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State Immunity Act

Version of section 11 from 2012-03-13 to 2024-04-01:


Marginal note:No injunction, specific performance, etc., without consent

  •  (1) Subject to subsection (3), no relief by way of an injunction, specific performance or the recovery of land or other property may be granted against a foreign state unless the state consents in writing to that relief and, where the state so consents, the relief granted shall not be greater than that consented to by the state.

  • Marginal note:Submission not consent

    (2) Submission by a foreign state to the jurisdiction of a court is not consent for the purposes of subsection (1).

  • Marginal note:Exception

    (3) This section does not apply either to an agency of a foreign state or to a foreign state that is set out on the list referred to in subsection 6.1(2) in respect of an action brought against that foreign state for its support of terrorism or its terrorist activity.

  • R.S., 1985, c. S-18, s. 11
  • 2012, c. 1, s. 6

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