Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act

Marginal note:Applications to Board

• 103 (1) An application shall be made to the Board where the application relates to a use of land or waters or a deposit of waste

  • (a) that is to take place or is likely to have an impact in more than one settlement area, or in a settlement area and an area outside any settlement area; or

  • (b) that is to take place wholly outside any settlement area.

• Marginal note:Applications to regional panel

  (2) An application relating to a use of land or waters or a deposit of waste described in subsection 102(2), including an application relating to a licence or permit for such a use or deposit issued pursuant to Part 3 before the coming into force of this Part, shall be made to the regional panel of the Board for the settlement area referred to in that subsection.

• Marginal note:Copies of panel applications

  (3) A regional panel of the Board shall provide the Board with a copy of every application made to the regional panel.

• Marginal note:Referral between Board and panels

  (4) Where the Board determines that an application made to a regional panel of the Board should have been made to the Board, the Board shall dispose of the application, and where it determines that an application made to it should have been made to a regional panel, it shall refer the application to the regional panel for disposition.

• Marginal note:Decisions of regional panels

  (5) For greater certainty, a decision made by a regional panel of the Board on an application is a decision of the Board.