Marginal note:Transregional impact

142. Where a development proposed to be carried out wholly in a region of the Northwest Territories, Yukon or Nunavut adjacent to the Mackenzie Valley, or wholly in a province, might have a significant adverse impact on the environment in the Mackenzie Valley, the Review Board may, with the approval of the federal Minister, enter into an agreement with the authority responsible for the examination of the environmental effects of such developments in that region or province to provide for the participation of the Review Board in the examination of the environmental effects of the development by that authority.

• (a) the Minister may order notice to be given by publication in the prescribed form for a period of five consecutive days in two major daily newspapers in each of the six regions of Canada, namely, the Atlantic provinces, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairie provinces, British Columbia, and the three territories, or by an alternative medium for any period that the Minister deems expedient, and the notice is deemed to be notice given in the manner prescribed for the purpose of subsection (1); or

• (d) in Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, a judge of the Supreme Court, and in Nunavut, a judge of the Nunavut Court of Justice;

Marginal note:Settlement land

• 78.1 (1) No company shall, if the Yukon first nation concerned does not consent to it, take possession of or occupy settlement land as defined in section 2 of the Yukon First Nations Land Claims Settlement Act or lands identified as such in a self-government agreement as defined in the Yukon First Nations Self-Government Act without the consent of the Governor in Council.

Marginal note:Regulatory powers re settlement land or Tetlit Gwich’in Yukon land

97.1 The Governor in Council may, by regulation, designate the provisions of the laws of the Legislature of Yukon that apply where an Arbitration Committee is appointed to determine a compensation matter involving land referred to in section 78.1. Those provisions apply to the Committee as if it were the body established under those laws having jurisdiction with respect to surface rights.

“Agreement”

« Accord »

“Agreement” means the Agreement between Canada and the United States dated September 20, 1977, set out in Schedule I, and includes any exchange of notes between Canada and the United States amending Annex III of the Agreement to give effect to a report of the Board, dated February 17, 1978, in which the Board indicated it would include in its decision approving, pursuant to this Act, pipeline specifications, a requirement for a fifty-six inch diameter pipe with a maximum allowable operating pressure of 1,080 psi for that portion of the pipeline between Whitehorse, Yukon and Caroline, Alberta;

• (d) to facilitate, in relation to the pipeline, consultation and coordination with the governments of the provinces, Yukon and the Northwest Territories;

• (b) hold consultations with the governments of the provinces, Yukon and the Northwest Territories to coordinate and review the activities of the Agency and those governments in relation to the pipeline;

• (c) enter into such agreements with the government of a province, or with the government of Yukon or the Northwest Territories after consultation with the Legislature of Yukon or the Commissioner in Council of the Northwest Territories, as may be necessary to facilitate the attainment of the objects of this Act and to provide for coordination and review of the activities of the Agency and those governments in relation to the pipeline;

• Marginal note:Yukon Advisory Council

  (2) One of the advisory councils established under subsection (1) shall be the Yukon Advisory Council with members representative of areas and interests, including native interests, in Yukon.

• 20. 

  The company shall, in implementing paragraph 3(b) of the Agreement, construct laterals from the pipeline and make arrangements for the supply of gas to remote communities in Yukon and the provinces through which the pipeline passes where the communities can be economically served and have applied to the appropriate authority for such service and that authority has approved such application, except that in Yukon, Foothills Pipe Lines (South Yukon) Ltd. shall make a financial contribution in respect of providing gas

“Territories”

« territoires »

“Territories” means the Northwest Territories, which comprise all that part of Canada north of the sixtieth parallel of north latitude and west of the boundary described in Schedule I to the Nunavut Act that is not within Yukon.

Marginal note:Ex officio judges

34. A judge, other than a deputy judge, of the Supreme Court of Yukon or of the Nunavut Court of Justice is ex officio a judge of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories.