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PERSONAL PROPERTY SECURITY INTERESTS ON LANDS RESERVED FOR FIRST NATIONS

dc.contributor.advisorCuming, Ronald CC
dc.contributor.committeeMemberBangsund, Clayton
dc.contributor.committeeMemberHeavin, Heather
dc.contributor.committeeMemberLund, Anna
dc.contributor.committeeMemberPlaxton, Michael
dc.creatorHitchings, Scott
dc.creator.orcid0000-0003-2018-6685
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-15T23:06:46Z
dc.date.available2020-10-15T23:06:46Z
dc.date.created2021-05
dc.date.issued2020-10-15
dc.date.submittedMay 2021
dc.date.updated2020-10-15T23:06:46Z
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis I examine the issues encountered by First Nations persons and bands when attempting to use assets that are personal property, as defined by the Personal Property Security Act, 1993 and similar Acts in Canadian jurisdictions, as security in secured financing arrangements. Subsection 89(1) of the Indian Act prohibits personal property of a First Nation person or band that is located on reserved lands from acting as collateral, unless it is in favour of another First Nation person or band. The result of this subsection has been that First Nation persons and bands have limited access to credit for personal or business purposes. I argue that a solution needs to be found to this problem. The solution could take the form of legislative reform from comprehensive changes to the systems regulating secured transactions on First Nations reserved lands, to more simple changes that allow a First Nation person or band to waive the application of the section to their transaction or property. Another solution I explore is that a line of jurisprudence in which a commercial exception has been considered is accepted to be valid law, which would allow First Nation persons and bands to operate under the presumption that commercial assets are exempt from the Indian Act prohibition.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/13100
dc.subjectIndigenous
dc.subjectcommercial
dc.subjectFirst Nation
dc.subjectSecured finance
dc.subjectsecured financing
dc.subjectpersonal property security
dc.subjectsecurity interest
dc.subjectcollateral
dc.subjectsubsection 89(1)
dc.subjectIndian Act
dc.titlePERSONAL PROPERTY SECURITY INTERESTS ON LANDS RESERVED FOR FIRST NATIONS
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentLaw
thesis.degree.disciplineLaw
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewan
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Laws (LL.M.)

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