Yukon Surface Rights Board Act — Y-4.3 2
ou ressources halieutiques ) gas means natural gas and includes all substances, other than oil, that are produced in association with natural gas; ( gaz ) Government means the Government of Canada or the Government of the Yukon Territory, or both, depending on which has responsibility for the matter in question; ( gouvernement ) harvesting means gathering, hunting, trapping or fishing in accordance with a final agreement or the Transboundary Agreement; ( exploitation ) mineral right means a licence, permit or other right to explore for, locate, develop, produce or transport minerals, other than specified substances, and to enter on land for those purposes; ( droit minier ) minerals means precious and base metals and other non-living, naturally occurring substances, whether solid, liquid or gaseous, and includes coal, oil, gas and specified substances; ( minéraux ) mines means mines, opened and unopened; ( mines ) Minister means the Minister of Northern Affairs; ( ministre fédéral ) navigable water means a stream, river, lake, sea or other body of water, used or capable of being used by the public for navigation by boats, kayaks, canoes, rafts or other small craft, or log booms on a continuous or seasonal basis, and includes any parts of those bodies of water interrupted by occasional natural obstructions or bypassed by portages; ( navigable ) new mineral right means any mineral right, other than an existing mineral right; ( droit minier nouveau ) non-settlement land means all land and water in the Yukon Territory, other than settlement land, and includes mines and minerals, other than specified substances, in category B settlement land and in fee simple settlement land; ( terre non désignée ) oil means crude oil, regardless of gravity, produced at a well head in liquid form, and any other hydrocarbons, other than coal and gas, and includes hydrocarbons that may be extracted or recovered from deposits of oil sand, bituminous sand, oil shale or from any other type of deposits on the surface or subsurface; ( pétrole ) person means a natural person or an artificial entity capable of having rights or obligations and includes a Government or the government of a province or of a foreign state or any subdivision thereof; ( personne ) self-government agreement means an agreement referred to in Part II of Schedule I; ( accord sur l’autonomie gouvernementale ) settlement land means category A settlement land, category B settlement land or fee simple settlement land; ( terre désignée ) specified substances means carving stone, flint, limestone, marble, gypsum, shale, slate, clay, sand, gravel, construction stone, sodium chloride, volcanic ash, earth, soil, diatomaceous earth, ochre, marl and peat; ( matières spécifiées ) Territorial Minister means, in respect of any provision of this Act, such minister of the Yukon Territory as is designated by the Commissioner of the Yukon Territory for the purposes of that provision; ( ministre territorial ) traditional territory means, with respect to a Yukon first nation, the geographic area within the Yukon Territory identified as that Yukon first nation’s traditional territory on the map for that purpose set out in Appendix B to the final agreement of that Yukon first nation; ( territoire traditionnel ) Transboundary Agreement means the Yukon Transboundary Agreement, set out in Appendix C to the Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement between Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada and the Gwich’in, as represented by the Gwich’in Tribal Council, that was approved, given effect and declared valid by the Gwich’in Land Claim Settlement Act , and includes any amendments made to it from time to time in accordance with its provisions; ( accord transfrontalier ) undeveloped settlement land means all settlement land that has not been designated as developed settlement land in or pursuant to a final agreement or pursuant to section 63 or a self-government agreement; ( terre désignée non aménagée ) waterfront rig