Interpretation Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. I-21)

Marginal note:Rights of Indigenous peoples

• 8.3 (1) Every enactment is to be construed as upholding the Aboriginal and treaty rights of Indigenous peoples recognized and affirmed by section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, and not as abrogating or derogating from them.

• Marginal note:Indigenous peoples

  (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), Indigenous peoples has the meaning assigned by the definition aboriginal peoples of Canada in subsection 35(2) of the Constitution Act, 1982.