2nd Session, 42nd Parliament

(2021) FIRST READING

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HONOURABLE DAVID EBY

ATTORNEY GENERAL AND MINISTER

RESPONSIBLE FOR HOUSING

BILL 29 – 2021

INTERPRETATION AMENDMENT ACT, 2021

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

SECTION 1: [Interpretation Act,

section 8.1] adds a

section respecting

section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

1 The

Interpretation Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 238, is amended by adding the following section:

Section 35 of Constitution Act, 1982 and Declaration

8.1

(1) In this section:

"Declaration" has the same meaning as in the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act ;

"Indigenous peoples" has the same meaning as in the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act ;

"regulation" has the same meaning as in the Regulations Act .

(2) For certainty, every enactment must be construed as upholding and not abrogating or derogating from the aboriginal and treaty rights of Indigenous peoples as recognized and affirmed by

section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 .

(3) Every Act and regulation must be construed as being consistent with the Declaration.

Commencement

2 This Act comes into force on the date of Royal Assent.

Explanatory Notes

SECTION 1: [Interpretation Act,

section 8.1] adds a

section respecting

section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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