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

Marginal note:Publication of proposed rules

• 34. (1) At least 60 days before making rules, the Board or a designated office shall publish a notice of any proposed rules in the Canada Gazette, in a periodical that, in its opinion, has a large circulation in Yukon and in a periodical distributed in the Gwich’in Settlement Area referred to in the Gwich’in Agreement and shall, in the notice, invite written representations to be made to it with respect to the proposed rules within 60 days after publication.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) No further notice need be published if the proposed rules are amended solely in response to representations made to the Board or the designated office.

• Marginal note:Publication of rules

  (3) Rules made by the Board or a designated office shall be published in the Canada Gazette immediately after they are made.

Marginal note:By-laws of Board

35. The Board may make by-laws

• (a) for the conduct and management of its internal administrative affairs; and

• (b) specifying grounds for the removal of members from office other than for cause, for the purposes of subsection 11(1).

Marginal note:By-laws for designated offices

• 36. (1) The Board may make by-laws for the conduct and management of the internal administrative affairs of all designated offices.

• Marginal note:Collaboration

  (2) The Board shall seek the collaboration of the designated offices in making by-laws applicable to them.

• Marginal note:By-laws made by designated office

  (3) A designated office may make by-laws for the conduct and management of its internal administrative affairs, but by-laws made by the Board under subsection (1) prevail over by-laws made by a designated office to the extent of any inconsistency.

Marginal note:Standard mitigation measures

• 37. (1) A designated office may develop standard mitigative measures that can be applied to a class of projects, or to projects located within a geographic area.

• Marginal note:Standard mitigation measures

  (2) The executive committee may develop standard mitigative measures that can be applied to a class of projects or existing projects, or to projects or existing projects located within a geographic area.

• Marginal note:Public participation

  (3) The designated office and the executive committee shall provide opportunities for public participation in the development of standard mitigative measures.

• Marginal note:Conflict

  (4) Unless otherwise provided by the rules, standard mitigative measures developed by the executive committee prevail over those developed by a designated office to the extent of any inconsistency.