RENEWABLE RESOURCES BOARD. (a) A Renewable Resources Board shall be established to be the main instrument of wildlife management in the settlement area. The Board shall act in the public interest. (b) The Board shall be established by virtue of settlement legislation at the date thereof. (c) Wildlife shall be managed in the settlement area in accordance with this agreement including its objectives. 13.8.2 (a) Where, by legislation, any other renewable resources board ("the new board") is established having jurisdiction in an area within the Mackenzie Valley which includes the settlement area: (i) the new board shall assume the powers and responsibilities of the Board; (ii) the Board shall merge with and become a regional panel of the new board. The regional panel shall be reduced to five members of which two shall be nominees of the Sahtu Tribal Council; (iii) the regional panel shall exercise the powers of the Board except that where, in the opinion of the new board, any decision or recommendation may affect renewable resources in an area within the jurisdiction of the new board outside the settlement area, the decision or recommendation shall be made by the new board. At least one member of the new board making such a decision or recommendation shall be a nominee of the Sahtu Tribal Council; and (iv) decisions of the regional panel shall be decisions of the new board and subject to review by the Minister in the same manner as decisions of the Board.
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Sources: Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement, Comprehensive Land Claim Agreement