Order Amending the Sechelt Indian Band Constitution (SOR/2019-307)

Whereas subsection 10(1) of the Sechelt Indian Band Self-Government Act (“Act”) provides that the constitution of the Sechelt Indian Band (“Band”) shall be in writing;

Whereas paragraph 10(1)(d) of the Act provides that the constitution of the Band may include a membership code for the Band;

Whereas paragraph 10(1)(e) of the Act provides that the constitution of the Band may establish rules and procedures relating to the holding of referenda of the Band;

Whereas paragraph 14(1)(s) of the Act provides that the Band Council has, to the extent that it is authorized by the constitution of the Band to do so, the power to make laws in relation to the conduct of Band elections and referenda;

Whereas section 12 of the Act provides that the Governor in Council may, on the advice of the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, by order, declare in force an amendment to the constitution of the Band if the amendment has been approved in a referendum held in accordance with the constitution of the Band and the Governor in Council approves the amendment;

And whereas in a referendum held in accordance with the constitution of the Band on May 25, 2019, the Band approved the amendments to the constitution as summarized in the attached schedule;

Therefore, Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the advice of the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, pursuant to section 12 of the Sechelt Indian Band Self-Government Act, approves and declares in force the amendments to the constitution of the Sechelt Indian Band approved by the Band in a referendum held on May 25, 2019, as summarized in the attached schedule.