Second Session, 44th General Assembly

49 Elizabeth II, 2000

BILL 15

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

LANDS ACT

Received and Read the First

Time

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

HONOURABLE ERNEST MCLEAN

Minister of Government Services And Lands

Ordered to be printed by the

Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend

section 7 of the Lands

Act with respect to the buffer of Crown land around waterways in

the province.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LANDS ACT

Analysis

1. S.7 Amdt.

Reservation of shoreline

Be it enacted by the

Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative

Session convened, as follows:

SN1991 c36

as amended

1. Subsection 7(1) of the Lands Act is repealed

and the following substituted:

Reservation of shoreline

(1) Where Crown lands that border on a lake,

pond, river, the seashore or foreshore are granted, leased or

licensed under this Part, it is considered, in the absence of an

express grant, lease or licence of those Crown lands, that a strip

of Crown lands not less than 15 metres wide around and adjoining the

lake, pond, seashore or foreshore or along each bank of the river

was not intended to pass and did not pass to the grantee, lessee or

licensee.

(1.1) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where lands

are granted, leased or licensed under this Part

(

a) for residential purposes;

(

b) for a purpose referred to in

section

9 including the installation of water and sewer works and

the construction of public roads by a municipality; or

(

c) for the purpose of a grant, lease or

licence under a lease, licence or permit to occupy issued

before the coming into force of this subsection,

the strip of Crown lands around and adjoining the

lake, pond, seashore or foreshore or along each bank of the river

may be no less than 10 metres wide.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer