S-2Senate Government BillRoyal Assent ✓

Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act

An Act respecting family homes situated on First Nation reserves and matrimonial interests or rights in or to structures and lands situated on those reserves

Sen. Marjory LeBretonFormer senator — no longer in the chamber

Latest completed stage: Royal Assent

Introduced 5424 days ago

41st Parliament, 1st Session

Summary

This enactment provides for the adoption of First Nation laws and the establishment of provisional rules and procedures that apply during a conjugal relationship, when that relationship breaks down or on the death of a spouse or common-law partner, respecting the use, occupation and possession of family homes on First Nation reserves and the division of the value of any interests or rights held by spouses or common-law partners in or to structures and lands on those reserves.

Event Timeline

Senate First Reading
Sep 28, 2011Senate
Senate Second Reading
Nov 1, 2011Senate
Senate Third Reading
Dec 1, 2011Senate
House First Reading
Dec 8, 2011House

Statutes Touched by This Bill

Amends

Repeals

Gov't

PMB

Senate

Inactive

Node size = progression

S-2 touches 7 statutes

Coming into Force


Unknown	Unspecified provisions	Other	—	11(1)
Unknown	Unspecified provisions	Other	—	11(2)
Unknown	Unspecified provisions	Other	—	11(3)
Unknown	Unspecified provisions	Other	—	11(4)
Unknown	Unspecified provisions	Other	—	11(5)
Unknown	Unspecified provisions	Other	—	11(6)
Unknown	Entire Act · 56 sections	Order in council	—	56(1)
Unknown	Power of First Nations; Occupation; Emergency Protection Order + 6 moreSections 7, 12–52 · 42 sections	Other	—	56(2)

Select a row to see how its date was determined. Commencement orders are tracked from January 2016 onward — provisions of older statutes may show as Unknown.

Regulatory Activity

Indian Act · 137 entries

Date	Part	Type	Title	Instrument / Sponsor
Jun 17, 2026	II	Regulation	Order Amending the Indian Bands Council Elections Order (Lac Seul)	SOR/2026-132
May 28, 2026	II	Regulation

