Cree-Naskapi Land Registry Regulations (SOR/86-1070)

• 9. (1) The local land registry office for a band shall be administered by a local land registrar appointed by the band.

• (2) A local land registrar shall be employed by the band pursuant to paragraph 41(1)(c) of the Act and may be employed on a full-time or part-time basis.

10. A local land registrar shall, in addition to the duties prescribed by the appropriate band pursuant to paragraph 41(1)(c) of the Act,

• (a) assist in the preparation of land registry plans for the Category IA or IA-N land of the band; and

• (b) assist Cree and Naskapi beneficiaries in the preparation of land descriptions and in the preparation and registration, or deposit, of any documents to be registered, or deposited, in accordance with the Act or these Regulations.

• 11. (1) A local land registrar shall be assisted by at least one deputy local land registrar appointed by the band.

• (2) A deputy local land registrar appointed by a band pursuant to subsection (1) shall be employed by the band pursuant to paragraph 41(1)(c) of the Act and may be employed on a full-time or part-time basis.

• (3) Where a local land registrar is absent or incapacitated or the office of the local land registrar is vacant, a deputy local land registrar shall have and may exercise all the powers and duties of the local land registrar.

• (4) Where, in a local land registry office, the local land registrar and the deputy local land registrar are absent or incapacitated, or the offices of the local land registrar and the deputy local land registrar are vacant, the local land registry office may be administered by the central land registrar from the central land registry office.

12. Where a band appoints or dismisses a local land registrar or a deputy local land registrar, the band shall forthwith notify the central land registrar in writing.

13. On assuming office, a land registrar or a deputy land registrar shall swear an oath of office to exercise his duties in accordance with law.

• 14. (1) The central land registrar shall not inspect a local land registry office unless the registrar of the local land registry office to be inspected has received written notice of the proposed inspection at least one week prior to the inspection.

• (2) Where the central land registrar determines, as a result of an inspection referred to in subsection (1), that the affairs of a local land registry office are in serious disorder, the central land registrar shall send a report of the situation and any recommendations to the council of the appropriate band and to the Minister.

• 15. (1) Where, as a result of a report referred to in subsection 14(2), the Minister is of the opinion that the affairs of a local land registry office are in serious disorder, he may give written notice to the appropriate band of his intention to appoint an administrator to administer the local land registry office, setting out the situation which resulted in his reasons for so doing.

• (2) Where a band receives a notice under subsection (1), it shall forthwith take corrective measures to remedy the situation referred to in the notice.

• (3) At any time between sixty days and one year after giving notice under subsection (1), the Minister may, if he is of the opinion that the situation referred to in the notice has not been adequately remedied, appoint, in writing, an administrator to supervise the administration of the local land registry office.

• (4) An administrator appointed pursuant to subsection (3) holds office for a term not exceeding four months from the date of his appointment.

• (5) At the expiration of the administrator's term of appointment referred to in subsection (4), the Minister may, where he is of the opinion that the affairs of the local land registry office continue to be in serious disorder, reappoint the administrator, or appoint a new administrator, for a further term not exceeding four months.

• (6) The Minister's power under subsection (5) applies also at the expiration of the term of appointment of an administrator appointed or re-appointed under that subsection.

• (7) Where the Minister appoints an administrator pursuant to subsection (3) or appoints or reappoints an administrator pursuant to subsection (5) or (6), the Minister shall set out, in writing, the duties of the administrator and shall provide a copy of the appointment or reappointment and the duties to the appropriate band.

• (8) The administrator of a local land registry office appointed pursuant to subsection (3) or appointed or reappointed pursuant to subsection (5) or (6) may supervise the administration of the local land registry office from the central land registry office.