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FIRST NATIONS TAX COMMISSION COMMISSION DE LA FISCALITE DES PREM IERES NATIONS
The First Nations Tax Commission, pursuant to the First Nations Fiscal Management Act, hereby approves the fo llowing law made by the Pheasant Rump Nakota First Nation in the Province of Saskatchewan,
PHEASANT RUMP NAKOTA FIRST NATION ANNUAL EXPENDITURE LAW, 2022
Dated at Kamloops, British Columbia this 20th day of October, 2022.
~/, rueJC~C .T. (Manny) Ju les On beha lf of the First Nations Tax Commission
PHEASANT RUMP NAKOT A FIRST NATION ANNUAL EXPENDITURE LAW, 2022 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 10(2) of the First Nations Fiscal Management Act requires a first nation that has made a property taxation law or a law under paragraph 5(1 )(a. l) to make, at least once each year, a law establishing a budget for the expenditure of revenues raised under those laws; and
D. The Council of the First Nation wishes to establish an annual budget for the expenditure ofrevenues raised in the current taxation year, and wishes to authorize expenditures made in accordance with section 13.1 of the Act;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Pheasant Rump Nakata First Nation duly enacts as follows: 1. This Law may be cited as the Pheasant Rump Nakata First Nation Annual Expenditure Law, 2022. 2. In this Law: "Act" means the First Nations Fiscal Management Act, S.C. 2005, c. 9, and the regulations made under that Act;
"annual budget" means a budget setting out the projected local revenues and projected expenditures of those local revenues during a budget year, and setting out expenditures made in accordance with section 13. l of the Act;
"Assessment Law" means the Pheasant Rump Nakata First Nation Property Assessment Law, 2016; "Council" has the meaning given to that term in the Act; "First Nation" means the Pheasant Rump Nakata First Nation, being a band named in the schedule to the Act;
"Law" means this annual expenditure law enacted under paragraph 5( I )(b) of the Act as required by subsection l 0(2) of the Act;
"local revenues" means money raised by the First Nation under a local revenue law and payments made to a First Nation in lieu of a tax imposed by a law made under paragraph 5(1)(a) of the Act;
"property taxation law" means a law enacted by the First Nation under paragraph 5(1)(a) of the Act; and "Taxation Law" means the Pheasant Rump Nakata First Nation Property Taxation Law, 2016. 3. The First Nation's annual budget for the budget year beginning April 1, 2022, and ending March 31, 2023, is attached as a Schedule and the expenditures provided for in the Schedule are authorized.
4. Expenditures of local revenues must be made only in accordance with the annual budget or in accordance with section 13. l of the Act.
5. The expenditures made in the current year before this Law is enacted are included in the annual budget and are authorized by this Law.
6. Where the First Nation wishes to authorize an expenditure not authorized in this Law, or change the amount of an expenditure authorized, Council must amend this Law in accordance with Council procedure and the requirements of the Act.
7. This Law authorizes the expenditure of contingency amounts as necessary within any of the categories of expenditures set out in the Schedule.
8. Except where otherwise defined, words and expressions used in this Law have the meanings given to them in the Assessment Law and the Taxation Law.
9. Where a provision in this Law is expressed in the present tense, the provision applies to the circumstances as they arise.
10. This Law must be construed as being remedial and must be given such fair, large and liberal construction and interpretation as best ensures the attainment of its objectives. 11.(1) The Schedule attached to this Law, including any Appendices, forms part of and is an integral part of this Law.
(2) A reference to the Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to this Law. 12. This Law comes into force and effect on the day after it is approved by the First Nations Tax Commission. / _ THIS LAW IS HEREBY DULY ENACTED by Council on the ..'.(8 day of 5-+, f!!,wibt,V, 2022, at the Pheasant Rump Nakota band administration office, in the Province of Saskatcewan.
A quorum of Council consists of three (3) members of Council. Signatures attesting to the enactment of this Law:
Councillor Sheila Knebush
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Approval, and witness to signatures:
Chief Ira McArthur
REVENUES
Property Tax TOT AL REVENUES
SCHEDULE ANNUAL BUDGET
$40,144 $40,144
EXPENDITURES
General Government
Protection Service
Environment Health Services
Contingency
TOT AL EXPENSES
Accumulated Deficit
$36,981
$1,000
$1,663
$500
$40,144
$0
$40,144
BALANCE
$0