Naskapi and the Cree-Naskapi Commission Act

Marginal note:Agreements for policing services

• 196 (1) A band may, with the approval of the Attorney General of Quebec and the provincial Minister responsible for municipal affairs, enter into an agreement with

  • (a) Quebec,

  • (b) the Cree Regional Authority,

  • (c) the Kativik Regional Government (within the meaning of An Act concerning Northern Villages and the Kativik Regional Government (Quebec)),

  • (d) a Cree village corporation (within the meaning of The Cree and Naskapi Villages Act (Quebec)), or

  • (e) any other body empowered to provide policing services

  for the provision of policing services on its Category IA or IA-N land.

• Marginal note:Cree bands

  (1.1) Despite subsection (1), in the case of a Cree band, the band shall obtain the approval of the Cree Regional Authority before it enters into an agreement with a body referred to in any of paragraphs (1)(a) and (c) to (e).

• Marginal note:Jurisdiction of police forces

  (2) A police force and the members thereof providing policing services pursuant to an agreement made under subsection (1) have jurisdiction over the Category IA or IA-N land of the band for the purposes of enforcing the applicable laws of Canada and Quebec and the applicable by-laws of the band.