Criminal Code · 81 entries

Date	Part	Type	Title	Instrument / Sponsor
Jun 9, 2026	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities	SOR/2026-117
Jun 5, 2026	II	Regulation	Order Amending Certain Orders Declaring an Amnesty Period	SOR/2026-114
Mar 9, 2026	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Pari-Mutuel Betting Supervision Regulations	SOR/2026-44
Dec 17, 2025	II	Order	Order Accepting the Recommendation of the Minister Regarding the List of Entities	SI/2025-111
Dec 4, 2025	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities	SOR/2025-250
Dec 8, 2025	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities	SOR/2025-263
Oct 10, 2025	II	Regulation	Order Amending Certain Orders Made Under the Criminal Code	SOR/2025-208
Sep 28, 2025	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities	SOR/2025-201
Mar 7, 2025	II	Regulation	Order Declaring an Amnesty Period (2025)	SOR/2025-87
Mar 7, 2025	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Prescribing Certain Firearms and Other Weapons, Components and Parts of Weapons, Accessories, Cartridge Magazines, Ammunition and Projectiles as Prohibited or Restricted	SOR/2025-86
Feb 19, 2025	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities	SOR/2025-31
Dec 5, 2024	II	Regulation	Order Declaring an Amnesty Period (2024)	SOR/2024-249
Dec 5, 2024	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Prescribing Certain Firearms and Other Weapons, Components and Parts of Weapons, Accessories, Cartridge Magazines, Ammunition and Projectiles as Prohibited or Restricted	SOR/2024-248
Nov 29, 2024	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities	SOR/2024-236
Oct 11, 2024	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities	SOR/2024-204
Jun 27, 2024	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities	SOR/2024-156
Jun 18, 2024	II	Regulation	Establishing a List of Entities — Regulations Amending the Regulations	SOR/2024-139
Jun 18, 2024	II	Regulation	Establishing a List of Entities — Regulations Amending the Regulations	SOR/2024-140
Jul 3, 2024	II	Order	Order Accepting the Recommendation of the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness that each listed entity set out in the annexed Schedule 1 remain a listed entity and that the entity in Schedule 2 no longer remain a listed entity	SI/2024-29
May 31, 2024	II	Regulation	Criminal Interest Rate Regulations	SOR/2024-114
May 9, 2024	II	Regulation	Order Amending the Order Declaring an Amnesty Period (2020)	SOR/2024-84
Apr 17, 2024	II	Regulation	Approved Screening Devices Order	SOR/2024-66
Feb 17, 2024	I	Proposed	Approved Screening Devices Order	Justice, Dept. of
Dec 23, 2023	I	Proposed	Criminal Interest Rate Regulations	Justice, Dept. of
Oct 20, 2023	II	Regulation	Order Amending the Order Declaring an Amnesty Period (2020)	SOR/2023-223
May 1, 2023	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Pari-Mutuel Betting Supervision Regulations	SOR/2023-87
Jan 9, 2023	II	Regulation	Order Revoking the New Brunswick Translated Documents Regulations, SOR/93-9	SOR/2023-5
Jan 4, 2023	II	Order	Order Amending the Approved Screening Devices Order	SI/2023-1
Oct 26, 2022	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations for the Monitoring of Medical Assistance in Dying	SOR/2022-222
Oct 8, 2022	I	Proposed	Order Amending the Approved Screening Devices Order (New commenting feature)	Justice, Dept. of
Jun 21, 2022	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Pari-Mutuel Betting Supervision Regulations	SOR/2022-139
May 21, 2022	I	Proposed	Regulations Amending the Regulations for the Monitoring of Medical Assistance in Dying	Health, Dept. of
Mar 4, 2022	II	Regulation	Order Amending the Order Declaring an Amnesty Period (2020)	SOR/2022-45
Jun 25, 2021	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities	SOR/2021-169
Jul 7, 2021	II	Order	Order Accepting the Recommendation of the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness that Each Listed Entity Remain a Listed Entity	SI/2021-38
Feb 3, 2021	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities	SOR/2021-8
Feb 3, 2021	II	Order	Order Accepting the Recommendation of the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness that Each Listed Entity Remain a Listed Entity	SI/2021-5
Dec 21, 2020	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing a List of Entities	SOR/2020-285
Oct 22, 2020	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Pari-Mutuel Betting Supervision Regulations	SOR/2020-230
Sep 30, 2020	II	Order	Order Amending the Approved Screening Devices Order	SI/2020-63
May 1, 2020	II	Regulation	Order Declaring an Amnesty Period (2020)	SOR/2020-97
May 1, 2020	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Prescribing Certain Firearms and Other Weapons, Components and Parts of Weapons, Accessories, Cartridge Magazines, Ammunition and Projectiles as Prohibited, Restricted or Non-Restricted	SOR/2020-96
Feb 27, 2020	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Pari-Mutuel Betting Supervision Regulations	SOR/2020-33
Feb 8, 2020	I	Proposed	Order Amending the Approved Screening Devices Order	Justice, Dept. of
Jun 24, 2019	II	Regulation	Order Amending Approved Drug Screening Equipment Order	SOR/2019-237
Jun 21, 2019	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing List of Entities	SOR/2019-231
Jun 21, 2019	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing List of Entities	SOR/2019-231
May 25, 2019	I	Proposed	Order Amending the Approved Drug Screening Equipment Order	Justice, Dept. of
Apr 10, 2019	II	Regulation	Monitoring of Medical Assistance in Dying — Regulations Amending the Regulations	SOR/2019-96
Apr 20, 2019	I	Proposed	Order Amending the Approved Drug Screening Equipment Order	Justice, Dept. of
Feb 11, 2019	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing List of Entities	SOR/2019-45
Jan 28, 2019	II	Regulation	Order Amending Approved Breath Analysis Instruments Order	SOR/2019-26
Jan 28, 2019	II	Regulation	Order Amending Approved Screening Devices Order	SOR/2019-25
Nov 23, 2018	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending Certain Department of Justice Regulations (Miscellaneous Program)	SOR/2018-254
Nov 23, 2018	II	Regulation	Order Designating Newfoundland and Labrador for the Purposes of Section 347.1 of the Criminal Code	SOR/2018-257
Nov 10, 2018	I	Proposed	Order Amending the Approved Breath Analysis Instruments Order	Justice, Dept. of
Nov 10, 2018	I	Proposed	Order Amending the Approved Screening Devices Order	Justice, Dept. of
Oct 31, 2018	II	Order	Court of Appeal of Quebec in Criminal Matters — Rules	SI/2018-96
Aug 27, 2018	II	Regulation	Approved Drug Screening Equipment Order	SOR/2018-179
Sep 5, 2018	II	Order	Rules Amending Manitoba Criminal Appeal Rules	SI/2018-82
Jul 27, 2018	II	Regulation	Monitoring of Medical Assistance in Dying — Regulations	SOR/2018-166
Jul 28, 2018	I	Proposed	Approved Drug Screening Equipment Order	Justice, Dept. of
Jul 25, 2018	II	Order	Rule 91 of the Civil Procedure Rules of Nova Scotia — Amendment	SI/2018-56
Jun 27, 2018	II	Regulation	Blood Drug Concentration Regulations	SOR/2018-148
Jun 27, 2018	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending Blood Drug Concentration Regulations	SOR/2018-149
Jun 13, 2018	II	Order	Criminal Proceedings Rules of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador	SI/2018-43
Jun 1, 2018	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending Pari-Mutuel Betting Supervision Regulations	SOR/2018-117
May 30, 2018	II	Regulation	Safe Food for Canadians Regulations	SOR/2018-108
May 23, 2018	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing List of Entities	SOR/2018-103
May 2, 2018	II	Order	The Court of Appeal of Alberta Criminal Appeal Rules	SI/2018-34
Mar 20, 2018	II	Regulation	Order Declaring Amnesty Period (2018)	SOR/2018-46
Dec 16, 2017	I	Proposed	Monitoring of Medical Assistance in Dying Regulations	Health, Dept. of
Dec 13, 2017	II	Order	Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta Criminal Procedure Rules	SI/2017-76
Oct 14, 2017	I	Proposed	Blood Drug Concentration Regulations	Justice, Dept. of
May 12, 2017	II	Regulation	Order Declaring Amnesty Period (2017)	SOR/2017-87
Mar 24, 2017	II	Regulation	Order Designating New Brunswick for the Purposes of the Criminal Interest Rate Provisions of the Criminal Code	SOR/2017-40
Feb 2, 2017	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending Pari-Mutuel Betting Supervision Regulations	SOR/2017-8
Dec 23, 2016	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Regulations Establishing List of Entities	SOR/2016-320
Oct 5, 2016	II	In force	Order Fixing October 31, 2016 as the Day on which Section 23 of the Act Comes into Force	SI/2016-53
Jun 29, 2016	II	Order	Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench — Criminal Proceedings Rules	SI/2016-34
Jun 11, 2016	I	Proposed	Regulations Amending the Pari-Mutuel Betting Supervision Regulations	Agriculture and Agri-Food, Dept. of

