Property and Civil Rights

Marginal note:Duality of legal traditions and application of provincial law

8.1 Both the common law and the civil law are equally authoritative and recognized sources of the law of property and civil rights in Canada and, unless otherwise provided by law, if in interpreting an enactment it is necessary to refer to a province’s rules, principles or concepts forming part of the law of property and civil rights, reference must be made to the rules, principles and concepts in force in the province at the time the enactment is being applied.

Marginal note:Terminology

8.2 Unless otherwise provided by law, when an enactment contains both civil law and common law terminology, or terminology that has a different meaning in the civil law and the common law, the civil law terminology or meaning is to be adopted in the Province of Quebec and the common law terminology or meaning is to be adopted in the other provinces.

Marginal note:Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act.

Marginal note:Authorization of officials

3. Any Minister may authorize in writing an officer of the Minister’s department or of any other department, or any head of mission, to exercise on behalf of that Minister any power given by or under this Act to that Minister, including the power to sign an instrument or act.

DISPOSITIONS, LEASES AND LICENCES

Marginal note:Prohibition

4. Subject to any other Act, no disposition or lease of federal real property or federal immovables shall be made and no licence shall be given in respect of any such property except in accordance with this Act.

GRANTS AND CONCESSIONS

Marginal note:Execution of licences

6. A licence in respect of federal real property or a federal immovable shall be signed by the Minister having the administration of the property.

Marginal note:Plans

• 7. (1) Where under the laws of Canada or a province a plan may operate as an instrument or act granting, conceding, dedicating, transferring or conveying real property or immovables for a road, utility, park or other public purpose, the use of such a plan in relation to any federal real property or federal immovable may be authorized by the same authority that may authorize the grant, concession, dedication, transfer or conveyance of that property.

• Marginal note:Execution

  (2) A plan referred to in subsection (1) relating to any federal real property or federal immovable shall be signed by the Minister having the administration of the property and countersigned by the Minister of Justice.

Marginal note:Delivery required

• 8. (1) Subject to a contrary intention expressed in any instrument or act, the rule of law that a grant of federal real property or a concession of federal immovables by letters patent requires no delivery to take effect is hereby abrogated.

• Marginal note:Time of taking effect

  (2) A grant of federal real property and a concession of federal immovables by letters patent or by an instrument or act referred to in paragraph 5(1)(b) shall take effect in accordance with the provisions of the letters patent, instrument or act or, if there is no provision for its taking effect, shall take effect,

  • (a) where the letters patent are or the instrument or act is delivered on terms or subject to conditions, on their satisfaction or removal; and

  • (b) in any other case, on delivery of the letters patent, instrument or act.

Marginal note:Words of limitation

9. Where under the laws of a province other than Quebec an instrument transferring real property without words of limitation operates as an absolute transfer of all the transferor’s interest in the real property, a grant of federal real property in that province by letters patent or by an instrument referred to in paragraph 5(1)(b) operates as a conveyance of a fee simple or equivalent estate in the property although no words of limitation are used in the instrument, if Her Majesty has power to grant the fee simple or an equivalent estate in the property and no contrary intention is expressed in the instrument.

Marginal note:Grants or concessions to Her Majesty

10. Her Majesty may grant federal real property and concede federal immovables to Herself.

Marginal note:Transfers of administration and control

• 11. (1) An instrument transferring administration and control of federal real property or an act transferring administration and control of federal immovables to Her Majesty in any right other than Canada pursuant to regulations made under paragraph 16(2)(e) shall be signed by the Minister having the administration of the property and countersigned by the Minister of Justice.

• Marginal note:Effect of grant, etc.

  (2) A grant, concession, vesting order or other conveyancing instrument or transfer act in favour of Her Majesty in respect of any real property or immovable belonging to Her Majesty in any right other than Canada results, on its acceptance, in Her Majesty having administration and control of the property.

Marginal note:Restrictions

12. A lessee of any real property or immovable from Her Majesty, the successor, sublessee or assignee of such a lessee, a person who holds an interest derived from such a lease or a person who holds a licence in respect of federal real property or federal immovables may not, without the consent of the Governor in Council, grant or agree to any covenant or condition restricting or controlling the use of the property except in favour of

• (a) Her Majesty;

• (b) any person through whom that interest or right was derived; or

• (c) in the case of such a lessee, successor or assignee or person holding such an interest, any sublessee or licensee of that person.

APPLICATION OF OTHER LAWS

Marginal note:Acquisition under provincial Act

13. Except as expressly authorized by or under an Act of Parliament, no person acquires any federal real property or federal immovable by or under a provincial Act.

Marginal note:No title by prescription

14. No person acquires any federal real property or federal immovable by prescription.

MINISTER OF JUSTICE

Marginal note:Powers of Minister of Justice

• 15. (1) The Minister of Justice may, for purposes of the acquisition or disposition of, or any dealing with, any real property or immovable, on behalf of Her Majesty,

  • (a) determine the type of instrument or act to be used for those purposes and settle and approve the form and legal content of any Crown grant or other instrument or act;

  • (b) effect the delivery of any instrument or act, including its delivery on terms or subject to conditions satisfactory to the Minister of Justice, whether or not the satisfaction or removal of the terms or conditions will result in the delivery becoming absolute; and

  • (c) give and accept any undertakings from an advocate or a notary of the Province of Quebec or a barrister or solicitor of any other province that are in the opinion of the Minister of Justice necessary for or incidental to the completion of a transaction concerning real property or immovables, including undertakings respecting the delivery of any instrument or act and the payment of any purchase price or other moneys.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (2) The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Minister of Justice and the Treasury Board, make regulations respecting

  • (a) the referral of specified classes of transactions concerning real property or immovables within or outside Canada to the Minister of Justice for settlement and approval of the form and legal content of instruments or acts or for other purposes; and

  • (b) the establishment and operation of a depository for the deposit of copies of instruments and acts relating to federal real property and federal immovables other than instruments and acts issued under the Great Seal.

DISPOSITIONS, ACQUISITIONS ET TRANSFERTS D’ATTRIBUTIONS ADMINISTRATIVES

Marginal note:Terres territoriales

• 17. (1) Malgré l’article 3 de la Loi sur les terres territoriales, les articles 13 à 16 et 19 de cette loi s’appliquent aux biens réels fédéraux situés au Yukon, dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest ou au Nunavut.

• Marginal note:Réserves

  (2) Dans le cas des biens réels fédéraux situés au Yukon, dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest ou au Nunavut et concédés en fief simple sous le régime de la présente loi, le ministre des Affaires indiennes et du Nord canadien est chargé de la gestion des biens réels et des droits sur ceux-ci qui, par application du paragraphe (1), font l’objet de réserves.

• Marginal note:Réserves

  (3) Lorsque tout intérêt autre que le droit de propriété en fief simple des biens réels fédéraux situés au Yukon, dans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest ou au Nunavut fait l’objet d’une concession sous le régime de la présente loi, le ministre chargé de leur gestion conserve la gestion de ces biens réels et des droits sur ceux-ci qui, par l’application du paragraphe (1), font l’objet de réserves.

Marginal note:Administration by Minister

• 18. (1) Any federal real property or federal immovable acquired or leased for the purposes of a Minister’s department, including any such property acquired by way of a transfer of administration and control from Her Majesty in any right other than Canada, is under the administration of that Minister for the purposes of that department.

• Marginal note:Administration by Minister

  (2) Where a Minister has, in relation to a department, by or under any Act or any order of the Governor in Council, the “administration”, “management”, “administration and control”, “control, management and administration”, “management, charge and direction” or another similarly expressed power in relation to any federal real property or federal immovable, that property is under the administration of that Minister for the purposes of that department.

• Marginal note:Continuity of administration

  (3) Any federal real property or federal immovable that is under the administration of a Minister for the purposes of a department remains under the administration of that Minister for the purposes of that department until a change of administration is effected under section 16 or on the authority or direction of the Governor in Council.

• Marginal note:Consequences of administration

  (4) Where any federal real property or federal immovable is under the administration of a Minister for the purposes of a department, that Minister has the right to the use of that property for the purposes of that department, subject to any conditions or restrictions imposed by or under this or any other Act or any order of the Governor in Council, but is not entitled by reason only of the administration of the property to dispose of it or to retain the proceeds of its use or disposition or the fruits and revenues of its use.

• Marginal note:For greater certainty

  (5) For greater certainty, a Minister may have the administration of federal real property or federal immovables for the purposes of any department of which that Minister is the Minister.

• Marginal note:Signature is evidence

  (5.1) Despite subsections (1) to (3), if a Minister is satisfied that the federal real property or federal immovable described in an instrument or act referred to in section 5 or 11, a licence referred to in section 6 or a plan referred to in section 7 is under the Minister’s administration, that property is deemed to be under the administration of the Minister and the signature of the Minister on the instrument, act, licence or plan is conclusive evidence that the Minister is so satisfied.

• Marginal note:Administration by corporation

  (6) If, by or under any Act or any order of the Governor in Council, a corporation has, by the use of any expression mentioned in subsection (2) or any similar expression, the right to the use of any federal real property or federal immovable, and no Minister has the administration of the property, the corporation has, for the purposes of paragraphs 16(1)(g) and (h) and (2)(g), the administration of that property.

Marginal note:Defence property vested in Her Majesty

• 19. (1) Such of the real property and immovables mentioned in the schedule to the Ordnance and Admiralty Lands Act, chapter 115 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1927, as was on June 1, 1950 vested in Her Majesty, by whatever mode of conveyance it was acquired or taken and whether in fee, for life, for years or otherwise, and all the appurtenances of the real property and the accessories and dependencies of the immovables, unless disposed of since that date, continue absolutely vested in Her Majesty for the purposes of Canada in the same manner and to the same extent as on June 1, 1950.

• Marginal note:Disposition of defence property

  (2) Until the Governor in Council provides otherwise, federal real property and federal immovables that are declared by the Governor in Council to be necessary for the defence of Canada shall not be disposed of, but the Governor in Council may authorize the lease or other use of any such property as the Governor in Council thinks best for the advantage of Canada.

Marginal note:Grants or concessions to deceased persons not null or void

20. A Crown grant that is issued to or in the name of a person who is deceased is not for that reason null or void, but the title to the real property or immovable intended to be granted or conceded vests in the heirs, assigns or successors, legatees or legatees by particular title, or other legal representatives of the deceased person according to the laws in force in the province in which the property is situated as if the Crown grant had issued to or in the name of the deceased person during the person’s lifetime.

Marginal note:Correction

21. Si la concession de l’État comporte une erreur d’écriture, une fausse appellation, une description incorrecte ou défectueuse de l’immeuble ou du bien réel, une omission dans les conditions ou tout autre vice, le ministre de la Justice peut, en l’absence de revendication contraire, ordonner que la concession défectueuse soit annulée et remplacée par une concession correcte; cette dernière a dès lors la même valeur que si elle avait été octroyée à la date de la concession annulée.

Marginal note:Relief from inconsistent transactions

• 22. (1) Where, through error, inconsistent transactions relating to the same federal real property or federal immovable have been entered into, the Governor in Council may

  • (a) order a new grant of federal real property, or a new concession of a federal immovable, of such value as the Governor in Council considers just and equitable, to be made to any person deprived as a result of the error;

  • (b) make a new transfer of administration and control of federal real property, or of federal immovables, of such value as the Governor in Council considers just and equitable, to Her Majesty in any right other than Canada to provide relief from the error;

  • (c) in the case of a sale, lease or licence, order a refund to be made of any money paid on account of the sale, lease or licence, with interest at a rate established in the manner prescribed by the Governor in Council; or

  • (d) where the property was transferred by or from the original holder or has been improved before the discovery of the error, or where an original Crown grant was a free grant, order a new grant of any federal real property, or a new concession of any federal immovable, that the Governor in Council considers just and equitable to be made to the original holder.

“secured creditor”

« créancier garanti »

“secured creditor” means a person holding a mortgage, hypothec, pledge, charge or lien on or against the property of the debtor or any part of that property as security for a debt due or accruing due to the person from the debtor, or a person whose claim is based on, or secured by, a negotiable instrument held as collateral security and on which the debtor is only indirectly or secondarily liable, and includes

• (a) a person who has a right of retention or a prior claim constituting a real right, within the meaning of the Civil Code of Québec or any other statute of the Province of Quebec, on or against the property of the debtor or any part of that property, or

• (b) any of

  • (i) the vendor of any property sold to the debtor under a conditional or instalment sale,

  • (ii) the purchaser of any property from the debtor subject to a right of redemption, or

  • (iii) the trustee of a trust constituted by the debtor to secure the performance of an obligation,

  if the exercise of the person’s rights is subject to the provisions of Book Six of the Civil Code of Québec entitled Prior Claims and Hypothecs that deal with the exercise of hypothecary rights;

• (c) where not otherwise provided for, require the deposit of one or more continuing guaranty bonds or continuing suretyships as security for the due accounting of all property received by trustees and for the due and faithful performance by them of their duties in the administration of estates to which they are appointed, in any amount that the Superintendent may determine, which amount may be increased or decreased as the Superintendent may deem expedient, and the security shall be in a form satisfactory to the Superintendent and may be enforced by the Superintendent for the benefit of the creditors;

• Marginal note:Proposal, etc., not to be withdrawn

  (4) No proposal or any security, guarantee or suretyship tendered with the proposal may be withdrawn pending the decision of the creditors and the court.

Marginal note:La loi provinciale s’applique en faveur de l’acheteur moyennant valeur

75. Nonobstant les autres dispositions de la présente loi, un acte, transport, transfert, contrat de vente, charge ou hypothèque, consenti à un acheteur ou à un créancier hypothécaire de bonne foi, ou consenti en sa faveur, pour contrepartie valable et suffisante, et couvrant des biens immeubles visés par une ordonnance de séquestre ou une cession en vertu de la présente loi, est valable et efficace selon sa teneur et selon les lois de la province dans laquelle ces biens sont situés, aussi pleinement et efficacement, et pour toutes fins et intentions, que si aucune ordonnance de séquestre n’avait été rendue ou cession faite en vertu de la présente loi, à moins que l’ordonnance de séquestre, la cession, ou un avis de cette ordonnance ou de cette cession, ou un avis, n’ait été enregistré contre les biens au bureau approprié, antérieurement à l’enregistrement de l’acte, du transport, du transfert, du contrat de vente, de la charge ou de l’hypothèque, conformément aux lois de la province où sont situés les biens.

• Definition of “assignment”

  (4) For the purposes of this section, “assignment” includes assignment by way of security, hypothec and other charges on book debts.

• Marginal note:Special services

  (6) An inspector duly authorized by the creditors or by the other inspectors to perform special services for the estate may be allowed a special fee for those services, subject to approval of the court, which may vary that fee as it deems proper having regard to the nature of the services rendered in relation to the obligations of the inspector to the estate to act in good faith for the general interests of the administration of the estate.

