An Act to amend the Territorial Lands Act
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Lori Idlout

First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament,

70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-326
An Act to amend the Territorial Lands Act

FIRST READING, March 10, 2023

Ms. Idlout

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SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Territorial Lands Act to authorize the Governor in Council to make regulations for the acquisition of mining rights in, under or on territorial lands and to require that any such regulations must provide for the free, prior and informed consent of Inuit and of any other Indigenous peoples who would be directly affected.

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1st Session, 44th Parliament,

70-71 Elizabeth II – 1 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023

HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA

BILL C-326

An Act to amend the Territorial Lands Act

His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

R.‍S.‍, c. T-7

Territorial Lands Act

1Section 12 of the Territorial Lands Act is replaced by the following:

Acquisition of mining rights

12The Governor in Council may make regulations for the Insertion start acquisition Insertion end of mining rights in, under or on territorial lands and the payment of royalties Insertion start in respect of the acquisition Insertion end , but such regulations shall
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    (a)provide that any such acquisition requires the free, prior and informed consent of Inuit and of any other Indigenous peoples who would be directly affected by it; and

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  • Insertion start (b) Insertion end provide for the protection of and compensation to the holders of surface rights.

Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons