Northwest Territories Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. N-27)

Act current to 2013-05-20 and last amended on 2013-03-08. Previous Versions

Marginal note:Oaths of office

10. Each member of the Council shall, before assuming the duties of his office, take and subscribe before the Commissioner such oaths of office and allegiance as the Governor in Council may prescribe.

  • R.S., c. N-22, s. 10.
Marginal note:Sessions of Council

11. The Commissioner shall convene at least two sessions of the Council in every calendar year so that twelve months shall not intervene between the last sitting of the Council in one session and its first sitting in the next session.

  • R.S., c. N-22, s. 11;
  • 1984, c. 40, s. 54.
Marginal note:Speaker

  • 12. (1) The Council shall elect one of its members to be Speaker.

  • Marginal note:Speaker to preside

    (2) The Speaker shall preside over the Council when it is in session.

  • R.S., c. N-22, s. 11;
  • 1974, c. 5, s. 12.
Marginal note:Quorum

13. A majority of the Council, including the Speaker, constitutes a quorum.

  • 1974, c. 5, s. 12.
Marginal note:Qualifications of electors and candidates

14. The Commissioner in Council may prescribe

  • (a) the qualifications of persons as electors and the qualifications of electors to vote at an election of members of the Council;

  • (b) the qualifications of persons as candidates for election as members of the Council; and

  • (c) the reasons for which a member of the Council may be or become disqualified from being or sitting as a member of the Council.

  • R.S., c. N-22, s. 9;
  • R.S., c. 48(1st Supp.), s. 15;
  • 1974, c. 5, s. 11.
Marginal note:Sessional indemnity and expenses

  • 15. (1) Subject to subsection (3), each member of the Council shall be paid out of the Northwest Territories Consolidated Revenue Fund such annual indemnity and such travel and living expenses for each session of the Council as the Commissioner in Council may prescribe.

  • Marginal note:Indemnities and expenses of committee members

    (2) Subject to subsection (3), each member of any committee of the Council shall be paid out of the Northwest Territories Consolidated Revenue Fund, in addition to his annual indemnity, such indemnity and such travel and living expenses as the Commissioner in Council may prescribe.

  • Marginal note:Payment of indemnities

    (3) The Commissioner in Council may prescribe the terms and conditions on which the indemnities and travel and living expenses prescribed pursuant to subsections (1) and (2) shall be paid to the members of the Council or any committee thereof.

  • Marginal note:Part of indemnity not taxable

    (4) The first one thousand dollars of the indemnity paid to a member of the Council under subsection (1) in any year is not income for the purposes of the Income Tax Act.

  • R.S., c. N-22, s. 12;
  • R.S., c. 48(1st Supp.), s. 16;
  • 1974, c. 5, s. 13.