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Yukon Canada Ministerial Order No. 2020/16 Civil Emergency Measures Act – Self-isolation exception for traditional activities (COVID-19).

Country/Territory
Canada
Territorial subdivision
Yukon
Document type
Regulation
Date
2020
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Fisheries, Wild species & ecosystems, General
Keyword
Wild fauna Hazards Indigenous peoples Traditional rights/customary rights Fishery management and conservation Inland fisheries Marine fisheries Hunting/capture
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

Despite sections 1 and 2 of the Civil Emergency Measures Health Protection (COVID-19) Order, an individual is not required to self-isolate as described in those sections when they enter Yukon, if the individual meets the following conditions: (a) the purpose of the individual’s entry into Yukon is to engage in the exercise of aboriginal and treaty rights referred to in section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, as follows: (i) the individual is an Inuvialuk and the rights that they exercise while in Yukon are treaty rights under the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, (ii) the individual is a Tetlit Gwich’in and the rights that they exercise while in Yukon are treaty rights under Appendix C of the Gwich’in Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement, (iii) the individual is a member of any of the Transboundary First Nations and the rights that they exercise while in Yukon are aboriginal rights that are exercised within the associated asserted traditional territories in Yukon of the Transboundary First Nation of which the individual is a member; (b) the individual, while in Yukon, engages in the exercise of those rights.

Full text
English
Website
www.gov.yk.ca

References - Legislation

Implements

Civil Emergency Measures Act.

Legislation | Canada | 2002

Keyword: Public health, Hazards, Risk assessment/management

Source: FAO, FAOLEX