Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management Act Sample Contracts

Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management Act August 2023
Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management Act • August 16th, 2023

The purpose of the First Nations Land Management Act (“FNLMA”) as it was called then, was to ratify and bring into effect the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management (“Framework Agreement”), and it received royal assent on June 17, 1999. However, this FNLMA was replaced by the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management Act (“FAFNLMA”) on December 15, 2022 as it was appropriate to enact a new implementation Act to replace the FNLMA to reflect the primacy and significance of the Framework Agreement, while also ensuring the continuity with the previous legal framework.

Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management Act
Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management Act • January 16th, 2023

Whereas Her Majesty in right of Canada and 13 First Nations signed the Framework Agreement on First Nation Land Management on February 12, 1996 in relation to the management by those First Nations of their lands, and other First Nations have signed the Framework Agreement after that date;