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Part 1 — The Public Service Generally Public Service Commission

24 Certain dealings by employees prohibited

Current to 2025-08-27 · Official PDF

(1) Unless authorized by general regulations or particular orders
made by the Lieutenant Governor in Council,
(a) no employee
(i) shall be a bidder at a sale of Crown land, or
(ii) shall acquire an estate or interest in Crown land,
RSA 2000

either directly or indirectly, in the employee's own name or
through another person or in the name of a person in trust
for the employee,
(b) no employee shall
(i) be a shareholder or director of a corporation or company
that has an estate or interest in Crown land, or
(ii) have directly or indirec tly an interest in shares of a
company that has an estate or interest in Crown land in
the employee's own name or through another person or
in the name of a person in trust for the employee,
unless the shares of the comp any are regularly quoted and
dealt in on a recognized stock exchange, and
(c) no employee shall take or receive for the employee's own
use a fee or emolument for negotiating or transacting any
business connected with the employee's official duties.
(2) An employee who wilfully contravenes this section is guilty of
an offence and liable to a fine of not more than $500, and in default
of payment to a term of imprisonment for not more than 3 months.
(3) An estate or interest in Crown land acquired in contravention
of this section is void.
(4) In this section, "Crown land" means all land, mines and
minerals belonging to the Crown in right of Alberta and any estate
or interest in the land, mines and minerals, including, without
limitation,
(a) an agreement or mineral c laim within the meaning of the
Mines and Minerals Act,
(b) a disposition within the meaning of the Public Lands Act,
and
(c) a lease, licence or permit under the Forests Act.
(5) Repealed 2009 cA-31.7 s17.
RSA 2000 cP-42 s24;2009 cA-31.7 s17