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Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act (S.C. 2003, c. 7)

Assented to 2003-05-13

Marginal note:Pending applications to territorial agencies and first nations

  • 126. (1) This Act does not apply in respect of a project for which, before the coming into force of Part 2, an application was made to a territorial agency under a territorial law, or to a first nation under a first nation law or the first nation’s final agreement, for the issuance of an authorization, the grant of an interest in land or the grant of financial assistance, unless

    • (a) the project becomes subject to this Act by virtue of subsection 124(2) or 125(2); or

    • (b) before the application is accepted, the territorial minister or the first nation, as the case may be, requires the applicant to submit a proposal under section 50.

  • Marginal note:Projects already initiated

    (2) This Act does not apply in respect of any project that the territorial agency or first nation has initiated as proponent before the coming into force of Part 2 unless the project becomes subject to this Act by virtue of subsection 124(2) or 125(2).

Consequential Amendments

Marginal note:R.S., c. A-1

Access to Information Act

127. Schedule I to the Access to Information Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order under the heading “Other Government Institutions”:

  • Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board

    Office d’évaluation environnementale et socioéconomique du Yukon

128. Schedule II to the Act is amended by adding, in alphabetical order, a reference to

  • Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act

    Loi sur l’évaluation environnementale et socioéconomique au Yukon

and a corresponding reference to “paragraph 121(a)”.

Marginal note:R.S., c. P-21

Privacy Act

129. The schedule to the Privacy Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order under the heading “Other Government Institutions”:

  • Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board

    Office d’évaluation environnementale et socioéconomique du Yukon

Marginal note:1994, c. 35

Yukon First Nations Self-Government Act

130. Section 13 of the Yukon First Nations Self-Government Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):

  • Marginal note:Fines in relation to lands and environment

    (3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), until the earlier of the events referred to in that subsection, and to the extent provided by a first nation’s self-government agreement, a fine not exceeding $300,000 may be imposed on a person convicted of an offence under a law of the first nation enacted pursuant to paragraph 11(1)(c) in relation to

    • (a) the use of settlement land and of natural resources on settlement land; or

    • (b) the control or prevention of pollution and the protection of the environment.