373.41 Dedication And Vesting

• 373.41 (1) Section 107(1) does not apply in respect of a parcel of Nisga’a Lands.
• (2) Despite subsection (1), the deposit of a subdivision, reference or explanatory plan showing a portion of Nisga’a Lands as covered by water and as lying immediately adjacent to a lake, river, stream or other body of water not within land covered by the plan, and designated on the plan to be returned to the government, operates in the manner set out in section 107(1)(c) to (e).
• (3) The deposit of a subdivision, reference or explanatory plan showing a portion of Nisga’a Lands as a highway, park or public square, that is not designated on the plan to be of a private nature, operates

• (a) as an immediate and conclusive dedication by the owner to the public of that portion of the land shown as a highway, park or public square for the purpose indicated on or to be inferred from the words or markings on the plan,
• (b) to vest in the Nisga’a Nation or the applicable Nisga’a Village, subject to any Nisga’a law, title to the highway, park or public square, except any mineral resources, as defined in the Nisga’a Final Agreement, that are registered in the name of a person other than the owner, and
• (c) to extinguish the owner’s common law property, if any, in that portion of Nisga’a Lands.

1999-2-47, effective May 11, 2000 (B.C. Reg. 146/2000).