Mushuau Innu First Nation Band Order (SOR/2002-415)

Interpretation

1 In this Order, “adoption” includes adoption in accordance with Innu custom.

Declaration

2 The body of Indians described in section 3 is hereby declared to be a band for the purposes of the Indian Act, to be known as the Mushuau Innu First Nation.

3 The Mushuau Innu First Nation is the body of Indians consisting of

• (a) the persons identified in Schedule 1; and

• (b) every other person of Canadian Innu ancestry who, on November 19, 2002, was not registered in the Indian Register and who, on that day,

  • (i) was ordinarily resident in the location known as Davis Inlet, as described in Schedule 2,

  • (ii) had been absent from the location for a period of not more than 12 months but was ordinarily resident in the location before that absence,

  • (iii) had been absent from the location for a period of more than 12 months for the purpose of education, employment, incarceration or for health reasons, including medical treatments, but was ordinarily resident in the location before that absence,

  • (iv) was absent from the location because of adoption or placement into foster care or a similar arrangement, but who was, or whose parents were, ordinarily resident in the location at the time of the adoption or placement, or

  • (v) was, whether by birth or adoption, the parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, child, grandchild, great-grandchild, brother, sister, half-brother, half-sister, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew or first cousin of a person referred to in any of subparagraphs (i) to (iv).

Coming into Force

4 This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.