R-13 - Watercourses Act

Section 6 Disposition versions

1999-10-22

6. A court may order, upon an ordinary action instituted by the Attorney General, the demolition of any work and the restoration of the premises to their original condition or to a condition approaching as nearly as possible thereto, where a person constructs or maintains any work on the banks and beds of rivers and lakes forming part of the domain of the State, as well as on the bed and foreshore of the sea, without obtaining beforehand the sale or lease of or an occupation licence for the immovable concerned.

R. S. 1964, c. 84, s. 6; 1982, c. 25, s. 24; 1999, c. 40, s. 251.

1982-06-23

6. A court may order, upon an ordinary action instituted by the Attorney General, the demolition of any work and the restoration of the premises to their original condition or to a condition approaching as nearly as possible thereto, where a person constructs or maintains any work on the banks and beds of rivers and lakes forming part of the public domain, as well as on the bed and foreshore of the sea, without obtaining beforehand the sale or lease of or an occupation licence for the immoveable concerned.

R. S. 1964, c. 84, s. 6; 1982, c. 25, s. 24.

1977-12-31

6. (1)  No flood-gate, flume, embankment, dam, dike or other similar work the construction or maintenance of which will cause public property or the property of third persons or public or private rights to be affected, either by the backing up of the water or otherwise, shall be constructed or maintained in any of the watercourses referred to in section 5, unless the site on which it is to be constructed has been approved by the Government, nor unless it is constructed and maintained in accordance with plans and specifications likewise approved by the Government.

(2)  If any such work be constructed without such approval, or if, after having been constructed, it be not kept up in accordance with the plans and specifications which have been so approved, the demolition of such work and the restoration of such public or private land to its original condition or to a condition as nearly as possible approaching thereto, may be ordered by any court of competent jurisdiction, upon an ordinary action instituted by the Crown or by any interested party, according as the land taken, occupied or affected is public or private property, without prejudice to any other recourse at law.

R. S. 1964, c. 84, s. 6.