• (e) municipal taxes assessed or levied against the bankrupt, within the two years immediately preceding the bankruptcy, that do not constitute a secured claim against the real property or immovables of the bankrupt, but not exceeding the value of the interest of the bankrupt in the property in respect of which the taxes were imposed as declared by the trustee;

• (d) any debt or liability arising out of fraud, embezzlement, misappropriation or defalcation while acting in a fiduciary capacity or, in the Province of Quebec, as a trustee or administrator of the property of others;

Definition of “person”

2.1 For the purposes of sections 3 to 5, “person” means a natural person of full age and capacity other than Her Majesty in right of Canada or a province.

Liability and Civil Salvage

Marginal note:Liability

3. The Crown is liable for the damages for which, if it were a person, it would be liable

• (a) in the Province of Quebec, in respect of

  • (i) the damage caused by the fault of a servant of the Crown, or

  • (ii) the damage resulting from the act of a thing in the custody of or owned by the Crown or by the fault of the Crown as custodian or owner; and

• (b) in any other province, in respect of

  • (i) a tort committed by a servant of the Crown, or

  • (ii) a breach of duty attaching to the ownership, occupation, possession or control of property.

Marginal note:Motor vehicles

4. The Crown is liable for the damage sustained by anyone by reason of a motor vehicle, owned by the Crown, on a highway, for which the Crown would be liable if it were a person.

Marginal note:Civil salvage

• 5. (1) Subject to subsection (2), the law relating to civil salvage, whether of life or property (except sections 453 to 456, 459 to 463 and 465 of the Canada Shipping Act), applies in relation to salvage services rendered in assisting any Crown ship or aircraft, or in saving life from the ship or aircraft, or in saving any cargo or apparel belonging to the Crown, in the same manner as if the ship, aircraft, cargo or apparel belonged to a person.

Marginal note:Incompatibilité entre recours et droit à une pension ou indemnité

9. Ni l’État ni ses préposés ne sont susceptibles de poursuites pour toute perte — notamment décès, blessure ou dommage — ouvrant droit au paiement d’une pension ou indemnité sur le Trésor ou sur des fonds gérés par un organisme mandataire de l’État.

Marginal note:Liability for acts of servants

10. No proceedings lie against the Crown by virtue of subparagraph 3(a)(i) or (b)(i) in respect of any act or omission of a servant of the Crown unless the act or omission would, apart from the provisions of this Act, have given rise to a cause of action for liability against that servant or the servant’s personal representative or succession.

Marginal note:Motor vehicles

11. No proceedings lie against the Crown by virtue of section 4 in respect of damage sustained by any person by reason of a motor vehicle on a highway unless the driver of the motor vehicle or the driver’s personal representative or succession is liable for the damage so sustained.

Marginal note:Application of subparagraphs 3(a)(ii) and (b)(ii)

• 13. (1) Subparagraphs 3(a)(ii) and (b)(ii) are not applicable in respect of any property owned by the Crown unless the Crown or a person acting for the Crown has, in fact,

  • (a) in the case of personal property and movables, taken physical control of it; and

  • (b) in the case of real property or immovables, entered into occupation of it.

• Marginal note:Effect of orders

  (2) Where the Governor in Council has, by order published in the Canada Gazette, declared that the Crown has, before, on or after November 15, 1954, ceased to be in control or in occupation of any property specified in paragraphs (1)(a) and (b), subparagraphs 3(a)(ii) and (b)(ii) are not applicable in respect of the specified property from the day of publication of the order until the day the order is revoked.

Marginal note:Proceedings in rem

14. Nothing in this Act

• (a) authorizes proceedings in rem in respect of any claim against the Crown;

• (b) authorizes the arrest, detention or sale of any Crown ship or aircraft, or of any cargo or other property belonging to the Crown; or

• (c) gives to any person any lien on, or cause of preference on or in respect of, any ship, aircraft, cargo or other property belonging to the Crown.

Marginal note:Responsabilité de l’État

• 17. (1) Sous réserve du paragraphe (2), l’État est d’une part responsable de tout dommage ou de toute perte occasionnés à autrui, directement ou indirectement, du fait de l’interception intentionnelle d’une communication privée effectuée — au moyen d’un dispositif d’interception — par l’un de ses préposés dans l’exercice de ses fonctions, et d’autre part astreint à des dommages-intérêts punitifs n’excédant pas cinq mille dollars pour chacune des victimes.

Marginal note:Responsabilité en cas de révélation

• 18. (1) Sous réserve du paragraphe (2), l’État est responsable, en sus de dommages-intérêts punitifs d’un montant maximal de cinq mille dollars, de tout dommage ou de toute perte causés à autrui du fait de l’obtention de renseignements relatifs à une communication privée ou une communication radiotéléphonique interceptée, au moyen d’un dispositif d’interception, par l’un de ses préposés dans l’exercice de ses fonctions mais sans le consentement exprès ou tacite de l’auteur ou du destinataire, lorsque le préposé délibérément :

Marginal note:Concurrent jurisdiction of provincial court

• 21. (1) In all cases where a claim is made against the Crown, except where the Federal Court has exclusive jurisdiction with respect to it, the superior court of the province in which the claim arises has concurrent jurisdiction with respect to the subject-matter of the claim.

Marginal note:Déclaration de droits

• 22. (1) Le tribunal ne peut, lorsqu’il connaît d’une demande visant l’État, assujettir celui-ci à une injonction ou à une ordonnance d’exécution en nature mais, dans les cas où ces recours pourraient être exercés entre personnes, il peut, pour en tenir lieu, déclarer les droits des parties.

• Marginal note:Signification de l’acte introductif d’instance

  (2) Dans les cas visés au paragraphe (1), la signification à l’État de l’acte introductif d’instance est faite au sous-procureur général du Canada ou au premier dirigeant de l’organisme concerné, selon le cas.

• (a) any defence that would be available if the proceedings were a suit or an action between persons in a competent court; and

Marginal note:Absence d’exécution forcée contre l’État

29. Les jugements rendus contre l’État ne sont pas susceptibles d’exécution forcée.

Marginal note:Paiement en exécution d’un jugement

• 30. (1) Sur réception d’un certificat réglementaire, le ministre des Finances autorise le paiement, sur le Trésor, de toute somme d’argent accordée à une personne, par jugement contre l’État.

Marginal note:Judgment interest, causes of action within province

• 31.1 (1) Except as otherwise provided in any other Act of Parliament and subject to subsection (2), the laws relating to interest on judgments in causes of action between subject and subject that are in force in a province apply to judgments against the Crown in respect of any cause of action arising in that province.

• Marginal note:Joint and several or solidary liability

  (5) If a charge is imposed in respect of an aircraft under this section, both the registered owner and the operator of the aircraft are jointly and severally, or solidarily, liable for payment of the charge.

Marginal note:Avis d’entrée

• 5.7 (1) Dans le cas d’un bien-fonds ou d’éléments s’y trouvant qui sont utilisés ou détenus en violation d’un règlement de zonage, le ministre peut, par avis écrit, informer leur propriétaire ou locataire que si, avant la date fixée — celle-ci ne pouvant être antérieure au trentième jour suivant la date où l’avis est signifié ou publié pour la dernière fois dans les conditions prévues au paragraphe (2) —, il n’y a pas cessation définitive de la contravention, ou enlèvement ou modification des éléments en cause conformément à l’avis, il a l’intention d’entrer sur le bien-fonds et de prendre les mesures justifiables en la circonstance pour faire cesser cette contravention ou procéder à l’enlèvement ou à la modification.

