NAPTEP Annotated Conservation Covenant

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NAPTEP Annotated Covenant Revised: April 7, 2022 Page 1 
 
ANNOTATED CONSERVATION COVENANT 
 
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HOW TO USE THIS DOCUMENT 
The  following  is  an  annotated  standard  Natural  Area  Protection  Tax  Exemption  Program  (NAPTEP) 
covenant.  The  left  hand  column  contains  the  NAPTEP  covenant  as  it  is  written.  The  right  hand  column 
contains comments that refer to and explain the covenant in plain English. This document is not intended 
as a substitute for legal advice. All landowners wishing to participate in NAPTEP are strongly encouraged 
to obtain independent legal and tax advice.  
 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 
We would like to thank West Coast Environmental Law for permission to use the following document as 
a resource for this document: 
 
Hillyer A. and J. Atkins. Greening Your Title: A Guide to Best Practices for Conservation Covenants, 
Second Edition. West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation. Vancouver, British Columbia: 
2005. 
 
Greening Your Title is available from West Coast Environmental Law in print by calling 1-800-330-WCEL, 
or online via their website, https://www.wcel.org/publication/greening-your-title-guide-best-practices-
conservation-covenant-3rd-edition. 
 

 
 
NAPTEP Annotated Covenant Revised: April 7, 2022 Page 2 
ANNOTATED STANDARD CONSERVATION COVENANT 
FOR THE 
NATURAL AREA PROTECTION TAX EXEMPTION PROGRAM (NAPTEP) 
 
*NOTE:  The  terms  in  this  conservation  covenant  are  the  minimum  requirements  needed  to  enter  the  NAPTEP 
Program. The Owner may include additional restrictions (see Article 4).  The Islands Trust Conservancy reserves the 
right to modify the standard conservation covenant from time to time as advised by legal counsel. 
TERMS OF INSTRUMENT – PART 2 
Section 219 Conservation Covenant 
and 
Section 218 Statutory Right of Way 
 
This Agreement dated for reference [insert date], is 
Part 1 is the Land Title Act Form C to which Part 2 is 
attached. 
Section 219 of the Land Title Act authorizes a 
provincially designated body to hold a registered 
interest in land for the purposes of conservation. 
Section 218 of the Land Title Act allows the owner to 
give the covenant holder(s) the right to enter onto the 
owner’s land to ensure compliance with the covenant. 
AMONG: 
Name, and address of the owner(s) 
(the “Owner”) 
 
AND: 
 
Islands Trust Conservancy, a corporation under the 
Islands Trust Act (British Columbia) with its office at 
200 - 1627 Fort Street, Victoria, B.C. V8R 1H8 
(the “Conservancy”) 
The Islands Trust is composed of three corporate 
entities: 
 Trust Council, which brings together 26 local and 
municipal trustees as a federation to deal with issues 
that affect the Islands Trust area. 
 13 Local Trust Committees and one Island 
Municipality, which undertake local land use 
planning within their islands  
 Islands Trust Conservancy, which oversees a 
conservation land trust, the Is

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