Nisga’a Final Agreement Act (S.C. 2000, c. 7)

Marginal note:Aboriginal rights

• 7 (1) Notwithstanding the common law, as a result of the Nisga’a Final Agreement and the settlement legislation, the aboriginal rights, including the aboriginal title, of the Nisga’a Nation, as they existed anywhere in Canada before the effective date of that Agreement, including their attributes and geographic extent, are modified, and continue as modified, as set out in that Agreement.

• Marginal note:Aboriginal title

  (2) For greater certainty, the aboriginal title of the Nisga’a Nation anywhere that it existed in Canada before the effective date of the Nisga’a Final Agreement is modified and continues as the estates in fee simple to those areas identified in that Agreement as Nisga’a Lands or Nisga’a Fee Simple Lands.

• Marginal note:Interpretation

  (3) The express derogation from the common law contained in subsection (1), which is also contained in paragraph 24 of the General Provisions Chapter of the Nisga’a Final Agreement, shall not be construed so as to limit the effect on the common law of any other provision of this or any other Act that does not contain an express derogation from the common law.