General Issues

First Nations Reserves

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The Residential Tenancies Branch can’t become involved in tenancy disagreements on reserve land.

A band can surrender, or give up, reserve land to a corporation. If the corporation then rents housing to tenants on this land, The Residential Tenancies Act applies.

A First Nations Band can set up a corporation with band members as shareholders in order to hold land off the reserve. The Residential Tenancies Act does apply when a First Nations Band Corporation is a landlord on non-reserve land.

Overview

This policy is included as information for band landlords renting to tenants off reserve land, tenants and officers. If a tenant and a band landlord aren’t able to solve a landlord and tenant problem on their own, they can ask the Branch for help.
 

Steps

1. The officer encourages the band and tenant to share information, and to discuss the problem, to try to come to some agreement.
    

2. When a band or tenant asks the Branch for help with a tenancy problem, the appropriate officer follows the procedures for:
    

   • mediation

   • hearings

For more information on Mediation, see this section.
For details on Hearings, see Section 11.
 

September, 1992*

March, 2004
 

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