Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act

Marginal note:Inspections of land

• 85 (1) For the purpose of determining whether the regulations or the conditions of a permit are being complied with, an inspector may

  • (a) enter, at any reasonable time, any place on land owned or occupied by a permittee to which the permit relates, and conduct such inspections as the inspector considers necessary; and

  • (b) take such samples in that place as the inspector considers necessary and examine and make copies of any books, records or documents found there that the inspector believes, on reasonable grounds, contain any information relating to the use of land.

• Marginal note:Notice to first nation

  (2) Where the inspector considers it reasonable to do so, an inspector shall give the Gwich’in or Sahtu First Nation prior notice of entry by the inspector on its first nation lands.

• Marginal note:Notice to Tlicho Government

  (2.1) An inspector shall, if it is reasonable to do so, give the Tlicho Government prior notice of entry by the inspector on Tlicho lands.

• Marginal note:Exception for dwelling-place

  (3) An inspector may not enter any place designed to be used and being used as a permanent or temporary private dwelling-place.