Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act

Marginal note:Pending applications for licences

• 155 (1) An application made before the coming into force of sections 54 and 56 or of section 99 under the Northwest Territories Waters Act in respect of a use of waters or deposit of waste in a settlement area or in another portion of the Mackenzie Valley, as the case may be, shall be disposed of under that Act as it read at the time of the application where a notice of hearing was published in respect of the application under subsection 23(2) of that Act before the coming into force of that section.

• Marginal note:Deeming

  (2) A licence or an amendment thereto or renewal thereof issued pursuant to subsection (1) is deemed to have been issued by the appropriate board under Part 3 or 4, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Where no notice of hearing

  (3) Where a notice of hearing was not issued under subsection 23(2) of the Northwest Territories Waters Act in respect of an application referred to in subsection (1), the application shall be disposed of by the appropriate board under Part 3 or 4, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Transfer of records

  (4) The Northwest Territories Water Board shall transfer to the boards established by Parts 3 and 4 its records relating to applications to which subsection (3) applies and shall provide those boards with any other information in its possession that is required by them in the consideration of those applications.