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Bill C-19

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    (b) the first nation adopts regulations referred to in paragraph (a) under section 36 of that Act, and

    (c) the coming into force of a code made by the first nation under section 7 of that Act.

(8) On the latest of the coming into force of section 31 of this Act, the coming into force of subsection 4(4) of this Act and the day on which the other Act receives royal assent, subsection 11(5) of the other Act is replaced by the following:

Exception

(5) A band law referred to in subsection (1) does not apply in respect of

    (a) any decision from which a code provides a right of appeal;

    (b) an appeal referred to in paragraph 4(4)(a) of the First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act; or

    (c) a request for a review made under section 31 of that Act.

(9) On the later of the day on which this Act receives royal assent and the coming into force of subsection 10(3) of the other Act, section 51 of this Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (6):

Sharing of information

(7) On assuming third-party management of a first nation's local revenues, if the Minister is exercising powers under subsection 10(3) of the First Nations Governance Act, the Board may disclose to the Minister any information regarding the first nation's local revenues that the Board considers advisable.

(10) If section 149 of this Act is not in force on the day on which section 51 of the other Act comes into force, then, on that day, section 149 of this Act is repealed.

(11) On the later of the coming into force of section 51 of this Act and the day on which the other Act receives royal assent, section 10 of the other Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (3):

Exception

(4) An assessment referred to in subsection (3) and any remedial measures referred to in that subsection do not extend to a local revenue law made, or a local revenue account established, under the First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act.

Notice to Minister

(5) Where the Minister undertakes an assessment under subsection (3) in respect of a band that is a borrowing member as defined in subsection 2(1) of the First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act, the Minister shall advise the First Nations Financial Management Board of that fact.

Sharing of information

(6) In exercising the Minister's powers under subsection (3), if the First Nations Financial Management Board is also exercising powers under section 50 or 51 of the First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act, the Minister may disclose to the Board any information regarding the first nation's financial position that the Minister considers advisable.

(12) On the later of the coming into force of section 150 of this Act and the day on which the other Act receives royal assent,

    (a) section 14 of the other Act is replaced by the following:

Limitation of liability

14. No civil proceedings lie against a member of a council or an employee of a band for anything done, or omitted to be done, in the exercise or purported exercise in good faith of any power, or in the performance or purported performance in good faith of any duty, in accordance with this Act, the Indian Act, regulations made under either Act, a code or a band law made under this Act.

    (b) section 54 of the other Act is repealed.

(13) On the later of the coming into force of section 44 of the other Act and the coming into force of section 150 of this Act, section 4.1 of the Indian Act is replaced by the following:

Provisions that apply to all band members

4.1 A reference to an Indian in any of the following provisions is deemed to include a reference to any person whose name is entered in a Band List or who is entitled to have it entered therein: the definitions ``band'', ``Indian moneys'' and ``mentally incompetent Indian'' in section 2, subsections 4(2) and (3) and 18(2), sections 20 and 22 to 25, subsections 31(1) and (3) and 35(4), sections 51, 52, 52.2 and 52.3, subsections 58(3) and 61(1), sections 63 and 65, subsections 66(2) and 70(1) and (4), paragraph 87(1)(a), section 88, subsection 89(1) and paragraph 107(b).

(14) On the latest of the coming into force of section 53 of the other Act, the coming into force of section 55 of the other Act and the coming into force of section 150 of this Act, the heading after section 80 of the Indian Act is repealed.

(15) On the later of the coming into force of section 56 of the other Act and the coming into force of section 152 of this Act, section 88 of the Indian Act is replaced by the following:

General provincial laws applicable to Indians

88. Subject to the terms of any treaty and any other Act of Parliament, all laws of general application from time to time in force in any province are applicable to and in respect of Indians in the province, except to the extent that those laws are inconsistent with this Act, the First Nations Fiscal and Statistical Management Act or the First Nations Governance Act, or any order, rule, regulation, band law or law of a first nation made under those Acts, and except to the extent that those provincial laws make provision for any matter for which provision is made by or under those Acts.

Coming into Force

Coming into force

155. The provisions of this Act, other than section 154, come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.