Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act

Marginal note:Requiring additional information

• 43 (1) A designated office, the executive committee or a panel of the Board may require the proponent to provide any supplementary information that it considers necessary for its assessment, whether or not it has commenced the assessment.

• Marginal note:Suspension

  (2) If the proponent fails to provide the required supplementary information within the period prescribed by the rules, the designated office, executive committee or panel of the Board may suspend its assessment activities until the proponent provides that information and it must make the reasons for the suspension public if it does so.

• Marginal note:Termination of assessment

  (3) If a proponent does not provide the required supplementary information within two years after the day on which the request is made, the assessment of the project is discontinued, unless the Board grants an extension of that period.

• Marginal note:Extension of time limit

  (4) The Board may extend the period referred to in subsection (3) by a maximum of one year.

• Marginal note:Interpretation

  (5) For greater certainty, the proponent may submit a new proposal in relation to the project in accordance with section 50.

• Marginal note:Consideration of previous assessments

  (6) In conducting an assessment of the project to which the new proposal relates, a designated office, the executive committee or a panel of the Board must consider, and may rely on, any assessment activities previously carried out under this Act in respect of the project.