Budget Implementation Act, 2019, No. 1 (S.C. 2019, c. 29)

Marginal note:Replacement of “Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development”

374 Every reference to the “Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development” is replaced by a reference to the “Minister of Northern Affairs” in the following provisions:

• (a) the definition Minister in section 34 of the Canada Lands Surveys Act;

• (b) in the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act,

  • (i) the definitions federal Ministers and Minister in section 2,

  • (ii) subsection 5.001(1),

  • (iii) subsection 5.014(1),

  • (iv) paragraph 6(2)(a), and

  • (v) subsection 7(3);

• (c) the definition Minister in section 2 of the Territorial Lands Act;

• (d) in the Canada Petroleum Resources Act,

  • (i) paragraph (b) of the definition Minister in section 2,

  • (ii) the definition Minister in section 75,

  • (iii) paragraph 76(1)(b),

  • (iv) paragraph (b) of the definition Deputy Registrar in subsection 84(1), and

  • (v) paragraph (b) of the definition Registrar in subsection 84(1);

• (e) the definition Minister in section 2 of the Northern Canada Power Commission Yukon Assets Disposal Authorization Act;

• (f) the definition Minister in section 2 of the Northern Canada Power Commission (Share Issuance and Sale Authorization) Act;

• (g) the definition Minister in section 2 of the Nunavut Act;

• (h) the definition Minister in section 2 of the Yukon Surface Rights Board Act;

• (i) the definition federal Minister in section 2 of the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act;

• (j) the definition Minister in section 2 of the Yukon Act;

• (k) the definition Minister in subsection 2(1) the Nunavut Waters and Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal Act;

• (l) the definition federal minister in subsection 2(1) of the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act;

• (m) in the Nunavut Planning and Project Assessment Act,

  • (i) the definition federal Minister in subsection 2(1), and

  • (ii) paragraph (b) of the definition responsible Minister in subsection 73(1); and

• (n) the definition Minister in section 2 of the Northwest Territories Act.

Marginal note:Replacement of “Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development”

• 375 (1) Every reference to the “Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development” is replaced by a reference to the “Minister of Indigenous Services” in the following provisions:

  • (a) the definition Minister in subsection 2(1) of the Indian Act;

  • (b) the definition Minister in section 2 of the Indian Oil and Gas Act;

  • (c) subparagraph 157(3)(b)(i) of the Canada Labour Code;

  • (d) the definition Minister in subsection 2(1) of the Saskatchewan Treaty Land Entitlement Act;

  • (e) subsection 21(1) of the Kanesatake Interim Land Base Governance Act;

  • (f) in the Species at Risk Act,

    • (i) subsection 53(2),

    • (ii) subsection 58(7),

    • (iii) subsection 59(5), and

    • (iv) subsection 71(2);

  • (g) the definition Minister in subsection 2(1) of the First Nations Oil and Gas and Moneys Management Act;

  • (h) the definition Minister in subsection 2(1) of the First Nations Commercial and Industrial Development Act;

  • (i) subsection 161(1) of the Keeping Canada’s Economy and Jobs Growing Act, as amended by section 233 of the Economic Action Plan 2013 Act, No. 1;

  • (j) the definition Minister in subsection 2(1) of the Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act;

  • (k) the definition Minister in subsection 2(1) of the Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act; and

  • (l) the definition Minister in section 2 of the First Nations Elections Act.

• Marginal note:Other reference to Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development

  (2) Unless the context requires otherwise, the reference to the “Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development” is to be read as a reference to the “Minister of Indigenous Services” in the portion of subsection 22(1) of the Kanesatake Interim Land Base Governance Act before paragraph (a).

• Marginal note:Other reference to Minister

  (3) Unless the context requires otherwise, the reference to the “Minister” is to be read as a reference to the “Minister of Indigenous Services” in subsection 11(2) of the Saskatchewan Treaty Land Entitlement Act.

Coordinating Amendments

Marginal note:2009, c. 7

• 376 (1) In this section, other Act means An Act to amend the Indian Oil and Gas Act, chapter 7 of the Statutes of Canada, 2009.

• (2) If section 1 of the other Act comes into force before paragraph 375(1)(b) of this Act, then

  • (a) that paragraph 375(1)(b) is deemed never to have come into force and is repealed; and

  • (b) the definition Minister in subsection 2(1) of the Indian Oil and Gas Act is replaced by the following:

    Minister

    Minister means the Minister of Indigenous Services. (ministre)

• (3) If paragraph 375(1)(b) of this Act comes into force before section 1 of the other Act, then, on the day on which that section 1 comes into force, the definition Minister in subsection 2(1) of the Indian Oil and Gas Act is replaced by the following:

  Minister

  Minister means the Minister of Indigenous Services. (ministre)

• (4) If paragraph 375(1)(b) of this Act comes into force on the same day as section 1 of the other Act, then that section 1 is deemed to have come into force before that paragraph 375(1)(b) and subsection (2) applies as a consequence.

• (5) On the first day on which both section 3 of the other Act and paragraph 372(1)(b) of this Act are in force, section 15 of the Indian Oil and Gas Act is replaced by the following:

  Marginal note:Ministerial powers

  15 Without derogating from paragraph 24(2)(d) of the Interpretation Act in relation to any other power of the Minister under this Act, the Minister may delegate in writing any of the Minister’s powers under subsections 8(1), 10(1) and (3) and 14(1) to any person employed in the Department of Indigenous Services.