Second Session, 45th General Assembly

54 Elizabeth II, 2005

BILL 28

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LABRADOR INUIT LAND CLAIMS AGREEMENT ACT

Received and Read the First Time

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

HONOURABLE THOMAS G. RIDEOUT

Minister of Transportation and Works

and Minister responsible for Aboriginal Affairs

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of this Bill is to ratify the Labrador Inuit Tax Treatment Agreement as required under the terms of the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LABRADOR INUIT LAND CLAIMS AGREEMENT ACT

Analysis

1. S.2 Amdt.

Interpretation

2. S.8.1 Added

Tax Treatment Agreement

3. Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2004 cL-3.1

Section 2 of the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Interpretation

(1) In this Act

(a) "Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement" means the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement signed on behalf of the Inuit of Labrador as represented by the Labrador Inuit Association, Her Majesty the Queen in right of Newfoundland and Labrador and Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada as set out in the

Schedule attached to this Act and includes amendments made to that Agreement; and

(b) "Tax Treatment Agreement" means the Labrador Inuit Tax Treatment Agreement made between Her Majesty in right of Canada, Her Majesty in right of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Inuit of Labrador and signed on behalf of Canada on April 12, 2005, on behalf of Newfoundland and Labrador on March 24, 2005 and on behalf of the Inuit of Labrador on March 15, 2005 and amendments made to it.

(2) Unless the context indicates otherwise, a word or term used in this Act shall have the same meaning as that word or term as defined in the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement.

2. The Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 8 the following:

Tax Treatment Agreement

8.1

(1) The Tax Treatment Agreement is ratified, given effect and declared valid and has the force of law during the period that it is in effect.

(2) The Tax Treatment Agreement does not form a part of the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement and is not a treaty or a land claims agreement within the meaning of sections 25 and 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 .

Commencement

3. This Act shall come into force on the date of the coming into force of the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act .

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