Bill C-54
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TABLE OF PROVISIONS
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FIRST NATIONS WITH THE OPTION OF MANAGING AND REGULATING OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION AND OF RECEIVING MONEYS OTHERWISE HELD FOR THEM BY CANADA
Preamble
SHORT TITLE
1. First Nations Oil and Gas and Moneys Management Act
INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION
2. Definitions
3. For greater certainty
4. Territorial lands
5. Individual moneys
REQUESTS FOR TRANSFER
6. Council resolution — oil and gas
7. Council resolution — moneys
8. Information from Minister — oil and gas
9. Information from Minister — moneys
REQUIREMENTS FOR TRANSFER
10. Oil and gas code
11. Financial code for moneys received from Canada
12. Law of trusts
13. Councillors as trustees
14. Security required of trustees
15. Oil and gas transfer agreement
16. Moneys payment agreement
APPROVAL PROCEDURE
17. Approval of transfer
18. Approval of payment
19. Combined vote on oil, gas and moneys
20. Eligibility to vote
21. Approval by majority vote
TRANSFERS TO FIRST NATIONS
Oil and Gas
22. Additions to Schedule 1
23. Transfer of contracts
24. Rights and interests under contracts
25. Managed area
26. Registration of lands
27. Liability for transfer
28. Past liability
Moneys
29. Additions to Schedule 2
30. Initial payment of moneys
31. Subsequent payments
32. Liability for payment
33. Past liability
POWERS RELATING TO OIL AND GAS
34. Ownership and management
35. Laws re exploration and exploitation
36. Excluded jurisdiction
37. Projects to be subject to environmental assessment
38. Environmental protection
39. Oil and gas conservation
40. Limitation on penalties
41. Powers re inspections, searches, etc.
42. Incorporation by reference
43. Agreement with province
44. Public access to oil and gas laws
45. International obligations
GENERAL
46. Legal capacity of first nations
47. Public access to financial codes
48. Accounts — oil and gas
49. Accounts — moneys
50. Audit of statements
51. Expropriation by Canada
52. Prosecutions
53. Disposition of fines and property
APPLICATION OF OTHER LAWS
Oil and Gas
54. Indian Act
55. First Nations Land Management Act and Indian Oil and Gas Act
56. Environmental assessment laws
57. Other environmental laws
58. Labour laws
59. Inconsistencies among first nation laws
Moneys
60. Indian Act
61. Financial Administration Act
REGULATIONS
62. Regulations
63. Environmental assessment laws
COMING INTO FORCE
64. Order in council
SCHEDULES 1-2