Bill C-15
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TABLE OF PROVISIONS
AN ACT TO REPLACE THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES ACT TO IMPLEMENT CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES LANDS AND RESOURCES DEVOLUTION AGREEMENT AND TO REPEAL OR MAKE AMENDMENTS TO THE TERRITORIAL LANDS ACT, THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES WATERS ACT, THE MACKENZIE VALLEY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, OTHER ACTS AND CERTAIN ORDERS AND REGULATIONS
SHORT TITLE
1. Northwest Territories Devolution Act
PART 1
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES ACT
Enactment of Act
2. Enactment
AN ACT RESPECTING THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
SHORT TITLE
1. Northwest Territories Act
INTERPRETATION
2. Definitions
3. Consultation
EXECUTIVE POWER
4. Commissioner
5. Deputy Commissioner
6. Oaths
7. Salaries
8. Executive Council
9. Seat of government
LEGISLATIVE POWER
Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
10. Continuance
11. Duration
12. Oaths
13. Sittings
14. Speaker
15. Quorum
16. Rules
Legislature of the Northwest Territories
17. Continuance
Legislative Powers
18. Subjects
19. Laws — natural resources
20. Laws — access to lands and waters
21. Roads on Tlicho lands
22. Unitization of straddling resources
23. Federal appurtenant undertakings
24. Composition of water board
25. Restrictions on powers
26. Agreement implementation Acts
27. Laws — conservation of wildlife
28. Laws — borrowing, making loans and investing
29. Withholding assent
30. Transmittal of laws
31. Conflicting laws
32. Official Languages Act
33. Amendments concurred in
CONSOLIDATED REVENUE FUND OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
34. Establishment
35. Recommendation of Commissioner
36. Appropriation of moneys granted by Parliament
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS OF THE NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
37. Fiscal year
38. Submission to Legislative Assembly
39. Form and contents
40. Annual audit
41. Supplementary report
42. Report at Commissioner’s request
43. Auditor General’s powers
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
Judicature
44. Appointment of judges
45. Tenure of judges
Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories
46. Judges
47. Deputy judges
48. Jurisdiction — civil cases
49. Jurisdiction — criminal cases
Court of Appeal of the Northwest Territories
50. Sittings
PUBLIC LANDS AND WATERS
Administration and Control
51. Public lands — Commissioner
52. Rights in respect of waters
53. Relinquishment by Commissioner
54. Transfer to Commissioner
Restrictions
55. Taking of administration and control by Governor in Council
56. Prohibition order — public lands
57. Prohibition order — waters
58. Consultation — prohibition orders
Compensation
59. No expenditure or compensation
Agreements
60. Management of waters
AMENDING THIS ACT
61. Consultation — Minister
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
62. Ordinances
63. Commissioner
64. Executive Council
65. Council
66. Speaker
67. Judges
68. Definitions
69. Existing interests
70. References to Government of Canada or Minister
71. Pending proceedings
72. Validity of laws of Legislature
73. Indemnification by Government of the Northwest Territories
74. Indemnification by Government of Canada
75. Limitation on indemnification
76. Enforcement actions
77. No waiver — solicitor-client privilege
78. Assignment of contracts
79. Transfer — public property
AMENDMENT TO THIS ACT
80. Repeal — subsection 4(3)
Amendments to Other Acts
3. Access to Information Act
4. Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act
5. Canada Evidence Act
6. Canada Water Act
7. Crown Liability and Proceedings Act
8. Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act
9. Excise Tax Act
10. Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act
11. Canadian Human Rights Act
12. Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act
13. Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Act
14. Interpretation Act
15–17. Canada Lands Surveys Act
18. National Energy Board Act
19. Northern Pipeline Act
20–25. Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act
26. Privacy Act
27. Statutory Instruments Act
28. Canada Student Loans Act
29–31. Territorial Lands Act
32. Dominion Water Power Act
33–34. Divorce Act
35–37. Canada Petroleum Resources Act
38. Canadian Multiculturalism Act
39–40. Official Languages Act
41. Hibernia Development Project Act
42. Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act
43. Nunavut Act
44–45. Land Titles Repeal Act
46. Oceans Act
47. Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999
48–49. Canada Elections Act
50–51. Canada National Parks Act
52. Youth Criminal Justice Act
53. Nunavut Waters and Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal Act
54. Public Service Labour Relations Act
55. Public Service Employment Act
56–57. Tlicho Land Claims and Self-Government Act
Amendments to the Oaths of Allegiance and Office and Seat of Government Order (N.W.T.)
58–63. Amendments
Coordinating Amendments
64. 2013, c. 14
Repeals
Acts
65. Northwest Territories Act
66. Northwest Territories Waters Act
67. Northwest Territories Surface Rights Board Act
Orders and Regulations
68. Game Declared in Danger of Becoming Extinct
69. Northwest Territories Reindeer Regulations
70. Management of Forests in the Northwest Territories Designation Order
71. Fire Management in the Northwest Territories Designation Order
72. Northwest Territories Archaeological Sites Regulations
Coming into Force
73. Order in council
PART 2
AMENDMENTS TO THE TERRITORIAL LANDS ACT
74–77. Amendments
PART 3
NORTHWEST TERRITORIES WATERS ACT
Amendments to the Act
78–99. Amendments
Transitional Provisions
100–109.
Consequential Amendment to the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act
110. Amendment
Coming into Force
111. Order in council
PART 4
MACKENZIE VALLEY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ACT
Amendments to the Act
112–237. Amendments
Consequential Amendments
238. Access to Information Act
239. Privacy Act
240. Tlicho Land Claims and Self-Government Act
Transitional Provisions
241–252.
Coming into Force
253. Order in council