Yukon Act (S.C. 2002, c. 7)

• Marginal note:Prescribing prices

  (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Governor in Council may, by regulation, prescribe prices at which the various kinds of gas to which this Part applies that are produced, extracted, recovered or manufactured in Yukon, the Northwest Territories or Nunavut are to be sold on or for delivery in any areas or zones in Canada and outside any of those territories or at any points of export from Canada.

• Marginal note:Territories or offshore area

  (2) Where the Governor in Council prescribes prices pursuant to subsection 40(2) or (3) at which the various kinds of gas to which this Part applies that are produced, extracted, recovered or manufactured in Yukon, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut or the offshore area, as the case may be, are to be sold, sections 43 to 55 apply in respect of any of those territories or that offshore area.

• Marginal note:Application to territories

  (2) For the purposes of this Act, the expression “Her Majesty in right of a province” includes the governments of Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut and the expression “legislature of any province” includes the Council of the Northwest Territories and the Legislative Assembly of Yukon or Nunavut.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (4) No interest in settlement land as defined in section 2 of the Yukon First Nations Land Claims Settlement Act or lands identified as such in a self-government agreement as defined in the Yukon First Nations Self-Government Act may be expropriated under this Part without the consent of the Governor in Council.

Marginal note:Exception

• 35.1 (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, any dispute as to the compensation payable in respect of an expropriated interest in land described in subsection 4(4) or (5) may only be heard and determined by the body established under the laws of the Legislature of Yukon having jurisdiction with respect to surface rights and under and in accordance with those laws.

• Marginal note:Provisions applicable

  (2) Subsection 16(2) and sections 33, 35 and 36 apply, with any modifications that the circumstances require, in respect of compensation determined by the body referred to in subsection (1) as if that compensation were compensation adjudged by the Court.

• (d) in Nova Scotia, British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, the Supreme Court, and in Nunavut, the Nunavut Court of Justice; and

• Definition of “province”

  (2) In Parts I, II and IV, “province” does not include Yukon, the Northwest Territories or Nunavut.

Marginal note:Territorial lands

• 17. (1) Notwithstanding section 3 of the Territorial Lands Act, sections 13 to 16 and 19 of that Act apply in respect of all federal real property in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

• Marginal note:Yukon

  (1.1) Sections 13 to 16 and 19 of the Territorial Lands Act apply in respect of federal real property in Yukon that is under the administration of a Minister or an agent corporation.

• Marginal note:Administration of reserved property

  (2) If any federal real property in the Northwest Territories or Nunavut or, in Yukon, any federal real property that is described in subsection (1.1), is granted in fee simple under this Act, the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development has the administration of any property and rights that are reserved from the grant by virtue of subsection (1) or (1.1), as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Administration of reserved property

  (3) If an interest other than the fee simple in any federal real property in the Northwest Territories or Nunavut or, in Yukon, in any federal real property that is described in subsection (1.1), that is under the administration of a Minister is granted under this Act, that Minister retains the administration of such property and rights as are reserved from the grant by virtue of subsection (1) or (1.1), as the case may be.

• (e) in Yukon or the Northwest Territories, the Supreme Court, and in Nunavut, the Nunavut Court of Justice.

• (d) in the Provinces of Nova Scotia, British Columbia and Newfoundland, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, a judge of the Supreme Court, and

Marginal note:Yukon and Northwest Territories

• 5. (1) Where an employee is usually employed in Yukon or the Northwest Territories, the employee shall for the purposes of this Act be deemed to be usually employed in the Province of Alberta.

• (b) the regional offices of the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development that are situated in Yukon and the Northwest Territories;

• (c) the legislative libraries of the Government of Yukon and the Government of the Northwest Territories; and

• (e) not fewer than four and not more than thirteen governors to represent the governments of the ten provinces, the Government of Yukon, the Government of the Northwest Territories and the Government of Nunavut, appointed after consultation by the Minister with each of those governments.

“federal laws”

« lois fédérales »

“federal laws” includes Acts of Parliament, regulations as defined in section 2 of the Interpretation Act and any other rules of law within the jurisdiction of Parliament, and any provision of those Acts, regulations or rules of law, but does not include ordinances within the meaning of the Northwest Territories Act or laws of the Legislature of Yukon or of the Legislature for Nunavut;

• (d) two representatives for each of Ontario and Quebec, one representative for each of the other provinces, and one representative for each of Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, to be appointed by the Governor in Council.