October 2003
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Task forces have been active in rewriting the Unit and Unit Operating
agreements since 1986. The original task force completed their work and
got approval of model agreements in 1992 followed by a few changes and
completion of their work in a report dated March 1995.
In 1997 further revisions were required in the Unit Operating agreement
to reflect the 1996 draft model CO&O agreement being issued. This was
followed by the 1999 model CO&O agreement. A revised Unit Operating
agreement consistent with the CO&O was issued June 1999 and approved by
the PJVA.
From 1999 to 2003 both the Unit and Unit Operating agreements were
rewritten with a final product dated October 2003. The PJVA officially
accepted these models in February 2004. The Alberta Crown has insisted
that the Unit agreement model be used for some time relying on earlier
drafts of the October 2003 model for Units in Alberta in the last few
years. Many of the clauses in the model are at the insistence of the
Crown.
Unit agreements in Saskatchewan still require the use of very old model
agreements dating from 1972 and cannot use the new model. In British
Columbia certain changes to the models are required. Saskatchewan and
BC versions of the models may be created if there is enough demand at
some future date.