A-4 - Act respecting the acquisition of colonization lands

Section 1 Disposition versions

1980-01-24

1. Without revoking or restricting the rights and powers provided for by sections 24 and 26 of the Lands and Forests Act (chapter T-9), whenever the interests of colonization may require, the Government may authorize the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to acquire any territory, either by way of purchase or exchange or, failing agreement, by expropriation:

(a)  To develop or extend parishes or any territory where settlers are established;

(b)  To connect two or more territories where settlers are established and to colonize the intermediate and adjoining lands;

(c)  To open up any territory, near a centre or a parish, capable of immediately and advantageously serving for the establishing of the surplus population of such centre or parish;

(d)  To improve and drain certain uncultivable barren lands, or unused lands of the same nature, held in common or by private title.

R. S. 1964, c. 103, s. 1; 1973, c. 22, s. 22; 1979, c. 77, s. 21.

1977-12-31

1. Without revoking or restricting the rights and powers provided for by sections 24 and 26 of the Lands and Forests Act (chapter T-9), whenever the interests of colonization may require, the Gouvernement may authorize the Minister of Agriculture to acquire any territory, either by way of purchase or exchange or, failing agreement, by expropriation:

(a)  To develop or extend parishes or any territory where settlers are established;

(b)  To connect two or more territories where settlers are established and to colonize the intermediate and adjoining lands;

(c)  To open up any territory, near a centre or a parish, capable of immediately and advantageously serving for the establishing of the surplus population of such centre or parish;

(d)  To improve and drain certain uncultivable barren lands, or unused lands of the same nature, held in common or by private title.

R. S. 1964, c. 103, s. 1; 1973, c. 22, s. 22.