6.1. The Cree Nation Government may affirm its jurisdiction, on all or part of the Category II lands, with respect to any field of jurisdiction assigned by an Act to a local municipality or a regional county municipality.
For the purposes of the exercise of any jurisdiction so affirmed, the Cree Nation Government acts as a local municipality governed by the Cities and Towns Act (chapter C-19) or as a regional county municipality, as the case may be, and is governed by the Acts applicable to such a municipality, subject to this Act.