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Nunavut Land Claims Agreement


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Amendments to the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement

Preamble: Nunavut Land Claims Agreement


Table of Contents

  • Article 1: Definitions
  • Article 2: General Provisions
  • Article 3: Nunavut Settlement Area
  • Article 4: Nunavut Political Development
  • Article 5: Wildlife
  • Article 6: Wildlife Compensation
  • Article 7: Outpost Camps
  • Article 8: Parks
  • Article 9: Conservation Areas
  • Article 10: Land and Resource Management Institutions
  • Article 11: Land Use Planning
  • Article 12: Development Impact
  • Article 13: Water Management
  • Article 14: Municipal Lands
  • Article 15: Marine Areas
  • Article 16: Outer Land Fast Ice Zone - East Baffin Coast
  • Article 17: Purposes of Inuit Owned Lands
  • Article 18: Principles to Guide the Identification of Inuit Owned Lands
  • Article 19: Title to Inuit Owned Lands
  • Article 20: Inuit Water Rights
  • Article 21: Entry and Access
  • Article 22: Real Property Taxation
  • Article 23: Inuit Employment Within Government
  • Article 24: Government Contracts
  • Article 25: Resource Royalty Sharing
  • Article 26: Inuit Impact and Benefit Agreements
  • Article 27: Natural Resource Development
  • Article 28: Northern Energy and Minerals Accords
  • Article 29: Capital Transfer
  • Article 30: General Taxation
  • Article 31: The Nunavut Trust
  • Article 32: Nunavut Social Development Council
  • Article 33: Archaeology
  • Article 34: Ethnographic Objects and Archival Materials
  • Article 35: Enrolment
  • Article 36: Ratification
  • Article 37: Implementation
  • Article 38: Arbitration
  • Article 39: Inuit Organizations
  • Article 40: Other Aboriginal Peoples
  • Article 41: Contwoyto Lake Lands
  • Article 42: Manitoba and Marine Area East of Manitoba

For a printed copy, please contact
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Tel.: (819) 997-0380.
E-Mail: infopubs@ainc-inac.gc.ca

QS-8484-000-EE-A1
Catalogue No: R32-134/1993E
ISBN 0-662-20725-4

Published under the joint authority
of the Tungavik and the
Honourable Tom Siddon, P.C., M.P.,
Minister of Indian Affairs and
Northern Development Ottawa 1993


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