Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act

Marginal note:Jurisdiction — water and waste

• 60 (1) A board established for a settlement area has jurisdiction in respect of all uses of waters and deposits of waste in the settlement area for which a licence is required under the Northwest Territories Waters Act and may

  • (a) issue, amend, renew and cancel licences and approve the assignment of licences, in accordance with that Act, and

  • (b) exercise any other power of the Northwest Territories Water Board under that Act,

  and, for those purposes, references in that Act to that Board shall be read as references to the board established for the settlement area.

• Marginal note:Suspension power

  (2) A board may suspend a licence for a specified period or until terms and conditions specified by the board are complied with, where the licensee contravenes a provision of the Northwest Territories Waters Act or of this Part or a term or condition of the licence.

• Marginal note:Effect outside settlement area

  (3) In respect of a use of waters or deposit of waste in the settlement area that has an effect in a region of the Northwest Territories or Nunavut outside the settlement area, subsections 14(4) and (5) of the Northwest Territories Waters Act apply in relation to the protection of the rights of licensees and other persons referred to in those subsections who are in such a region.

• Marginal note:Inuit-owned lands

  (3.1) Sections 15.1 to 15.5 of the Northwest Territories Waters Act apply to the board in relation to Inuit-owned lands referred to in those sections, even though those lands are outside the Mackenzie Valley.

• Marginal note:Northwest Territories Waters Act

  (4) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the following provisions of the Northwest Territories Waters Act do not apply in respect of a settlement area for which a board has been established, namely, sections 10 to 13, subsection 14(6), sections 20 and 22, paragraphs 23(1)(b) and (2)(b), section 24, section 26 except in relation to type A licences under that Act, sections 27 and 28 and subsection 37(2).

• Marginal note:Northwest Territories Waters Act

  (5) Notwithstanding subsection (1), section 31 of the Northwest Territories Waters Act does not apply in respect of first nation lands.