T-15 - Public Works Act

Section 47 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

47. If the Minister has reason to believe that such land is encumbered with claims or hypothecs, or if the party to whom the whole or a part of such compensation money is payable, refuses to execute the conveyance thereof and give proper security, or if a party who has a right to such compensation money cannot be found or be unknown to the Minister, or if, for any other reason, the Minister deems it advisable, he may pay such compensation money into the hands of the prothonotary of the Superior Court for the district in which such land is situated, with six months’ interest thereon, and deliver to the prothonotary an authentic copy of such conveyance, and, on petition by the Crown, measures shall be taken for the confirmation of the title, except that, in addition to the ordinary contents of the notice, the prothonotary shall announce that such title (that is to say the conveyance) is under this act, and shall require all persons who have any claim to such land or to any part thereof, or the representatives or husband of any person having any claim thereto, to file their opposition for such claims to the compensation money either wholly or in part. All such oppositions shall be received and adjudicated upon by the court, and the judgment in confirmation shall finally dispose of all claims to such lands or to any part thereof, as well as all encumbrances and hypothecs.

R. S. 1964, c. 138, s. 47.