127ZZI   Conservation brokers

(1)  The regulations may make provision for or with respect to conservation brokers.

(2)  For the purposes of this section, a conservation broker is a person who provides, or offers to provide, any of the following services (whether or not for fee or reward):

(a)  the identification of potential biobank sites or management actions,

(b)  the negotiation of a biobanking agreement on behalf of a land owner,

(c)  assistance with an application for registration of a biodiversity credit or an application for a biobanking statement,

(d)  assistance with buying or selling biodiversity credits,

(e)  any other service in connection with the biobanking scheme that is prescribed by the regulations for the purposes of this definition.

(3)  Without limiting subsection (1), the regulations may:

(a)  provide for the accreditation of persons as conservation brokers, including by specifying matters that may be taken into consideration in determining whether a person (whether or not an individual) is a fit and proper person to be accredited as a conservation broker, and

(b)  exempt any person or class of persons from those requirements, and

(c)  prohibit any person from holding himself or herself out to be a conservation broker, or advertising a service of a kind referred to in subsection (2), unless accredited.