I see. Right.
The problem is that the superintendent won't necessarily know about these intestacies anymore. Because there's no exclusive jurisdiction, no one will be required to tell Indian Affairs that someone has died who is ordinarily a resident on reserve. There won't be estates officers who are making those enquiries and making sure that the family is doing all it needs to do.
In many of these intestacies someone from the family will come forward as the administrator. I'm not suggesting that the department acts as the administrator in every intestacy. That's not true. Many times people come forward and act—you know, next of kin and that kind of thing. But because Indian Affairs has the kind of administrative presence that it does now and the jurisdiction to make these enquiries, people are much more proactive when someone dies.
There can be changes in band lists where people will send in a new membership list a year later and say, “Oh, yes, so and so has died”. That may be the first time that the department ever finds out that someone died on a reserve if clause 7 goes through, whereas those things do happen much more quickly given the department's existing administrative infrastructure right now when dealing with membership changes and Indian estates.