Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act

Marginal note:Tenure

• 11 (1) A member of the Board holds office during good behaviour but may be removed by the federal minister for cause or on any other ground set out in the by-laws of the Board.

• Marginal note:Loss of resident status

  (2) The federal minister shall remove a member from office, in conformity with the regulations, if the federal minister determines that, because of a change in that member’s place of residence, the requirements of section 9 are no longer met.

• Marginal note:Consultation by federal minister

  (3) Before a member nominated by the Council or the territorial minister is removed from office, the federal minister shall consult the Council or the territorial minister, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Acting after removal of member

  (4) If a member is a member of the executive committee or of a panel of the Board and, while that committee or panel is conducting a screening or review of a project, they are removed from office under subsection (2) before a decision document is issued by each decision body to whom the committee or panel has made a recommendation in respect of that project, they may — in accordance with the by-laws of the Board or, in the absence of an applicable by-law, the direction of the Chairperson — continue to perform their functions in relation to that screening or review until those decision documents are issued. For the purpose of the appointment of a replacement, the member’s office is considered to be vacant as soon as they are removed from office.