• Marginal note:Release on security

  (4) A designated airport authority shall release from detention an aircraft seized under subsection (1) or (2) if a bond, suretyship or other security in a form satisfactory to the authority for the amount in respect of which the aircraft was seized is deposited with the authority.

• e) de façon générale, la gestion et la disposition du capital-actions, des biens et des affaires de la Banque.

• Marginal note:Approval of disposal of facilities required

  (2) Except in the ordinary course of the business of the Company, no facilities of the Company that are integral and necessary for the carrying on of telecommunications activities shall be sold or otherwise disposed of, or leased or loaned, without the prior approval of the Commission.

Marginal note:Deposit in office of the Registrar General

• 14. (1) A deed of trust creating mortgages, charges or encumbrances — or, in the Province of Quebec, an act constituting hypothecs — on the whole or any part of the property of the Company, present or future, as may be described in the deed or act and an assignment or other instrument or act in any way affecting the mortgage, hypothec or security shall be deposited in the office of the Registrar General of Canada and notice of the deposit shall immediately be given in the Canada Gazette.

• Marginal note:Effect of compliance

  (2) If subsection (1) has been complied with, it shall not be necessary for any purpose that the mortgage, hypothec, charge, encumbrance or assignment or any other instrument or act in any way affecting it be otherwise deposited, registered or filed under the provisions of any law respecting the deposit, registration or filing of instruments or acts affecting property.

Marginal note:Evidence of financial responsibility

31. The Minister may require any person or class of persons marketing agricultural products in import, export or interprovincial trade to provide evidence of financial responsibility in any form, including an insurance or indemnity bond, or a suretyship, that is satisfactory to the Minister.

• (v) requiring dealers or operators of establishments to post bonds or to provide suretyships, or to provide other security satisfactory to the Minister, as a guarantee that they will comply with the terms and conditions of any licence or registration issued to them and providing for the forfeiture of the bonds, suretyships or other security if they fail to comply with those terms and conditions;

Marginal note:Property and investments

• 17. (1) The Council may, for the purposes of this Act, acquire, hold, manage and dispose of real, personal, movable and immovable property and, subject to this Act and on the advice of the Investment Committee, may invest in any manner it sees fit any money standing to the credit of the Endowment Fund or the University Capital Grants Fund or received by the Council by gift, bequest or otherwise, and may hold, manage and dispose of the investment.

Marginal note:Libéralités

18. Le Conseil peut, par don, legs ou autre mode de libéralités, acquérir des biens, notamment sous forme d’argent ou de valeurs mobilières, et, malgré toute disposition contraire de la présente loi, employer ou gérer la partie de ces biens non affectée à la Caisse de dotation ou au Fonds d’assistance financière aux universités, ou en disposer, pourvu qu’il respecte les conditions dont sont assorties ces libéralités.

• Marginal note:Charge on land

  (2.6) A document issued by the Federal Court or by a superior court of a province evidencing a certificate in respect of a debtor registered under subsection (2.3) or (2.4) may be recorded for the purpose of creating security, or a charge, lien or legal hypothec, on land in a province, or on an interest in land in a province, held or owned by the debtor, in the same manner as a document evidencing a judgment of the superior court of the province against a person for a debt owing by the person may be recorded in accordance with the law of the province to create security, or a charge, lien or legal hypothec, on land, or an interest in land, held or owned by the person.

• b) pour rendre disponibles, notamment par vente ou octroi de licence, les droits d’auteurs, marques de commerce ou droits de propriété analogues détenus par le Centre ou placés sous son administration ou son contrôle.

Marginal note:Title to government issue or building

20. If, by the terms of a defence contract, it is provided that title to any government issue or building furnished or made available to a person or obtained or constructed by the person with money provided by Her Majesty or an agent of Her Majesty or an associated government remains vested or vests in Her Majesty or in an associated government free and clear of all claims, liens, prior claims or rights of retention within the meaning of the Civil Code of Québec or any other statute of the Province of Quebec, charges or encumbrances, then, despite any law in force in any province,

• (a) the title to the government issue or building remains vested or vests in accordance with the terms of the contract free and clear of all claims, liens, prior claims or rights of retention within the meaning of the Civil Code of Québec or any other statute of the Province of Quebec, charges or encumbrances; and

Marginal note:Special statutory references

12. Where in any special Act of Parliament enacted before December 21, 1967, any person is required to file or register any instrument of trust, mortgage, hypothec, bond, suretyship, charge, lease, sale, bailment, pledge, assignment, surrender or other instrument, document or record or copy thereof, or any notice, in the office or department of the Secretary of State, the filing or registration required shall be made with the Registrar General unless the Governor in Council by order designates another office or department for such filing or registration.

Marginal note:Incessibilité des prestations

• 42. (1) Sous réserve des paragraphes (2) et (3), les prestations ne peuvent être cédées, grevées, saisies ni données en garantie et toute opération en ce sens est nulle.

• (b) loans, loan guarantees or suretyships;

• (b) an amount paid on a guarantee or suretyship of a loan made to the person; and

• Marginal note:Garantie

  (5) Le ministre peut, s’il le juge opportun dans un cas particulier, accepter en garantie du paiement de cotisations une hypothèque ou une charge sur les biens de l’employeur ou d’une autre personne ou une autre garantie fournie par d’autres personnes.

• Marginal note:Proof of documents

  (13) Every document appearing to be an order, direction, demand, notice, certificate, requirement, decision, assessment, discharge of mortgage, release of hypothec or other document executed under, or in the course of the administration or enforcement of, this Part over the name in writing of the Minister, the Deputy Minister of National Revenue, the Commissioner of Customs and Revenue or an officer authorized to exercise the powers or perform the duties of the Minister under this Part, is deemed to be a document signed, made and issued by the Minister, the Deputy Minister, the Commissioner or the officer unless it has been called into question by the Minister or by a person acting for the Minister or for Her Majesty.

• d) concernant l’accumulation de réserves et de stock d’un produit contrôlé, leur entreposage et leur mode de disposition;

• Marginal note:Evidence of financial responsibility

  (2.1) The Minister may require any person who engages or proposes to engage in the importation of explosives and who does not reside in Canada or have a chief place of business or head office in Canada to provide evidence of financial responsibility in the form of insurance, or in the form of an indemnity bond or a suretyship, satisfactory to the Minister, or in any other form satisfactory to the Minister.

Marginal note:Ranking of Her Majesty

52. When a judgment debtor is indebted to

• (a) Her Majesty, or

• (b) Her Majesty in right of a province on account of taxes payable to any province, and an agreement exists between Canada and the province under which Canada is authorized to collect the tax on behalf of the province,

Her Majesty ranks in priority over the party that instituted the garnishment proceedings permitted under this Part with respect to any garnishable moneys that are payable to the judgment debtor notwithstanding that a garnishee summons in respect of those moneys has been served on the Minister, and the amount of the indebtedness may be recovered or retained in any manner authorized by law.

• (h) purchase, lease or otherwise acquire and hold, mortgage, hypothecate, sell or otherwise deal with any real property or immovable;

• (h) purchase, lease or otherwise acquire and hold, mortgage, hypothecate, sell or otherwise deal with any real property or immovable;

• k) prévoir le mode de disposition des biens confisqués en application de l’article 9;

• (a) the manufacture, assembly, possession, purchase, sale, importation, exportation, display, repair, restoration, maintenance, storage, alteration, pawnbroking, transportation, shipping, distribution or delivery of firearms, prohibited weapons, restricted weapons, prohibited devices or prohibited ammunition,

Marginal note:Jugements exécutés à l’extérieur du Canada

8.1 Sur demande présentée par une partie ayant la qualité de citoyen canadien ou de personne résidant au Canada, de personne morale constituée sous le régime d’une loi fédérale ou provinciale ou de personne exerçant une activité au Canada contre laquelle a été rendu un jugement qui — n’était sa complète exécution à l’extérieur du Canada — pourrait faire l’objet d’un arrêté en vertu de l’article 8 ou un jugement fondé sur la loi des États-Unis intitulée Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996, le procureur général du Canada peut déclarer, par arrêté, que cette partie est autorisée à recouvrer, en vertu de celles des dispositions de l’article 9 qu’il précise, la totalité ou une partie des sommes qu’elle a versées, des frais qu’elle a engagés ainsi que de toute perte ou de tout dommage qu’elle a subis.

