166. Each Cree village corporation and each Band shall appoint a person to exercise respectively on Category IB and IA lands situated within the territory contemplated in section 133, the functions, duties and powers conferred upon the Minister by this division, in the place and stead of the latter.
The persons appointed under this section shall not have, however, any jurisdiction over projects contemplated by paragraphs a and d of section 35 of the Act respecting the land regime in the James Bay and New Québec territories (chapter R-13.1). The assessment and review procedure relating to these projects falls within the jurisdiction of the Minister.
1978, c. 94, s. 4; 1979, c. 49, s. 33; 1988, c. 49, s. 38.