First

Session, 47th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2012

BILL 23

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

NICK MCGRATH

Minister of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act

ensure that Water Lots and Labrador Inuit Lands

in the Inuit Communities are included in the description of Labrador Inuit

Lands;

correct potential discrepancies

between the legal descriptions and the maps of a small parcel of Labrador Inuit

Lands in the area of the Hopedale airstrip; and

amend the Map Atlas and

appendices that form part of the

Schedule to the Act and which are on file with

the Crown Lands Division of the Department of Environment and Conservation.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LABRADOR INUIT

LAND CLAIMS AGREEMENT ACT

Analysis

Sch. Amdt.

Sch. Amdt.

Sch. Amdt.

Map atlas and appendices Amdt.

Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2004 cL-3.1

as amended

Section 4.3.1 of the

Schedule to the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act

is repealed and the following substituted:

4.3.1 The

boundaries of Labrador Inuit Lands on the Effective Date are set out in the Map

Atlas (shown for illustrative purposes only in Schedules 4-B and 4-

D) and

described in Appendix A-3

Part 2, Appendix A-3

Part 4, Appendix B-1 Parts 3 and

4, Appendix B-2 Parts 3 and 4, Appendix B-3 Parts 3 and 4, Appendix B-4 Parts 3

and 4 and Appendix B-5 Parts 3 and 4.

2. Subsection 4.4.3(

a) of the

Schedule to the Act

is repealed and the following substituted:

(

a) the sea bed within the boundaries of Water

Lots set out in the Map Atlas (shown for illustrative purposes only in

Schedule

4-

D) and described in Appendix A-3

Part 4, Appendix B-1

Part 4, Appendix B-2

Part 4, Appendix B-3

Part 4, Appendix B-4

Part 4 and Appendix B-5

Part 4, but

does not include ownership of Tidal Waters above the sea bed within the

boundaries of the Water Lots; and

Schedule 17-B of the

Schedule to the Act is

repealed and the following substituted:

4. The Map Atlas and appendices which form part of

the

Schedule to the Act and which are

on file with Crown Lands Division of the Department of Environment and Conservation

are amended as set out in a Memorandum of Agreement dated April 20, 2012

between the Inuit of Labrador as represented by the Nunatsiavut Government, Her

Majesty the Queen in right of Newfoundland and Labrador and Her Majesty the

Queen in right of Canada and which is on file with Crown Lands Division of the

Department of Environment and Conservation.

Commencement

(1) This Act comes into force on a day to

be proclaimed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), sections 1, 2

and 3 of this Act and sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 24 and 25 of the Memorandum

of Agreement referenced in

section 4 are considered to have come into force on

December 1, 2005.

William E. Parsons, Queen's Printer