• (k) respecting the security to be given, by way of bond, suretyship, insurance or otherwise, by applicants for licences and by licensees;

• (a) any lien for charges against the integrated circuit product or article, or any hypothecs, prior claims or rights of retention within the meaning of the Civil Code of Québec or any other statute of the Province of Quebec with respect to the integrated circuit product or article, that existed prior to the date of an order made under subsection (1) has effect only so far as may be consistent with the due execution of the judgment;

Marginal note:When per annum rate not stipulated

4. Except as to mortgages on real property or hypothecs on immovables, whenever any interest is, by the terms of any written or printed contract, whether under seal or not, made payable at a rate or percentage per day, week, month, or at any rate or percentage for any period less than a year, no interest exceeding the rate or percentage of five per cent per annum shall be chargeable, payable or recoverable on any part of the principal money unless the contract contains an express statement of the yearly rate or percentage of interest to which the other rate or percentage is equivalent.

INTEREST ON MONEYS SECURED BY MORTGAGE ON REAL PROPERTY OR HYPOTHEC ON IMMOVABLES

Marginal note:No interest recoverable in certain cases

6. Whenever any principal money or interest secured by mortgage on real property or hypothec on immovables is, by the mortgage or hypothec, made payable on a sinking fund plan, on any plan under which the payments of principal money and interest are blended or on any plan that involves an allowance of interest on stipulated repayments, no interest whatever shall be chargeable, payable or recoverable on any part of the principal money advanced, unless the mortgage or hypothec contains a statement showing the amount of the principal money and the rate of interest chargeable on that money, calculated yearly or half-yearly, not in advance.

Marginal note:No rate recoverable beyond that so stated

7. Whenever the rate of interest shown in the statement mentioned in section 6 is less than the rate of interest that would be chargeable by virtue of any other provision, calculation or stipulation in the mortgage or hypothec, no greater rate of interest shall be chargeable, payable or recoverable, on the principal money advanced, than the rate shown in the statement.

Marginal note:No fine, etc., allowed on payments in arrears

• 8. (1) No fine, penalty or rate of interest shall be stipulated for, taken, reserved or exacted on any arrears of principal or interest secured by mortgage on real property or hypothec on immovables that has the effect of increasing the charge on the arrears beyond the rate of interest payable on principal money not in arrears.

Marginal note:When no further interest payable

• 10. (1) Whenever any principal money or interest secured by mortgage on real property or hypothec on immovables is not, under the terms of the mortgage or hypothec, payable until a time more than five years after the date of the mortgage or hypothec, then, if at any time after the expiration of the five years, any person liable to pay, or entitled to pay in order to redeem the mortgage, or to extinguish the hypothec, tenders or pays, to the person entitled to receive the money, the amount due for principal money and interest to the time of payment, as calculated under sections 6 to 9, together with three months further interest in lieu of notice, no further interest shall be chargeable, payable or recoverable at any time after the payment on the principal money or interest due under the mortgage or hypothec.

• Marginal note:When section not to apply

  (2) Nothing in this section applies to any mortgage on real property or hypothec on immovables given by a joint stock company or other corporation, nor to any debenture issued by any such company or corporation, for the payment of which security has been given by way of mortgage on real property or hypothec on immovables.

• (c) subject to the terms, if any, under which the property was acquired, create any security interest in, or hypothecate, all or any property of the Foundation, owned or subsequently acquired, to secure any obligation of the Foundation.

Marginal note:Incessibilité des prestations

23. Les prestations d’adaptation ne peuvent être cédées, grevées, saisies ou données en garantie et, sous réserve des paragraphes 22(1) et 26(1), toute opération en ce sens est nulle.

• e) acquérir, par don, legs ou autre mode de libéralités, des biens, notamment sous forme d’argent ou de valeurs mobilières, et les détenir, employer, investir ou gérer, ou en disposer, pourvu qu’elle respecte les conditions dont sont éventuellement assorties ces libéralités;

Marginal note:Evidence of financial responsibility

19. The Minister may require any person or class of persons importing meat products into Canada to provide evidence of financial responsibility in any form, including an insurance or indemnity bond, or a suretyship, that is satisfactory to the Minister.

• (a) acquire real, personal, movable and immovable property, including securities, and hold, manage or dispose of them as the Corporation may determine;

• (a.1) lease as lessee real, personal, movable and immovable property;

• (b) acquire by gift, bequest or devise real, personal, movable and immovable property and, despite anything in this Act, expend, administer or dispose of any such property, subject to the terms, if any, on which it was given, bequeathed or devised to the Corporation;

• (b) claims against a company for loss of life or injury to the person; or

• (d) indemnification from all liabilities, damages, claims, suits and actions arising out of the operations of the company other than liabilities, damages, claims, suits and actions resulting from

  • (i) in the Province of Quebec, the gross or intentional fault of the owner of the lands, and

  • (ii) in any other province, the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the owner of the lands;

• (b) subject to the provisions of this Act, the company may create a lien, mortgage, charge or other security, or the company may constitute a hypothec, on the pipeline or on that part of it.

• (b) the creation of any lien, mortgage, hypothec, charge or other security on the property of the company, or of any prior claim or right of retention within the meaning of the Civil Code of Québec or any other statute of the Province of Quebec with respect to property of the company;

• (c) the sale, elsewhere than in the Province of Quebec, under an order of a court of any property of the company to enforce or realize on any lien, mortgage, charge or other security on the property of the company;

• (d) the sale, in the Province of Quebec, under an order of a court or by judicial authority, of any property of the company to enforce or realize on any hypothec, charge or other security on the property of the company; and

• (e) the exercise of remedies for the enforcement and realization of any prior claim referred to in paragraph (b) or the exercise of any right of retention referred to in that paragraph.

• Marginal note:Council incorporated

  (2) The Council is a body corporate that has power to acquire and hold real, personal, movable and immovable property for the purposes of and subject to this Act.

• f) acquérir, par don, legs ou autre mode de libéralités, des biens, notamment sous forme d’argent ou de valeurs mobilières, et les employer, les gérer ou en disposer, pourvu qu’il respecte les conditions dont sont assorties ces libéralités;

Marginal note:Libéralités

16. Le Conseil peut, par don, legs ou autre mode de libéralités, acquérir des biens, notamment sous forme d’argent ou de valeurs mobilières et, malgré toute disposition contraire de la présente loi, les employer, les gérer ou en disposer, pourvu qu’il respecte les conditions dont sont assorties ces libéralités.

• Marginal note:Charge on land

  (2.6) A document issued by the Federal Court or by a superior court of a province evidencing a certificate in respect of a debtor registered under subsection (2.3) or (2.4) may be recorded for the purpose of creating security, or a charge, lien or legal hypothec, on land in a province, or on an interest in land in a province, held or owned by the debtor, in the same manner as a document evidencing a judgment of the superior court of the province against a person for a debt owing by the person may be recorded in accordance with the law of the province to create security, or a charge, lien or legal hypothec, on land, or an interest in land, held or owned by the person.

