Ecological Reserve Regulation (BC Reg 196/2023).

The Regulations establish restrictions on entry, use and occupation of Ecological Reserve; a person must not enter, use or occupy an ecological reserve unless authorized by a permit issued under section 5.1 (1) of the Act. A person may, without a permit, enter and travel in or through, by foot or by non‑motorized boat, an ecological reserve other than an ecological reserve set out in the Schedule. Application for a permit is regulated by Regulation 4.
Regulation 6 establishes that person must not do or attempt to do any of the following in an ecological reserve: (a) prospect or explore for, or extract, coal, petroleum or natural gas; (b) drill for or divert water or dam a waterway. A person must not do or attempt to do any of the following unless authorized to do so under a permit issued under section 5.1 (1) of the Act: (a) introduce a plant or animal species in an ecological reserve; (b) operate a vehicle or a motorized boat, or conduct a take‑off or landing of an aircraft or a drone, in an ecological reserve; (c) deposit waste in an ecological reserve; (d) allow or cause waste to flow onto or seep into land in an ecological reserve or to flow or seep into water in an ecological reserve; (e) allow or cause waste to be emitted into the air from within an ecological reserve; (f) mine or quarry earth, soil, peat, marl, sand, gravel, rock or another mineral resource in an ecological reserve; (g) make an alteration to land on or beneath its surface in an ecological reserve; (h) damage, destroy or take a sample of a natural resource in, or remove a natural resource from, an ecological reserve; (i) disturb an animal in an ecological reserve; (j) hunt or trap in, catch fish in, or take fish or wildlife from, an ecological reserve; (k) touch or feed wildlife in an ecological reserve or entice wildlife in an ecological reserve to approach by any means, including by holding out or setting out a decoy, lure, food or bait or by using a wildlife caller; (l) light, fuel or use a fire in an ecological reserve; (m) allow a domesticated animal to graze in an ecological reserve; (n) cut or fell timber in an ecological reserve; (o) construct or modify a road or trail in an ecological reserve; (p) camp in an ecological reserve; (q) establish, construct or modify a building or other structure in an ecological reserve; (r) smoke cannabis, or hold lighted cannabis, in an ecological reserve; (s) use or hold, in an ecological reserve, an activated e‑cigarette that is vapourizing cannabis; (t) smoke tobacco, or hold lighted tobacco, in an ecological reserve; (u) use or hold, in an ecological reserve, an activated e‑cigarette that is vapourizing an e‑substance other than cannabis.