidation current to September 9, 2021 B.C. Reg. 190/84 WILDLIFE ACT HUNTING REGULATION (b) the skull and horns of which are presented for examination, and which, when viewed squarely from the side with both horns in alignment, have at least one horn tip extending upwards beyond a straight line drawn through the lowest hindmost portion of the horn base and the lowermost edge of the eye socket; “full curl thinhorn ram mountain sheep” means any thinhorn ram mountain sheep that has attained the age of 8 years as evidenced by true horn annuli as determined by the regional manager or designate, or whose horn tip, when viewed squarely from the side at right angles to the sagittal plane of the skull, extends dorsally beyond the nose bridge plane; “horizontal plane” means the surface intersecting the ventral posteriormost portion of the base of the left and right horns, the ventral portion of the most complete eye-socket retained with the skull and that is at right angles to the sagittal plane; “infrared optics” means an optical device with the capacity to detect infrared radiation; “kid” means a mountain goat with horns that are less than 100 mm in length; “lateral plane” means the surface intersecting the ventral anteriormost portion of the most complete eye-socket retained with the skull and that is at right angles to the sagittal and horizontal planes; “licence year” means the period April 1 to March 31 next following; “management unit” or “M.U.” means an area designated as a management unit by B.C. Reg. 64/96, the Management Unit Regulation; “mature bighorn ram mountain sheep” means any bighorn ram mountain sheep whose horn tip, when viewed squarely from the side at right angles to the sagittal plane of the skull, extends dorsally beyond the nose bridge plane; “migratory game bird” means a migratory game bird as defined in the Migratory Birds Convention Act, 1994 (Canada); “non-toxic shot” means shotgun pellets consisting of, by weight, not more than one percent lead; “nose bridge plane” means a plane perpendicular to the sagittal plane that includes the anterior and posterior points of the suture joining the left and right nasal bones where they meet the dorsal surface of those bones; “plane” means a surface such that the straight line that joins any 2 of its points lies wholly in that surface; “possession limit” means the maximum number of a species or type of wildlife which a person may have in the person’s possession while hunting or returning from hunting, except for migratory game birds where the possession limit applies at all times; “power boat” means a boat, canoe or yacht powered by electric, gasoline, oil, steam or other mechanical means, but does not include a boat powered manually nor a 2 Last amended April 22, 2021 Consolidation current to September 9, 2021 WILDLIFE ACT B.C. Reg. 190/84 HUNTING REGULATION boat with an outboard motor provided the motor is tilted or otherwise disengaged so as not to be ready for immediate use; “sagittal plane” means the surface by which the skull is divided equally into left and right sides; “spike buck” means a male deer having antlers that are composed of a main beam from which there are no bony projections greater than 2.54 cm (1 inch) in length; “spike bull” means a bull elk having antlers that are composed of a main beam from which there are no bony projections greater than 2.5 cm in length; “three quarter curl bighorn ram mountain sheep” means any male bighorn mountain sheep, (a) the head of which, when viewed squarely from the side, has at least one horn tip extending beyond a straight line drawn through the back of the eye opening and at right angles to a line drawn between the centre of the nostril and the lowest hindmost portion of the horn base, or (b) the skull and horns of which are presented for examination, and which, when viewed squarely from the side with both horns in alignment, has at least one horn tip extending beyond a straight line drawn through the back edge of the eye socket and at right angles to a line drawn through the lowest hindmost portion of the horn base and the lowermost edge of the eye socket; “tine” or “point” means the branch of an antler which is longer than its breadth and is at least 2.5 cm (1 inch) in length, and for the purpose of determining the length of a tine (a) the breadth of the tine is measured (if extending from a palmation of an antler, then in the plane of the palm) at a location at least 2.5 cm (1 inch) from the tip of the tine, and (b) the length of the tine is measured from its tip end, following the midline of the profile of the tine, and following the natural curvature of the tine, to the midpoint of the straight line along which the breadth is measured; “vehicle” means a wheeled or tracked device in, on or by which a person or thing is or may be transported or drawn on a highway; “wireless camera” means a camera that obtains an image by means of a remote or infrared sensor and that is capable of sending an image remotely to an electronic device.
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