Marginal note:No assignment of interest of members

15. The interest of any member of a pension fund society in the funds of the society is not transferable, and may not be charged by way of pledge, hypothecation or movable hypothec without delivery, or be sold or assigned in any manner.

Marginal note:Titre abrégé

1. Loi sur l’indemnisation du dommage causé par des pesticides.

INDEMNISATION DU DOMMAGE CAUSÉ PAR DES PESTICIDES

• (d) the Minister is satisfied that the presence of the pesticide residue in or on the product is not due to any fault of the farmer, the farmer’s employee, agent or mandatary or of a previous owner of the land on which the product was grown, or that previous owner’s employee, agent or mandatary.

Marginal note:Action by farmer

• 5. (1) No payment of compensation shall be made to a farmer under this Act in respect of a loss suffered by the farmer by reason of pesticide residue in or on an agricultural product until the farmer has taken any steps that the Minister considers necessary

  • (a) to reduce the loss suffered by the farmer by reason of that pesticide residue; and

  • (b) to pursue any legal action that the farmer may have against

    • (i) the manufacturer of the pesticide causing the residue in or on the product, or

    • (ii) every person responsible for the presence of the pesticide residue in or on the product.

• (h.5) determining the cases in which and the conditions, including provision of a bond or suretyship, under which seeds shall, for the purposes of this Act, be transported and stored on importation;

Marginal note:Libéralités

17. Le Conseil peut, par don, legs ou autre mode de libéralités, acquérir des biens, notamment sous forme d’argent ou de valeurs mobilières et, malgré toute disposition contraire de la présente loi, les employer, les gérer ou en disposer, pourvu qu’il respecte les conditions dont sont assorties ces libéralités.

Marginal note:Property

18. The Council may, for the purposes of this Act, acquire, hold, manage and dispose of real, personal, movable and immovable property and, subject to this Act, and on the advice of the Investment Committee, may invest in any manner it sees fit any money received by the Council by gift, bequest or otherwise and may hold, manage and dispose of the investment.

• Marginal note:Existing equities maintained

  (3) All secured and unsecured rights and interests held by persons, other than

  • (a) a foreign state to which the order referred to in subsection (1) applies,

  • (b) persons in that foreign state, and

  • (c) nationals of that foreign state who do not ordinarily reside in Canada,

  are entitled to the same ranking with respect to the rights and interests of Her Majesty and the owner in the proceeds of the sale referred to in subsection (2) as they would have been entitled to had this section not been enacted.

Marginal note:Recouvrement de dommages- intérêts

• 72. (1) Sous réserve des limites de responsabilité fixées sous le régime de la présente loi ou de toute autre loi, quiconque a subi une perte ou un dommage par suite d’un manquement soit aux dispositions de la présente loi ou d’une loi spéciale, soit à une décision ou un règlement pris au titre de celles-ci, peut en poursuivre, devant le tribunal compétent, le recouvrement contre le contrevenant ou celui qui a ordonné ou autorisé le manquement, ou qui y a consenti ou participé.

• Marginal note:Liability for costs

  (7) Any persons convicted in respect of the forfeited apparatus are jointly and severally, or solidarily, liable for all the costs of inspection, seizure, forfeiture or disposition incurred by Her Majesty that exceed any proceeds of the disposition of the apparatus that have been forfeited to Her Majesty under this section.

• (e) to secure by bond or suretyship the performance of any of the agreements mentioned in paragraphs (a) to (d).

Marginal note:Powers relating to land

• 15. (1) Any trade union registered under this Act may purchase, or take on lease, in the names of the trustees of the trade union, any land not exceeding one acre, and may sell, exchange, mortgage, hypothecate or lease the land.

• Marginal note:Authority of trustees

  (2) No purchaser, assignee, mortgagee, hypothecary creditor or tenant is bound to inquire whether the trustees of a trade union registered under this Act have authority for any sale, exchange, mortgage, hypothec or lease, and the receipt of the trustees is a discharge for the money arising from the sale, exchange, mortgage, hypothec or lease.

• Marginal note:Salaries

  (2) A member of a visiting force is exempt from taxation in Canada on the salary and emoluments paid to the member as a member by a designated state and in respect of any tangible personal or corporeal movable property that is in Canada temporarily by reason of the member’s presence in Canada as a member.

Marginal note:Liability for costs

11.5 The lawful owner and any person who is lawfully entitled to the possession of anything seized, abandoned or forfeited under this Act are jointly and severally, or solidarily, liable for all the costs of inspection, seizure, abandonment, forfeiture or disposition incurred by Her Majesty in excess of any proceeds of its disposition that have been forfeited to Her Majesty under this Act.

• (c) Agency real property and Agency immovables as defined in section 73; and

REAL PROPERTY AND IMMOVABLES

Marginal note:Definitions

73. The definitions in this section apply in this section and in sections 74 to 84.

“administration”

« gestion »

“administration” means the right to use, manage, construct, maintain or repair real property and immovables.

“Agency immovable”

« immeubles de l’Agence »

“Agency immovable” means an immovable under the administration of the Agency.

“Agency real property”

« biens réels de l’Agence »

“Agency real property” means real property under the administration of the Agency.

“immovable”

« immeuble »

“immovable” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act.

“licence”

« permis »

“licence” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act.

“real property”

« biens réels »

“real property” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act.

Marginal note:Administration of real property and immovables

• 74. (1) The Agency has the administration of

  • (a) real property acquired by the Agency by purchase, lease, transfer, gift, devise or otherwise; and

  • (b) immovables acquired by the Agency by purchase, transfer, gift, legacy or otherwise and immovables of which it is the lessee.

• Marginal note:Title

  (2) Agency real property and Agency immovables are the property of the Crown and title may be held in the name of Her Majesty in right of Canada or in the name of the Agency.

• Marginal note:Transfer of administration of real property and immovables

  (3) For greater certainty, where the administration of any real property or immovable is transferred to the Agency, that real property or immovable is Agency real property or an Agency immovable.

Marginal note:Acquisition and leasing of real property and immovables

• 75. (1) The Agency may, in its own name or in the name of Her Majesty in right of Canada,

  • (a) acquire real property by purchase, lease, gift, devise or otherwise; and

  • (b) acquire immovables by purchase, gift, legacy or otherwise and lease immovables as lessee.

• Marginal note:Disposition and leasing of real property and immovables

  (2) The Agency may

  • (a) dispose of Agency real property by sale, lease, gift or otherwise; and

  • (b) dispose of Agency immovables by sale, gift or otherwise and lease Agency immovables as lessor.

• Marginal note:Transactions with Her Majesty

  (3) The Agency may, as if it were not an agent of Her Majesty,

  • (a) acquire real property from, or dispose of Agency real property to, Her Majesty by deed, lease or otherwise; and

  • (b) acquire immovables from, and dispose of Agency immovables to, Her Majesty, by act or otherwise, and lease immovables from, or lease Agency immovables to, Her Majesty.

Marginal note:Licences

76. The Agency may give, acquire, relinquish or accept the relinquishment of a licence.

Marginal note:Transfers to provinces

• 77. (1) The Agency may transfer to Her Majesty in right of a province the administration and control of any Agency real property and Agency immovables.

• Marginal note:Transfers from provinces

  (2) The Agency may accept a transfer of the administration and control of any real property or immovables held by Her Majesty in right of a province.

