Soldier Settlement Act — S-12.8 2
Definitions 2 In this Act, and in any regulations made under it, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression (a) agricultural land means land which, in the opinion of the Board, is adaptable for agricultural purposes and the value whereof for any other purpose is not greater than its value for agricultural purposes; (b) block means a parcel or parcels of land owned within a settlement area by any person, and whether or not the parcels are contiguous the one to the other, but including only the parcels any part of any one whereof is situated within three miles from any part of another of them; (c) Board means the Director of Soldier Settlement; (cc) Commissioner of the Board means the Director of Soldier Settlement; (d) Court means the Federal Court of Canada; (e) district superintendent means a person appointed as such by the Board; (f) Dominion lands means any lands owned or held by the Dominion of Canada, excepting Indian or School Lands; (g) former Act means The Soldier Settlement Act, 1917 ; (h) gazetted means published in the Canada Gazette ; (i) land or lands includes granted or ungranted, Dominion, provincial or private lands, and real or immovable property, messuages, lands, tenements and hereditaments of any tenure, and real rights, easements and servitudes, streams, watercourses, waters, roads and ways, and all rights or interests in, or over, or arising out of, and all charges upon, land or lands as herein defined; (j) military and military forces include “naval” and “naval forces”; (k) Minister means the Minister of Veterans Affairs; (l) owner includes a person holding private land in fee simple, and a person who, being trustee, executor, administrator, life tenant, mortgagee or otherwise, has the legal power to will or convey, whether with or without the consent or approval of a court or of any person having any estate or interest, such land to be held in fee simple or by a person as the owner thereof; (m) permanent improvements and improvements includes buildings; (n) private land means any land which has been alienated by the Crown; (o) property includes land, as herein defined, and goods, chattels real and personal, and personal or movable property, and all rights or interests in, or over, or arising out of, and all charges upon, property as herein defined; (p) Registrar of Deeds or Registrar includes the registrar of land titles, or other officer, with whom, according to the law of a province, title to land is registered; (q) Registry of Deeds or other words descriptive of the office of a registrar of deeds, includes the land titles office, or other office in which, according to the law of a province, title to land is registered; (r) settlement area means an area of land in any part of Canada, so designated, and defined as this Act requires by the Board, within which the Board exercises or proposes to exercise, its power of compulsorily purchasing lands; (s) settler to mean male member only of certain military forces means a person who at any time during the war has been therein engaged on active service in a military force (i) of Canada and has served out of Canada; or wherever he may have served, is, by reason of disability incurred or aggravated as the result of such service, in receipt of a pension, or (ii) of His Majesty or of any of His Majesty’s Allies and, being ordinarily resident in Canada when he enlisted in or otherwise became a member of such force, has served thereafter out of Canada, in a theatre of actual war, or (iii) of His Majesty or of any British Dominion or Colony and has served out of the country wherein he enlisted or otherwise became a member of such force in a theatre of actual war; and has been otherwise than dishonourably discharged from such force, or has been permitted honourably to resign or retire therefrom, or, without fault on his part, has been dispensed from further service therein; and the widow of any person who died on active service and who, but for his death,