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Chapter A-9 Current as of January 1, 2002 AGRICULTURAL AND RECREATIONAL LAND OWNERSHIP ACT

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Note All persons making use of this document are reminded that it has no legislative sanction. The official Statutes and Regulations should be consulted for all purposes of interpreting and applying the law. Regulations The following is a list of the regulations made under the Agricultural and Recreational Land Ownership Act that are filed as Alberta Regulations under the Regulations Act. Alta. Reg. Amendments Agricultural and Recreational Land Ownership Act Foreign Ownership of Land ........................... 160/79 ............. 223/79, 31/80, 236/82, 251/2001, 109/2003, 288/2009, 115/2020, 47/2021

AGRICULTURAL AND RECREATIONAL LAND OWNERSHIP ACT

Chapter A-9 Table of Contents 1

Definitions 2 Regulations 3 Exemption 4 Exclusions from operation of regulations 5 Information in respect of members HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows:

Definitions 1 In this Act, (a) “controlled land” means land in Alberta but does not inclu de (

i) land of the Crown in right of Alberta, (ii) land within the boundaries of a city, town, village or summer village, and (iii) mines and minerals; (b) “parcel” means an area of l and the boundaries of which are (

i) shown on a plan registered or filed in a land titles office, or (ii) described in the certif icate of title to the land, and that has not b een divided into smaller areas by an instrument or plan registered or filed in a land titles office, other than a registered road plan or right of way plan, or by a natural boundary shown on a plan registered in a land titles office. RSA 1980 cA-9 s1;1994 cM-26.1 s642(2)

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Section 2

Chapter A-9 AGRICULTURAL AND RECREATIONAL LAND OWNERSHIP ACT 2 Regulations 2 Subject to

section 3, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations, within the legislative authority of the Legislature and complementary to any regulations that the Lieutenant Governor in Council makes pursuant to

section 35 of the Citizenship Act (Canada), for the purpose of prohibiting, annulling or in any manner restricting the taking or acquisition directly or indirectly of, or the succession to, any interest in controlled land. RSA 1980 cA-9 s2;1994 c23 s50 Exemption 3 Regulations made under

section 2 do not operate so as to prohibit, annul or in any manner restrict the ownership by a person of interests in controlled land consisting of not more than 2 parcels containing, in the aggregate, not more than 20 acres. RSA 1980 cA-9 s3 Exclusions from operation of regulations 4 Regulations made under

section 2 may provide for the exclusion from the operation of all or any part of those regulations of (

a) any person or class of persons, (

b) any transaction or class of transactions involving control led land, (

c) any interest or class of i nterest in controlled land, (

d) any use or class of uses of controlled land, and (

e) all or any part of the land within the boundaries of a ham let designated or continued under the Municipal Government Act. RSA 1980 cA-9 s4;1994 cM-26.1 s642(2) Information in respect of members 5 The Lieutenant Governor in Council may, for the purpose of giving effect to this Act and the regulations and any regulations that the Lieutenant Governor in Council makes pursuant to

section 35 of the Citizenship Act (Canada), make regulations requiring that a director, officer or member of a corporation specified in the regulations supply the information specified in the regulations in respect of the members of the corporation to the person requesting the information, in the form and at the times specified in the regulations. RSA 1980 cA-9 s5;1994 c23 s50

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