Marginal note:Grants and concessions

• 78. (1) Agency real property may be granted and Agency immovables may be conceded

  • (a) by letters patent under the Great Seal;

  • (b) by an instrument of grant or an act of concession stating that it has the same force and effect as if it were letters patent;

  • (c) by a plan if, under the laws of Canada or a province, a plan may operate as an instrument or act granting, conceding, dedicating, transferring or conveying real property or immovables;

  • (d) by any instrument or act by which, under the laws in force in the province in which they are situated, real property or immovables may be transferred by a natural person; or

  • (e) by any instrument or act by which, under the laws in force in a jurisdiction outside Canada in which they are situated, real property or immovables may be transferred.

• Marginal note:Leases

  (2) A leasehold estate in Agency real property within Canada may also be granted and a lease of Agency immovables within Canada may also be conceded by a lease that is not an instrument or act referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or (b), whether or not it is an instrument or act by which real property or immovables in a province may be transferred by a natural person.

• Marginal note:Effect of instrument or act

  (3) An instrument or act referred to in paragraph (1)(b) has the same force and effect as if the instrument or act were letters patent under the Great Seal.

Marginal note:Signing instruments and acts

79. A licence, an instrument or an act granting, conceding or transferring Agency real property or Agency immovables, other than letters patent, must be signed by persons authorized to do so by the Agency.

Marginal note:Grants and concessions to Agency

80. The Agency may grant Agency real property, and may concede Agency immovables, to itself.

Marginal note:Utilities

• 81. (1) The Agency may provide utilities and other services on or from Agency real property and Agency immovables.

• Marginal note:Services

  (2) In carrying out its mandate, the Agency may incur expenditures or perform, or have performed, services or work in relation to any real property, immovable, work or other property not belonging to the Agency, with the consent of the owner.

Marginal note:Grants to municipalities

82. The Agency may make grants to a local municipality in an amount not greater than the taxes that might be levied by the municipality in respect of any Agency real property or Agency immovables if the Agency were not an agent of Her Majesty.

Marginal note:Consideration

83. Despite the Financial Administration Act, the amount of the rent or other consideration charged for the lease or easement of Agency real property, or the lease of or servitude over Agency immovables or a licence in respect of Agency real property or Agency immovables may be less than, equal to or more than the costs borne by Her Majesty in right of Canada in relation to the property.

Marginal note:Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act not applicable

• 84. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act does not apply to the Agency.

• Marginal note:Sections that apply to Agency

  (2) Sections 8 and 9, subsection 11(2) and sections 12, 13 and 14 of the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act apply to the Agency and any reference in those provisions to

  • (a) federal real property is to be read as a reference to Agency real property;

  • (b) federal immovables is to be read as a reference to Agency immovables; and

  • (c) an instrument or act referred to in paragraph 5(1)(b) of that Act is to be read as a reference to an instrument or act referred to in paragraph 78(1)(b) of this Act.

• Marginal note:Par. 16(2)(g) of the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act applies

  (3) Paragraph 16(2)(g) of the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act applies to the Agency as if it were an agent corporation within the meaning of that Act.

• Marginal note:Real property and immovables

  (2) The administration of any real property or immovable and the administrative responsibility for any licence in respect of real property and immovables, as those terms are defined in section 73, that were, immediately before the coming into force of this section, under the administration or administrative responsibility of the Minister of National Revenue for the purposes of the Department of National Revenue are transferred to the Agency.

“port”

« port »

“port” means the navigable waters under the jurisdiction of a port authority and the real property and immovables that the port authority manages, holds or occupies as set out in the letters patent.

• (b) the management of the federal real property and federal immovables set out in the letters patent, and any rights related to them, is conferred on the port authority;

• (c) the real property and immovables, other than federal real property and federal immovables, that the harbour commission occupied or the title to which it held, whether or not in its own name, and that are set out in the letters patent, and any rights related to them, become the interest, property and rights of the port authority, as the case may be;

• Marginal note:Existing uses

  (10) Except for a use authorized under this Act, a port authority may continue to use any real property or immovable that it manages, holds or occupies for any purpose for which the real property or immovable was used on June 1, 1996 in the case of a port authority referred to in section 12, or the date of issuance of its letters patent in any other case, but, if the port authority ceases to use it for that purpose at any time, the port authority may not reinstitute the use.

Marginal note:Powers and obligations when management given

• 45. (1) When the Minister has given the management of any federal real property or federal immovable to a port authority, the port authority

  • (a) need not pay compensation for the use of that property;

  • (b) may retain and use the revenue received in respect of that property for the purpose of operating the port;

  • (c) shall undertake and defend any legal proceedings with respect to that property; and

  • (d) shall discharge all obligations and liabilities with respect to that property.

• Marginal note:Legal proceedings

  (2) A civil, criminal or administrative action or proceeding with respect to any federal real property or federal immovable that a port authority manages, or any property that it holds, or with respect to any act or omission occurring on the property, shall be taken by or against the port authority and not by or against the Crown.

• Marginal note:Leases and licences

  (3) A port authority may, for the purpose of operating the port, lease or license any federal real property or federal immovable that it manages, subject to the limits in the port authority’s letters patent on its authority to contract as agent for Her Majesty in right of Canada. The term of the lease or licence may not be more than the maximum term that the letters patent set out for such a lease or licence.

• Marginal note:Powers

  (3.1) The port authority may exercise the powers under subsection (3) to the same extent as Her Majesty could exercise those powers and may, instead of Her Majesty, execute and deliver the documents required for that purpose.

• Marginal note:Application of provincial law

  (4) A lease or licence of any federal real property or federal immovable may be effected by any instrument by which, under the laws in force in the province in which that property is situated, real property or immovables may be leased or a licence may be granted by a private person.

Marginal note:Disposition of federal real property and federal immovables

• 46. (1) Subject to subsection 45(3), a port authority may not dispose of any federal real property or federal immovable that it manages but it may

  • (a) without the issuance of supplementary letters patent, grant road allowances or easements, rights of way or licences for utilities, services or access; and

  • (b) to the extent authorized in the letters patent,

    • (i) exchange that property for other real property or immovables of comparable market value subject to the issuance of supplementary letters patent that describe the other property as federal real property or federal immovables, and

    • (ii) dispose of fixtures on federal real property and federal immovables.

• Marginal note:Powers

  (1.1) The port authority may exercise the powers under paragraph (1)(a) or (b) to the same extent as Her Majesty could exercise those powers and may, instead of Her Majesty, execute and deliver the documents required for that purpose.

• Marginal note:Other real property and immovables

  (2) A port authority may dispose of any real property or immovable that it occupies or holds, other than federal real property or federal immovables, subject to the issuance of supplementary letters patent, and, without the issuance of supplementary letters patent, it may grant road allowances or easements, rights of way or licences for utilities, services or access.

• Marginal note:Application of provincial law

  (3) A grant may be effected by any instrument by which an interest in real property or a right in an immovable may be granted by a private person under the laws in force in the province in which the federal real property or federal immovable is situated.

Marginal note:Land-use plan

• 48. (1) A port authority shall, within twelve months after the issuance of its letters patent, develop a detailed land-use plan that contains objectives and policies for the physical development of the real property and immovables that it manages, holds or occupies and that takes into account relevant social, economic and environmental matters and zoning by-laws that apply to neighbouring lands.

• Marginal note:Contents of plan

  (2) The land-use plan may

  • (a) prohibit the use of some or all of the real property and immovables for, or except for, certain purposes;

  • (b) prohibit the erecting of structures or works or certain types of structures or works; and

  • (c) subject to any regulations made under section 62, regulate the type of structures or works that may be erected.

