Nunavut Waters and Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal Act (S.C. 2002, c. 10)

Marginal note:Applications not requiring public hearings

• 174. (1) The regulations made under paragraph 33(1)(c) of the Northwest Territories Waters Act are deemed, in relation to the use of waters or the deposit of waste in Nunavut, to prescribe, as classes of applications that are exempted from the requirement of a public hearing, the classes of applications in relation to the following:

  • (a) in the case of a Type A licence,

    • (i) any amendment that does not affect the use, flow or quality of waters or alter the term of the licence,

    • (ii) any amendment that affects the use, flow or quality of waters or alters the term of the licence, where the Nunavut Water Board, with the consent of the Minister, is of the opinion that an emergency exists that requires the amendment, or

    • (iii) one or several renewals of a total duration not exceeding sixty days; and

  • (b) in the case of a Type B licence, its issuance, amendment, renewal or cancellation.

• Marginal note:Consultation

  (2) Within one year after the day on which this Act is assented to, the Minister shall, unless regulations have been made under paragraph 82(1)(f) before that time to replace the regulations referred to in subsection (1), consult the Board on the application of subsection (1).

Marginal note:Continuation of Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal

175. The Tribunal established by section 99 and the Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal established under the Agreement before this Act is assented to are hereby declared for all purposes to be one and the same body.

176. to 199. [Amendments]

200. to 202. [Amendments]

Marginal note:Coming into force

Footnote ^*203. Subsections 171(2) to (4), section 172 and subsections 173(1) and (2) and 174(1) are deemed to have come into force on July 9, 1996.

• Return to footnote ^*[Note: Act, except subsections 171(2) to (4), section 172 and subsections 173(1) and (2) and 174(1), in force on assent April 30, 2002.]