M-13.1, r. 2 - Mining Regulation

Section 42.1 Disposition versions

2015-12-31

42.1. A member of the monitoring committee to foster the involvement of the local community in the project as a whole is deemed not to be independent

(1)  if the member has direct or indirect relations or interests of a financial or commercial nature with the lessee;

(2)  if the member is employed by the Ministère de l’Énergie et des Ressources naturelles or by the Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques;

(3)  if the member is or was, during the 2 years preceding the date of appointment, employed by the lessee or by one of the lessee’s wholly-owned subsidiaries or if the member is related to a person holding such employment.

For the purposes of this section, “related person” means persons connected by blood relationship, marriage, civil union, de facto union or adoption.

O.C. 1065-2015, s. 24.