• Marginal note:Existing structures

  (3) A land-use plan shall not have the effect of preventing

  • (a) the use of any real property or immovable existing on the day on which the land-use plan comes into force for the purpose for which it was used on that day, so long as it continues to be used for that purpose; or

  • (b) the erecting or alteration of a structure or work that was authorized before the day on which the land-use plan comes into force if the erecting or alteration is carried out in accordance with the authorization.

• (h) the stewardship obligation of a port authority in respect of federal real property and federal immovables under the management of the port authority.

Marginal note:Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act

• 66. (1) For the purposes of the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act, the Minister has the administration of the federal real property and federal immovables that form part of a public port or public port facility.

• Marginal note:Other ports and facilities

  (2) The Minister does not have the administration of the federal real property and federal immovables that are under the administration of any other member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada.

• Marginal note:Power of Minister

  (3) For greater certainty, the repeal of the designation of a public port or public port facility does not terminate the application of the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act to the federal real property and federal immovables that formed part of the port or facility and that are owned by Her Majesty in right of Canada.

Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables

Marginal note:Leases and licences

• 71. (1) Despite the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act, the Minister may lease any federal real property or federal immovable that forms, or formed, part of a public port or public port facility or grant a licence in respect of the property, for twenty years or for a longer period with the approval of the Governor in Council.

• Marginal note:Application of provincial law

  (2) A lease or licence of any federal real property or federal immovable may be effected by any instrument by which, under the laws in force in the province in which that property is situated, real property or immovables may be leased or a licence may be granted by a private person.

Marginal note:Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act

90. For the purposes of the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act, the Minister or other member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada to whom any federal real property or federal immovable is transferred under subsection 80(1) or (2) has the administration of that property.

• Marginal note:Legal proceedings

  (2) A civil, criminal or administrative action or proceeding with respect to any federal real property or federal immovable that a person who has entered into an agreement under subsection 80(5) manages, or any property that the person holds, or with respect to any act or omission occurring on the property, shall be taken by or against the person and not the Crown.

• Marginal note:Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act does not apply

  (3) The Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act, other than section 12, does not apply to a lease or licence referred to in paragraph (1)(c).

• Marginal note:Application of provincial law

  (4) A lease or licence may be effected by any instrument by which real property or immovables may be leased or a licence may be granted by a private person under the laws in force in the province in which the property is situated.

Marginal note:Pouvoir réglementaire

• 98. (1) Le gouverneur en conseil peut prendre des règlements en vue de la gestion, du contrôle, de l’aménagement et de l’utilisation de la voie maritime, des immeubles et des biens réels ou entreprises connexes, notamment en ce qui touche :

• Marginal note:Pooling agreement by Her Majesty

  (2) The Board may, on behalf of Her Majesty, enter into a pooling agreement on any terms and conditions that it deems advisable and, despite anything in Part II or this Part, the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act or any regulations made under those Parts or that Act, the pooling agreement is binding on Her Majesty.

• Marginal note:Board may enter into unit agreement

  (2) The Board may enter into a unit agreement binding on Her Majesty, on any terms and conditions that it may deem advisable, and any of the regulations under Part II or this Part or the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act that may be in conflict with the terms and conditions of the unit agreement stand varied or suspended to the extent necessary to give full effect to the terms and conditions of the unit agreement.

• Marginal note:Pooling agreement by Her Majesty

  (2) The Board may, on behalf of Her Majesty, enter into a pooling agreement on any terms and conditions that it deems advisable and, despite anything in Part II or this Part, the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act or any regulations made under those Parts or that Act, the pooling agreement is binding on Her Majesty.

• Marginal note:Board may enter into unit agreement

  (2) The Board may enter into a unit agreement binding on Her Majesty, on any terms and conditions that it may deem advisable, and any of the regulations under Part II or this Part or the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act that may be in conflict with the terms and conditions of the unit agreement stand varied or suspended to the extent necessary to give full effect to the terms and conditions of the unit agreement.

• (b) subject to the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act and any direction made by the Treasury Board,

Marginal note:Transfers, etc., of public property

• 61. (1) Subject to any other Act of Parliament, no transfer, lease or loan of public property shall be made except under the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act in the case of federal real property or a federal immovable as defined in that Act, or under subsection (2) in the case of other public property.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (2) The Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Treasury Board, may authorize or make regulations authorizing the transfer, lease or loan of public property other than federal real property and federal immovables as defined in the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act.

• Marginal note:Provision and Acts not applicable

  (6) Section 61 of this Act, the Surplus Crown Assets Act, and the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act, except paragraphs 16(1)(g) and (h) and (2)(g) and subsection 18(6), do not apply to an agent corporation.

Marginal note:Claims in liability against Canadian Commissioner

9. For the purposes of section 3 of the Crown Liability and Proceedings Act, the person appointed by the Governor in Council to be the Canadian member of the Commission while acting within the scope of the member’s duties or employment shall be deemed to be a servant of the Crown.

• Marginal note:Pooling agreement by Her Majesty

  (2) The Minister may, on behalf of Her Majesty, enter into a pooling agreement on any terms and conditions that the Minister deems advisable and, despite anything in this Act, the Territorial Lands Act, the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act, the Canada Petroleum Resources Act or any regulations made under those Acts, the pooling agreement is binding on Her Majesty.

• Marginal note:Minister may enter into unit agreement

  (2) The Minister may enter into a unit agreement binding on Her Majesty, on any terms and conditions that the Minister may deem advisable, and any of the regulations under this Act, the Territorial Lands Act, the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act or the Canada Petroleum Resources Act that may be in conflict with the terms and conditions of the unit agreement stand varied or suspended to the extent necessary to give full effect to the terms and conditions of the unit agreement.

• (b) the right or interest has been granted to the third party under the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act; or

• (a) any of the following transactions in respect of federal real property and federal immovables under the administration of the Minister for the purposes of the Agency:

  • (i) the sale or any other disposition in perpetuity of any right or interest,

  • (ii) the transfer of administration to another minister or to an agent corporation, and

  • (iii) the transfer of administration and control in perpetuity to Her Majesty other than in right of Canada; and

• Marginal note:Limit on expenditures

  (4) There may be charged to the fund referred to in section 5.1 and credited to the fund established by this section

  • (a) any fees payable to the Minister of Public Works and Government Services for the sale or transfer of federal real property or federal immovables; and

  • (b) any expenditures made under subsection (1) in respect of the sale or transfer of that property, including expenditures made to prepare the property for sale or transfer.

Marginal note:Application

2.1 This Act does not apply in respect of real property or immovables as defined in the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act or licences in respect thereof.

• Marginal note:Real property and immovables excluded

  (3) This section does not apply in respect of any instrument or act the execution of which is provided for by or under the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act.

Marginal note:Claims against designated states

15. For the purposes of the Crown Liability and Proceedings Act,

• (a) in the Province of Quebec

  • (i) a fault committed by a member of a visiting force while acting within the scope of their duties or employment shall be deemed to have been committed by a servant of the Crown while acting within the scope of their duties or employment,

  • (ii) property owned by or in the custody of a visiting force shall be deemed to be owned by or in the custody of the Crown, and

  • (iii) a service motor vehicle of a visiting force shall be deemed to be owned by the Crown; and

• (b) in any other province,

  • (i) a tort committed by a member of a visiting force while acting within the scope of their duties or employment shall be deemed to have been committed by a servant of the Crown while acting within the scope of their duties or employment,

  • (ii) property owned, occupied, possessed or controlled by a visiting force shall be deemed to be owned, occupied, possessed or controlled by the Crown, and

  • (iii) a service motor vehicle of a visiting force shall be deemed to be owned by the Crown.