Northwest Territories Act — N-27.05 18
Subjects 18 (1) The Legislature may make laws in relation to the following subjects in respect of the Northwest Territories: (a) the election of members of the Legislative Assembly, including the name and number of electoral districts and the qualifications of electors and candidates; (b) the disqualification of persons from sitting or voting as members of the Legislative Assembly and the privileges, indemnities and expenses of those members; (c) the Executive Council; (d) the establishment and tenure of public offices and the appointment, conditions of employment and payment of office-holders; (e) municipal and local institutions; (f) direct taxation and licensing in order to raise revenue for territorial, municipal or local purposes; (g) the levying of a tax on furs — or any other parts of fur-bearing animals — that are to be shipped or taken from the Northwest Territories to any place outside the Northwest Territories; (h) the incorporation of companies with territorial objects, except railway — other than street railway —, steamship, air transport, telegraph and telephone companies; (i) the solemnization of marriage; (j) property and civil rights; (k) the administration of justice, including the constitution, maintenance and organization of territorial courts — of both civil and criminal jurisdiction — and procedure in civil matters in those courts; (l) the establishment, maintenance and management of prisons and other places of confinement; (m) the conservation of wildlife and its habitat; (n) waters — the rights in respect of which are under the administration and control of the Commissioner — including the disposition under subsection 52(3) of those rights, the deposit of waste in those waters and what constitutes waste; (o) education, but any law respecting education must provide that (i) a majority of the ratepayers of any part of the Northwest Territories may establish any school in that part that they think fit and make the necessary assessment and collection of rates for it, and (ii) the minority of the ratepayers of that part of the Northwest Territories — whether Protestant or Roman Catholic — may establish separate schools in that part and, if they do so, are liable to assessments of only the rates that they impose on themselves in respect of those schools; (p) immigration; (q) those public lands that are under the administration and control of the Commissioner, including their disposition under subsection 51(1); (r) intoxicants, including what constitutes an intoxicant; (s) hospitals and charities; (t) agriculture; (u) the entering into of intergovernmental agreements by the Commissioner or any other official of the Government of the Northwest Territories; (v) the expenditure of money for territorial purposes; (w) the adoption and use of an official seal; (x) generally, all matters of a merely local or private nature; (y) the imposition of fines, penalties, imprisonment or other punishments in respect of a contravention of a provision of a law of the Legislature; and (z) any other subject that may be designated by order of the Governor in Council. Laws — intoxicants (2) The Legislature may make laws relating to the importation of intoxicants into the Northwest Territories from another part of Canada or elsewhere and defining what constitutes an intoxicant for the purposes of those laws.