Canada Gazette activity is tracked from January 2025 onward — regulations made before 2025 are not shown.

Date	Part	Type	Title	Instrument / Sponsor
Aug 28, 2025	II	Regulation	Guidelines Amending the Federal Child Support Guidelines	SOR/2025-166
Nov 8, 2023	II	In force	Order Fixing February 1, 2024 as the Day on Which Certain Provisions of An Act to amend the Divorce Act, the Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act and the Garnishment, Attachment and Pension Diversion Act and to make consequential amendments to another Act Come into Force	SI/2023-65
Jun 21, 2023	II	In force	Order Fixing November 15, 2023 as the Day on Which Certain Provisions of An Act to amend the Divorce Act, the Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act and the Garnishment, Attachment and Pension Diversion Act and to make consequential amendments to another Act Come into Force	SI/2023-19
Jan 5, 2022	II	In force	Order Fixing February 1, 2022 as the Day on Which Section 22.1 of that Act Comes into Force in Ontario and Saskatchewan	SI/2022-1
Mar 17, 2021	II	In force	Order Fixing March 1, 2021 as the Day on Which Section 22.1 of that Act Comes into Force in Manitoba, Yukon and Nunavut	SI/2021-7
Dec 23, 2020	II	In force	Order Fixing the Days on Which Certain Provisions of that Act Come into Force	SI/2020-75
Nov 23, 2020	II	Regulation	Regulations Amending the Central Registry of Divorce Proceedings Regulations	SOR/2020-248
Nov 23, 2020	II	Regulation	Guidelines Amending the Federal Child Support Guidelines	SOR/2020-247
Nov 23, 2020	II	Regulation	Notice of Relocation Regulations	SOR/2020-249
Nov 23, 2020	II	Regulation	Provincial Child Support Service Regulations	SOR/2020-250
Jun 10, 2020	II	Order	Order Amending Order in Council P.C. 2019-1143 of August 7, 2019 by Replacing “July 1, 2020” with “March 1, 2021”	SI/2020-42
Mar 21, 2020	I	Proposed	Guidelines Amending the Federal Child Support Guidelines	Justice, Dept. of
Mar 21, 2020	I	Proposed	Notice of Relocation Regulations	Justice, Dept. of
Mar 21, 2020	I	Proposed	Provincial Child Support Service Regulations	Justice, Dept. of
Mar 21, 2020	I	Proposed	Regulations Amending the Central Registry of Divorce Proceedings Regulations	Justice, Dept. of
Oct 23, 2017	II	Regulation	Guidelines Amending Federal Child Support Guidelines	SOR/2017-224

Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act

Summary

Event Timeline

Statutes Touched by This Bill

Coming into Force

Regulatory Activity

Indian Act · 137 entries

Velocity · Gov't Bills

Related Legislation

First Nations Land Management Act · 5 entries

Criminal Code · 81 entries

Constitution Act, 1867 · 3 entries

Statutory Instruments Act · 1 entry

Divorce Act · 16 entries

Date	Part	Type	Title	Instrument / Sponsor
Mar 18, 2021	II	Regulation	Order Amending the Schedules to the First Nations Land Management Act (Miscellaneous Program)	SOR/2021-38
Oct 19, 2020	II	Regulation	Order Amending the Schedules to the First Nations Land Management Act	SOR/2020-229
Mar 24, 2017	II	Regulation	Order Amending Schedule to the First Nations Land Management Act	SOR/2017-46
Mar 29, 2016	II	Regulation	Order Amending Schedule to the First Nations Land Management Act	SOR/2016-67
Feb 24, 2016	II	Regulation	Order Amending Schedule to the First Nations Land Management Act	SOR/2016-27

Date	Part	Type	Title	Instrument / Sponsor
Mar 24, 2025	II	Order	Proclamation Summoning the House of Commons to Meet on May 26, 2025	SI/2025-59
Aug 16, 2021	II	Order	Proclamation Summoning the House of Commons to Meet on October 18, 2021	SI/2021-62
Sep 12, 2019	II	Order	Proclamation Summoning the House of Commons to Meet on November 18, 2019	SI/2019-100