Department of Justice
www.justice.gc.ca
Common menu bar links
Bijural Terminology Records
Common Law
right to the use
Civil Law
right to the use
Title of the Legislative Text
Federal Real Property Act, S.C. 1991, c. 50 (title
changed to Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act by the Federal
Law-Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 1, S.C. 2001, c. 4, s. 10)
Provision
18. (4) Where any federal real property is
under the administration of a Minister for the purposes of a department, that
Minister has the right to the use of that property
....
Problem
In the French version, the term droit à l'usage has a
particular meaning in civil law which is not appropriate in this context and
does not correspond to the notion of
"right to the use"found in the English version.
Solution
In the French version, the term droit à l'usage is
replaced by droit à l'utilisation in
order to correspond to the term
"right to the use"found in the English version.
Harmonized Provision
(amendment to the French version only)
18. (4) Where any federal real property or federal immovable is under the administration of a Minister for the purposes of a department, that Minister has the right to the use of that property ....
Federal Law-Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 1, S.C. 2001, c. 4, s. 20
