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RTA Residential Tenancies Act

RTA · Safety Codes Act

Part 5 — Orders, Appeals

56 Enforcement of order

Current to 2025-12-01 · Official PDF

(1) An Administrator or a safety codes officer appointed under
section 33(1) or referred to in section 33(6) and designated by the
Administrator, together with a police officer, a peace officer or any
other person as the safety codes officer considers appropriate, may
enter, at any reasonable time, any premises or place for the purpose
of carrying out an order unless the owner refuses to allow or
interferes with the entry or the carrying out of an order
(a) if a person to whom an order is issued under section 49, 52
or 53 with respect to a subject-matter that is not under the
administration of an accredited municipality or an
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accredited regional services commission does not
commence an appeal of the order within the time set out for
the commencement of the appeal and the order is not carried
out within the time set out in the order, and
(b) if the owner of the land concerned as registered under the
Land Titles Act or, in the case of Metis patented land, the
person registered in the Metis Settlements Land Registry as
owner of the Metis title, provisional Metis title or an
allotment in the land and the persons named by the Minister
under subsection (2) have been given written notice of the
intention to carry out the order.
(2) When an order is carried out under subsection (1), the amount
of the expenses incurred in carrying out the order is a debt due to
the Crown jointly and severally by the persons named by the
Minister prior to the carrying out of the order, but those persons
may only include
(a) the owner of the land concerned as registered under the
Land Titles Act,
(b) in the case of Metis patented land, the person registered in
the Metis Settlements Land Registry as owner of the Metis
title, provisional Metis title or an allotment in the land, and
(c) the persons to whom the order was issued.
(3) The Minister may delegate any or all of the Minister's powers
under this section to the Council.
RSA 2000 cS-1 s56;2015 c10 s29