Nunavut Waters and Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal Act (S.C. 2002, c. 10)

Marginal note:Loss or damage

• 153. (1) Subject to this section, a developer is absolutely liable, without proof of fault or negligence, for any of the following losses or damage suffered by a claimant as a result of a development activity of the developer:

  • (a) loss of or damage to property or equipment used in harvesting wildlife or to wildlife that has been harvested;

  • (b) present and future loss of income from the harvesting of wildlife; and

  • (c) present and future loss of wildlife harvested for personal use by claimants.

• Marginal note:Exceptions

  (2) A developer is not liable under subsection (1)

  • (a) where the developer establishes that the loss or damage was wholly the result of an act of war, hostilities, a civil war, an insurrection or a natural phenomenon of an exceptional, inevitable and irresistible character;

  • (b) where the loss or damage was caused by a ship, to the extent that the developer would not, but for subsection (1), have been liable as a result of a defence or limitation of liability available at law; or

  • (c) to the extent that the aggregate loss or damage for each incident exceeds the applicable limit of liability prescribed by, or determined pursuant to, regulations under paragraph 170(e).

• Marginal note:Claim

  (3) Any claim for compensation by a claimant, or by a designated Inuit organization or a Hunters and Trappers Organization, within the meaning assigned to that expression by section 1.1.1 of the Agreement, acting on behalf of the claimant, for loss or damage described in subsection (1) shall be made in writing to the developer within three years after the later of the date on which the loss or damage occurs and the date on which it comes to the knowledge of the claimant.

• Marginal note:Compensation

  (4) The following principles apply to the determination of the amount of compensation payable as a result of loss or damage described in subsection (1):

  • (a) a claimant is required to make all reasonable attempts to mitigate any loss or damage; and

  • (b) in general, compensation shall not be a guaranteed annual income in perpetuity.

Marginal note:Liability of Minister

• 154. (1) Without limiting the liability of the Minister where the Minister is the person engaged in the development activity or the owner of the ship that caused the loss or damage, the Minister is liable, in relation to any loss or damage that is attributable to marine transportation as described in paragraph (c) of the definition “development activity” in subsection 152(1) other than that resulting from a discharge of oil from a ship, for any portion of the loss or damage for which a developer is not liable because of the application of paragraph 153(2)(b) and for which no other person is liable.

• Marginal note:Liability of Fund

  (2) In relation to loss or damage resulting from a discharge of oil from a ship that is engaged in marine transportation as described in paragraph (c) of the definition “development activity” in subsection 152(1), the Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund established under Part 6 of the Marine Liability Act is liable to the same extent that a developer would be liable under section 153 if paragraph 153(2)(b) did not apply.

• Marginal note:Subrogation

  (3) The Administrator of the Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund is subrogated, to the extent of any payment made by the Fund under subsection (2), to any rights of the claimant in respect of the loss or damage for which that payment was made and, for that purpose, the Administrator may maintain an action in the Administrator’s name or in the name of the claimant.