26. The Minister may, except in case of opposition by a third party vested with rights on the land contemplated, cancel defective letters patent and issue corrected letters patent bearing the date of those cancelled, if they have been issued to a person not entitled to them or if they contain an error concerning the area or designation of the land contemplated, a mistake in the beneficiary’s name or any other clerical error.
However, if a required correction can be made in the letters patent without cancelling them, the Minister may make it and give notice of it and, where required, to the registrar of Québec and to the registrar of the registration division concerned to have an entry of it made in the margin of the document so corrected.
1982, c. 13, s. 26; 1987, c. 84, s. 17.