General

Regulations

(a) prescribing anything that is to be prescribed under subsection 80(1) and paragraphs 83(3)(c) and 85(2)(f);

(b) increasing or decreasing the amount to be withheld from a loan under subsection 82(2);

(c) respecting the imposition of charges under subsection 82(5), including the manner of calculating those charges and the share of those charges to be paid by each borrowing member; and

(d) extending the application of this Part to any non-profit organization established to provide social welfare, housing, recreational or cultural services to first nations or their members on reserve lands and making such adaptations to the provisions of this Act as are necessary for that purpose.

PART 5

FIRST NATIONS STATISTICAL INSTITUTE

Interpretation

Establishment and Organization of Institute

Purposes

(a) provide statistical information on, and analysis of, the fiscal, economic and social conditions of

(i) Indians and other members of first nations,

(ii) members of other aboriginal groups, and

(iii) other persons who reside on reserve lands or lands of other aboriginal groups;

(b) promote the quality, coherence and compatibility of first nations statistics and their production in accordance with generally accepted standards and practices through collaboration with first nations, federal departments and agencies, provincial departments and agencies and other organizations;

(c) work with, and provide advice to, federal departments and agencies and provincial departments and agencies on first nations statistics;

(d) work in cooperation with Statistics Canada to ensure that the national statistical system meets the needs of first nations and Canada; and

(e) build statistical capacity within first nation governments.

Powers

(a) population;

(b) agriculture;

(c) health and welfare;

(d) commercial and industrial activities;

(e) law enforcement, the administration of justice and corrections;

(f) finance;

(g) education;

(h) language, culture and traditional activities;

(i) labour and employment;

(j) prices and the cost of living;

(k) transportation and communications;

(l) electric power, gas and water utilities;

(m) public administration;

(n) community services;

(o) the environment;

(p) forestry, fishing and trapping; and

(q) any other matter prescribed by regulation.

(a) respondents from whom information is collected are to be informed by notice that the information is being collected on behalf of the Institute and the first nation, department, agency, municipality, corporation or organization, as the case may be; and

(b) where the respondents object by notice in writing to the First Nations Chief Statistician to the sharing of the information by the Institute, the information will not be shared unless the first nation, department, agency, municipality, corporation or organization is authorized by law to require respondents to provide that information.

General

(a) no person, other than a person employed by, or under contract to, the Institute and sworn or affirmed under section 101, shall be permitted to examine any identifiable individual return made for the purposes of this Part; and

(b) no person who has been sworn or affirmed under section 101 shall knowingly disclose any information obtained by the Institute that can be related to any identifiable individual, first nation, business or organization.

(a) information collected by persons, first nations, organizations or departments for their own purposes and communicated to the Institute, subject to the same secrecy requirements applicable to it when it was collected, and in the manner and to the extent agreed on by its collector and the First Nations Chief Statistician;

(b) information relating to a person, first nation, business or organization in respect of which disclosure is consented to in writing by that person, first nation, business or organization;

(c) information available to the public under an Act of Parliament or of the legislature of a province;

(d) information relating to a hospital, institution for individuals with a mental health disability, library, educational institution or other similar non-commercial institution that cannot be related to an individual to whom services were or are provided by that institution; and

(e) a list of businesses, showing

(i) their names and addresses,

(ii) the telephone numbers at which they may be reached in relation to statistical matters,

(iii) the official language in which they prefer to be addressed in relation to statistical matters,

(iv) the products they produce, transport, store, purchase or sell, or the services they provide, in the course of their business, or

(v) the number of persons they employ, as a specified range.