Part II - Enacted First Nations Legislation

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First Nations Tax Commission Commission de la fiscalite des premieres nations

The First Nations Tax Commission, pursuant to the First Nations

Fiscal Management Act, hereby approves the following law made by the

Kwikwetlem First Nation in the Province of British Columbia,

Kwikwetlem First Nation Annual Expenditure Amending Law, 2021

Dated at Victoria, British Columbia this 14th day of December, 2021.

On behalf of the First Nations Tax Commission

C.T. (Mann ) Ju s - Chief Commissioner ยท t Nations Tax Commission

KWIKWETLEM FIRST NATION ANNUAL EXPENDITURE AMENDING LAW, 2021 WHEREAS: A. Pursuant to section 5 of the First Nations Fiscal Management Act, the council of a first nation may make laws respecting taxation for local purposes of reserve lands and interests or rights in reserve lands, including laws authorizing the expenditure of local revenues; B. The Council of the First Nation has made a property assessment law and a property taxation law; C. Subsection l 0(2) of the First Nations Fiscal Management Act requires a first nation that has made a property taxation law to, at least once each year, make a law establishing a budget for the expenditure of revenues raised under its property taxation laws; and D. The Council of the First Nation enacted the Kwikwetlem First Nation Annual Expenditure Law, 2021 and now wishes to amend that law to authorize a new budget in the form attached to this Law.

NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Kwikwetlem First Nation duly enacts as follows: 1. This Law may be cited as the Kwikwetlem First Nation Annual Expenditure Amending Law, 2021. 2. The Kwikwetlem First Nation Annual Expenditure Law, 2021 is amended by deleting the Schedule to that law and replacing it with the Schedule attached to this Law.

3. Except where otherwise defined, words and expressions used in this Law have the meanings given to them in the Kwikwetlem First Nation Annual Expenditure Law, 2021.

4. This Law comes into force and effect on the day after it is approved by the First Nations Tax Commission. TIIlS LAW IS HEREBY DULY ENACTED by Council on the 151 day of December, 2021, at Coquitlam, in the Province of British Columbia.

A quorum of Council consists of two (2) members of Council. ~ Chief Ed Hall

SCHEDULE ANNUAL BUDGET

PARTl:REVENUES 1. Property tax revenues to be collected in budget year: a. Property Tax Revenues Total Revenues:

PART 2: EXPENDITURES 1. General Government Expenditures a. General Administrative b. BC Assessment 2. Protection Services a. Firefighting 3. Community Development a. Planning and Zoning 4. Contingency Amount

PART 3: ACCUMULATED SURPLUS/DEFICIT 1. Accumulated Surplus - revenues carried forward from the previous budget year

2. Accumulated Deficit - revenue expenditures carried forward from the previous budget year

$261,603.32 $261,603.32

6,000.00 5,000.00

23,216.20 222,155.00 5,232.12

$0

$0

BALANCE $0 Note: The following are the service agreements with third-party service providers, and the amounts indicated are the amounts payable by the First Nation under each agreement during the budget year

a.

City of Port Coquitlam-Firefighting protection

$23,216.20

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