Veterans’ Land Regulations — 34
34 (1) Where, under section 11, 13 or 23 of the Act, the Director contracts to sell to a veteran a property (a) to be used for farming as the full-time occupation of the veteran, the veteran shall immediately commence personal operation of the land described in the contract in a good husbandmanlike and proper manner and shall continue such personal operation thereof in a similar manner during the 10-year period immediately following the date of the agreement of sale; or (b) to be used by the veteran in his full-time occupation as a commercial fisherman or for farming purposes as a part-time occupation, the veteran shall in either case immediately commence actual residence on the property and shall continue to reside thereon and use the property in a good husbandmanlike and proper manner during the 10-year period immediately following the date of the agreement of sale. (2) The Director may, on written application by a veteran described in subsection (1), grant permission for discontinuance by the veteran of his actual residence on or personal operation of property that the Director has contracted to sell to him for (a) a specified period or periods of time not exceeding, in respect of all applications made by that veteran, two years in the aggregate during the 10-year period immediately following the effective date of the relative agreement of sale; and (b) an indefinite period of time subsequent to the 10-year period immediately following the effective date of the relative agreement of sale. (3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), the Director and the veteran may enter into an agreement in writing supplementary to the agreement for sale providing that (a) the veteran will resume immediate residence on or personal operation of the land should the reason for which relief from residence on or operation of the land is granted cease to exist or following the date on which the approved period of such relief expires, whichever is the earlier, and continue his residence on or personal operation of the land for a period that, together with the period already spent in actual residence or personal operation and any period of non-residence or non-operation previously approved, will aggregate 10 years; and (b) failure to comply with the terms of the supplementary agreement will constitute a breach of the term of the agreement for sale requiring continuous residence. (4) Where, (a) temporary discontinuance of actual residence or personal operation has been approved pursuant to paragraph (2)(a) for an aggregate period of two years during the first 10-year period immediately following the date of agreement for sale, and (b) in the opinion of a licensed medical practitioner employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs on a full-time, part-time or half-day fee basis acting under the authority of the Director General, Treatment Services of the Department, the veteran is unable, because of ill-health, to resume or continue actual residence or personal operation, any additional period may be deemed to be actual residence or personal operation by the veteran. (5) A report by the medical practitioner in respect of the veteran described in subsection (4) shall be submitted to the Director every 12 months or more frequently if the medical practitioner considers it appropriate. (6) For the purpose of subsection (4), any period during which there has been no resumption of actual residence or personal operation after the medical practitioner has reported that the veteran is able to resume the residence or operation shall not be deemed to be actual residence or personal operation. (7) For the purposes of this section, personal operation or personal residence by the spouse of a veteran is deemed to be personal operation or personal residence by that veteran.