Marginal note:Publication in the Canada Gazette

24. A copy of

• (a) each order setting apart and appropriating any territorial lands as a land management zone that the Governor in Council proposes to make under section 4, and

• (b) each regulation or amendment to a regulation that the Governor in Council proposes to make under section 5 or paragraph 23(j),

shall be published in the Canada Gazette and a reasonable opportunity shall be afforded to all interested persons to make representations to the Minister with respect thereto.

Marginal note:Effect of receipt

25. A receipt for payment made on the filing of an application to purchase or lease land does not entitle the person making the payment to take, occupy or use the land described in the receipt.

Marginal note:Execution of documents

26. Any lease, agreement, licence, permit or notice of cancellation issued or made pursuant to this Act and any consent to any assignment of any such lease, agreement, licence or permit may be executed on behalf of the Crown by the Minister, the Deputy Minister or by any other officer of the Department authorized in writing for the purpose by the Minister.

Marginal note:Interest

27. Whenever interest is payable under or by virtue of this Act or for or on account of any claim, matter or thing arising under any provision of this Act, the rate of interest shall be five per cent per annum, whether that interest is payable under the terms of any sealed or unsealed instrument or not.

Marginal note:Forms

28. The Minister may prescribe forms of leases, agreements of sale, licences and other documents required for use under this Act, but not including instruments issued under the Great Seal.

Marginal note:Government employees

• 29. (1) Except by or under the authority of an order of the Governor in Council, no officer or employee of or under the Government of Canada shall

  • (a) directly or indirectly, in his own name or in the name of any other person, purchase or acquire any territorial land or any interest therein; or

  • (b) be interested as shareholder or otherwise in any corporation that purchases, acquires or holds any territorial land or any interest therein.

• Marginal note:Order of Governor in Council

  (2) An order of the Governor in Council made under subsection (1) that relates to any interest as shareholder or otherwise in a corporation may apply

  • (a) to a particular interest in a particular corporation described in the order or to interests in a class or classes of corporations described therein; and

  • (b) where the order so specifies, to a particular interest or to interests acquired before the making of the order.