These regulations aim to control the spread of purple loosestrife. They let the Minister of Agriculture and Forestry run education and control programs, and they prohibit most people from importing, propagating, selling, or collecting purple loosestrife from wild stands for propagation.
c t WEED CONTROL ACT PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE CONTROL REGULATIONS PLEASE NOTE This document, prepared by the Legislative Counsel Office, is an office consolidation of this regulation, current to February 1, 2004. It is intended for information and reference purposes only. This document is not the official version of these regulations. The regulations and the amendments printed in the Royal Gazette should be consulted on the Prince Edward Island Government web site to determine the authoritative text of these regulations. For more information concerning the history of these regulations, please see the Table of Regulations on the Prince Edward Island Government web site (www.princeedwardisland.ca). If you find any errors or omissions in this consolidation, please contact: Legislative Counsel Office Tel: (902) 368-4292 Email: legislation@gov.pe.ca Weed Control Act Purple Loosestrife Control Regulations Section 1 c WEED CONTROL ACT Chapter W-2.1 PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE CONTROL REGULATIONS Pursuant to section 14 of the Weed Control Act Stats. P.E.I. 1987, c.70, Council made the following regulations: 1. Purpose The purpose of these regulations is to control the spread of purple loosestrife in the province. (EC629/91) 2. Powers of Minister The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry may (a) establish and implement an education program to advise the public and, in particular, home gardeners of the threat that purple loosestrife constitutes to native wetland and wetland vegetation; (b) implement a control program to destroy purple loosestrife by removal and burning or, where physical removal is impractical, by the application of herbicides. (EC629/91; 639/93; 699/00) 3. Offences (1) It is an offence for any person (a) to import, propagate or sell purple loosestrife or any variety or species of the genus Lythrum; (b) to collect purple loosestrife or any variety or species of the genus Lythrum from wild stands for the purpose of propagation. Exception (2) Clause (1)(b) does not apply to a recognized research establishment. (EC629/91) c t Updated February 1, 2004 Page 3