<?xml version="1.0"?><Statute lims:pit-date="2019-07-15" hasPreviousVersion="true" lims:lastAmendedDate="2019-07-15" lims:current-date="2019-07-29" lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331665" lims:id="331665" bill-origin="commons" bill-type="govt-public" xml:lang="en" in-force="yes" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331666" lims:id="331666"><BillNumber>C-428</BillNumber><Parliament><Session>2</Session><Number>41</Number><RegnalYear><Year-s>62-63</Year-s><Monarch>Elizabeth II</Monarch></RegnalYear><Year-s>2013-2014</Year-s></Parliament><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331667" lims:id="331667">An Act to amend the Indian Act (publication of by-laws) and to provide for its replacement</LongTitle><ShortTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331668" lims:id="331668" status="official">Indian Act Amendment and Replacement Act</ShortTitle><RunningHead lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331669" lims:id="331669">Indian Act Amendment and Replacement</RunningHead><BillHistory lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331670" lims:id="331670"><Stages lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" stage="consolidation"><Date><YYYY>2019</YYYY><MM>7</MM><DD>30</DD></Date></Stages><Stages lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331672" lims:id="331672" stage="assented-to"><Date><YYYY>2014</YYYY><MM>12</MM><DD>16</DD></Date></Stages></BillHistory><Chapter lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331673" lims:id="331673"><ConsolidatedNumber official="no">I-5.3</ConsolidatedNumber><AnnualStatuteId><AnnualStatuteNumber>38</AnnualStatuteNumber><YYYY>2014</YYYY></AnnualStatuteId></Chapter><BillRefNumber date-time="2012-05-28">411608</BillRefNumber></Identification><Introduction lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331674" lims:id="331674"><Preamble lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331675" lims:id="331675" salutation="no"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331676" lims:id="331676" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331677" lims:id="331677">Preamble</MarginalNote><Text>Whereas the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="I-5">Indian Act</XRefExternal> is an outdated colonial statute, the application of which results in the people of Canada’s First Nations being subjected to differential treatment;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331678" lims:id="331678" format-ref="indent-0-0" list-item="no" language-align="no"><Text>Whereas the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="I-5">Indian Act</XRefExternal> does not provide an adequate legislative framework for the development of self-sufficient and prosperous First Nations’ communities;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331679" lims:id="331679" format-ref="indent-0-0" list-item="no" language-align="no"><Text>Whereas the Government of Canada is committed to the development of new legislation to replace the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="I-5">Indian Act</XRefExternal> that better reflects the modern relationship between it and the people of Canada’s First Nations;</Text></Provision><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331680" lims:id="331680" format-ref="indent-0-0" list-item="no" language-align="no"><Text>And whereas the Government of Canada is committed to continuing its work in exploring creative options for the development of this new legislation in collaboration with the First Nations that have demonstrated an interest in this work;</Text></Provision></Preamble><Enacts lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331681" lims:id="331681"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331682" lims:id="331682" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada enacts as follows:</Text></Provision></Enacts></Introduction><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331683" lims:id="331683"><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331684" lims:id="331684" level="1"><TitleText>Short Title</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331685" lims:id="331685"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331686" lims:id="331686">Short title</MarginalNote><Label>1</Label><Text>This Act may be cited as the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="I-5.3">Indian Act Amendment and Replacement Act</XRefExternal>.</Text></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331687" lims:id="331687" level="1"><TitleText>Report</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2019-07-15" lims:enacted-date="2019-06-21" lims:lastAmendedDate="2019-07-15" lims:fid="331688" lims:id="1191983"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2019-07-15" lims:enacted-date="2019-06-21" lims:fid="1191984" lims:id="1191984">Report by Ministers</MarginalNote><Label>2</Label><Text>Within the first 10 sitting days of the House of Commons in every calendar year, the Minister of Indigenous Services must report to the House of Commons committee responsible for Aboriginal affairs on the work undertaken by his or her department in collaboration with First Nations and other interested parties to develop new legislation to replace the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="I-5">Indian Act</XRefExternal>.</Text><HistoricalNote><HistoricalNoteSubItem lims:inforce-start-date="2019-07-15" lims:enacted-date="2019-06-21" lims:fid="1191986" lims:id="1191986">2014, c. 38, s. 2</HistoricalNoteSubItem><HistoricalNoteSubItem lims:inforce-start-date="2019-07-15" lims:enacted-date="2019-06-21" lims:fid="1191987" lims:id="1191987">2019, c. 29, s. 370</HistoricalNoteSubItem></HistoricalNote></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331690" lims:id="331690" level="1"><TitleText>Indian Act</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331691" lims:id="331691"><Label>3</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331692" lims:id="331692"><Label>4</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331693" lims:id="331693"><Label>5</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331694" lims:id="331694"><Label>6</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331695" lims:id="331695"><Label>7</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331696" lims:id="331696"><Label>8</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331697" lims:id="331697"><Label>9</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331698" lims:id="331698"><Label>10</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331699" lims:id="331699"><Label>11</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331700" lims:id="331700"><Label>12</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331701" lims:id="331701"><Label>13</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331702" lims:id="331702"><Label>14</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331703" lims:id="331703"><Label>15</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331704" lims:id="331704"><Label>16</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331705" lims:id="331705"><Label>17</Label><Text>[Amendment]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2014-12-16" lims:lastAmendedDate="2014-12-16" lims:fid="331706" lims:id="331706"><Label>18</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section></Body></Statute>