United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act

Marginal note:Definitions

• 2 (1) The following definitions apply in this Act.

  Declaration

  Declaration means the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations as General Assembly Resolution 61/295 on September 13, 2007 and that is set out in the schedule. (Déclaration)

  Indigenous peoples

  Indigenous peoples has the meaning assigned by the definition aboriginal peoples of Canada in subsection 35(2) of the Constitution Act, 1982. (peuples autochtones)

  Minister

  Minister, for the purposes of any provision of this Act, means the federal minister designated as the Minister for the purposes of that provision under section 3. (ministre)

• Marginal note:Rights of Indigenous peoples

  (2) This Act is to be construed as upholding the rights of Indigenous peoples recognized and affirmed by section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, and not as abrogating or derogating from them.

• Marginal note:Clarification

  (3) Nothing in this Act is to be construed as delaying the application of the Declaration in Canadian law.