Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act

Marginal note:Decision on recommendation from executive committee or panel of the Board

• 76 (1) Subject to subsection 59(1), where the executive committee or a panel of the Board makes a recommendation to a decision body, the decision body shall, within the period prescribed by the regulations,

  • (a) issue a decision document accepting the recommendation; or

  • (b) refer the recommendation back to the executive committee or the panel for reconsideration by it, unless that recommendation was made in response to a previous referral under this paragraph.

• Marginal note:Notice of referral back

  (2) When a decision body refers a recommendation back to the executive committee or a panel of the Board for reconsideration, it shall give notice of the referral to every person or body referred to in paragraphs 81(1)(a), (b) and (f) to (i).

• Marginal note:Effect of referral back

  (3) On being notified under subsection (2),

  • (a) every other decision body for the project shall discontinue its consideration of the recommendation; and

  • (b) no person or body required under sections 82 to 88 to implement a decision document already issued shall take any action that would enable the project to be undertaken.