Marginal note:Funding agreements

24. The Minister may, with the approval of the Governor in Council and subject to appropriations by Parliament, enter into an agreement with a first nation named in Schedule II for the provision of funding by the Government of Canada to the first nation over the period of time and subject to the terms and conditions specified in the agreement.

Marginal note:Deposit of copies

25. The Minister shall cause a copy of each self-government agreement that is brought into effect and of any amendment made to such an agreement, certified by the Minister to be a true copy, to be deposited in

• (a) the Library and Archives of Canada;

• (b) the library of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development situated in the National Capital Region;

• (c) such regional offices of the Government of Canada situated in Yukon as the Minister considers advisable;

• (d) the central registry of laws of first nations established under section 10, if any; and

• (e) such other places as the Minister considers advisable.

Marginal note:Effect of self-government agreement

26. For greater certainty, nothing in this Act renders ineffective any provision, or any amendment made to a provision, of a self-government agreement for which specific provision is not made in this Act.

Marginal note:Consultation

27. Consultations shall be carried out with first nations named in Schedule II, as provided by their self-government agreements, in connection with amendments to this Act.

Marginal note:Orders and regulations

28. The Governor in Council may make such orders and regulations as are necessary to implement the self-government agreement of a first nation named in Schedule II.

Marginal note:By-laws remain in force

29. Any by-law made under the Indian Act by a predecessor band of a first nation, in force immediately before the day the first nation’s self-government agreement is brought into effect, applies to the first nation and to its citizens as if the by-law were a law enacted by the first nation, to the extent that the by-law does not conflict with and is not inconsistent with this Act or the constitution of the first nation and is not amended or repealed by a law enacted by the first nation after that day.

Marginal note:Interim powers of councillors

30. Unless the members of a governing body of a first nation named in Schedule II have been selected before the day the first nation’s self-government agreement is brought into effect, the persons who were the chief and councillors of the predecessor band of the first nation immediately before that day shall be the members of the governing body from that day until a governing body is selected pursuant to the first nation’s constitution.