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Bill C-6

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TABLE OF PROVISIONS

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE CANADIAN CENTRE FOR THE INDEPENDENT RESOLUTION OF FIRST NATIONS SPECIFIC CLAIMS TO PROVIDE FOR THE FILING, NEGOTIATION AND RESOLUTION OF SPECIFIC CLAIMS AND TO MAKE RELATED AMENDMENTS TO OTHER ACTS

SHORT TITLE

1. Short title

INTERPRETATION

2. Definitions

PURPOSE

3. Purpose

PART 1

CANADIAN CENTRE FOR THE INDEPENDENT RESOLUTION OF FIRST NATIONS SPECIFIC CLAIMS

Establishment, Composition and Functions
4. Establishment

5. Composition

6. Functions

Chief Executive Officer
7. Functions, powers and duties

8. Term and tenure

9. Deputy head

Personnel Management
10. Separate employer

11. Personnel management

12. Group insurance and benefit programs

13. Mobility to departments

14. Public Service Commission reviews

15. Political partisanship

General Provisions
16. Offices

17. Audit

18. Annual report

19. Quarterly report

PART 2

COMMISSION

Composition and Role
Composition

20. Composition

Remuneration

21. Full-time commissioners

Management

22. Chief Commissioner

Functions, Powers and Duties

23. Functions

24. Powers and duties

Restriction

25. Participation in funding administration

Process Relating to Specific Claims
Filing of Claims

26. Admissible claims

27. Copy to Minister on filing

Preparatory Meetings

28. Initial meeting

29. Amendments

30. Process suspended for Minister's decision

Validity of Claims

31. After decision not to negotiate

32. Referral to Tribunal

Compensation

33. After favourable decision on validity

34. Amendments re compensation

35. Referral to Tribunal

General

36. Notice

37. Participation

38. No disclosure, production or testimony without consent - Chief Executive Officer, commissioner or employee

39. Prohibition on representing parties - Chief Executive Officer, commissioner or employee

40. Evidence not admissible in other proceedings

PART 3

TRIBUNAL

Composition and Role
Composition

41. Composition

Remuneration

42. Full-time adjudicators

Management

43. Chief Adjudicator

Functions, Powers and Duties

44. Functions

45. Powers of the Tribunal

46. Powers of a panel

Panels, Hearings and Decisions
47. Applications

48. Panel for interlocutory issue

49. Hearing and decision

50. Application to strike

51. Decision of issue

52. Panel for final decision

53. Hearing and decision

54. Limitation

55. Decision on extent of responsibility

56. Basis and limitations for decision on compensation

57. Unlawful disposition

58. Acting after termination of appointment

59. Notice to others

60. Party status

61. Conduct of hearings

62. Public hearings

63. Right to cross-examine

64. Defences of Crown

65. Claims to be decided together

66. Suspension

67. Withdrawal

68. Evidence not admissible in other proceedings

69. Advance notice of decision on compensation

70. Written reasons and publication

71. Judicial review

72. Release and indemnity

73. Payment of award

PART 4

GENERAL

74. Abandonment

75. Public documents

76. Review

77. Regulations

PART 5

CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS, COORDINATING AMENDMENT AND COMING INTO FORCE

Consequential Amendments
78-79. Access to Information Act

80. Financial Administration Act

81. Privacy Act

82. Public Service Staff Relations Act

83. Public Service Superannuation Act

Coordinating Amendment
84. Courts Administration Service Act

Coming into Force
85. Coming into force

SCHEDULE