(1) In this section,
"existing interest" means any authority, authorisation, permit, lease, licence
or occupancy.
(2) Except as provided by this Act, the reservation of lands
as, or as part of, a state conservation area does not affect--
(a) the terms
and conditions of any existing interest in respect of those lands from the
Crown or the trustees, current and in force at the time of the reservation, or
(b) the use permitted of those lands under the interest.
(3) Subject to
subsection (4), no such interest shall be renewed nor shall the term of any
such interest be extended except with the approval of the Minister and subject
to such conditions as the Minister determines.
(5) Upon the termination,
surrender, forfeiture or determination of any existing interest (otherwise
than for the purpose of renewing it or extending its term) referred to in
subsection (2), the lands the subject of the interest are, to the extent to
which they would not, but for this subsection, be lands reserved as part of
the state conservation area within which they are situated, hereby so
reserved.