ASSISTANCE WITH CERTAIN FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS. (a) Subject always to compliance with the other provisions of this Agreement, prior to the Shortfall Acres Acquisition Date, Canada agrees with the Band to give favourable consideration to financial arrangements designed to assist the Band to immediately acquire Entitlement Land, provided that any such financial arrangements:
ASSISTANCE WITH CERTAIN FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS. (a) Subject always to compliance with the other provisions of this Agreement, prior to an Entitlement Band's Shortfall Acres Acquisition Date, Canada agrees with the Entitlement Bands to give favourable consideration to financial arrangements designed to assist an Entitlement Band to immediately acquire Entitlement Land, provided that any such financial arrangements:
ASSISTANCE WITH CERTAIN FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS. (a) Subject always to compliance with the other provisions of this Agreement, prior to the Band's Shortfall Acres Acquisition Date, Canada agrees with the Band to give favourable consideration to financial arrangements designed to assist the Band to immediately acquire Entitlement Land, provided that any such financial arrangements:
(i) are made with the prior written consent of, and upon appropriate prior consultation with Canada;
(ii) do not involve the payment of Entitlement Monies by Canada during any period extending past the last date on which Canada and Saskatchewan are scheduled to make any payment of Entitlement Monies to the Treaty Land Entitlement (Saskatchewan) Fund;
(iii) are designed to assist the Band in receiving unencumbered title to Land, Minerals or Improvements that will, upon Purchase, be readily available for Entitlement Reserve creation;
(iv) unless otherwise agreed, involve an irrevocable direction acceptable to Canada, acting reasonably, from the Band to Canada pursuant to which Canada is directed to pay some portion of its then remaining payments scheduled to be made to the Band under Article 3, directly to a third party on behalf of the Band;
(v) are structured in such a way that Canada is satisfied, acting reasonably, that the Band will be able to attain its Shortfall Acres Acquisition Date and otherwise be in a position to comply with the provisions of this Agreement and its Trust Agreement; and
(vi) call for the payments by Canada to such a third party being made at the same time that payments to the Band are otherwise being made by Canada hereunder.
(b) From and after the Band's Shortfall Acres Acquisition Date, Canada agrees to continue to give favourable consideration to the financial arrangements referred to as aforesaid, provided that the conditions referred to in subparagraphs (a)(i), (ii), (i) and (vi) are complied with.
