Groundwater Catchment Regulation (R. Q. c. Q-2, r.6).

The object of this Regulation is to: 1) promote the protection of groundwater intended for human consumption ; and 2) govern groundwater catchment in order to prevent the catchment of that water by an owner or operator from causing abusive nuisance to its neighbours, and 3) to minimize the negative impacts from the catchment on watercourses and bodies of water, on the persons entitled to use them and on the ecosystems associated with those watercourses and bodies of water.The text consists of 65 sections divided into 8 Parts as follows: Obejct (I); Catchment works (II); Protection areas (III); Groundwater catchment subject to the minister's authorization (IV); Particular areas (V); Drilling (VI); Penal (VII); Transitional and final (VIII). Two Schedules are enclosed.