Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act

Marginal note:Regulations identifying activities

• 47 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations

  • (a) listing activities that may be made subject to assessment; and

  • (b) making exceptions from activities so listed.

• Marginal note:Circumstances

  (2) An activity listed under paragraph (1)(a) — and not excepted under paragraph (1)(b) — is subject to assessment if proposed to be undertaken in Yukon and if

  • (a) a federal agency or federal independent regulatory agency is the proponent or receives an application for financial assistance for the activity;

  • (b) a territorial agency, municipal government, territorial independent regulatory agency or first nation is the proponent and an authorization or the grant of an interest in land would be required for the activity to be undertaken by a private individual;

  • (c) an authorization or the grant of an interest in land by a government agency, independent regulatory agency, municipal government or first nation is required for the activity to be undertaken; or

  • (d) an authorization by the Governor in Council is required for the activity to be undertaken.