182 Recovery of money paid out of General Revenue Fund
Revenue Fund pursuant to section 175 on account of any person,
the amount may be recovered from the person, or if the person is
dead, from the person's estate by action against the person's
personal representatives, in the name of the Registrar.
(2) A certificate signed by an accounting officer, as defined in the
Financial Administration Act, of the payment out of the General
Revenue Fund pursuant to section 175 is sufficient proof of the
debt.
(3) When any amount has been paid out of the General Revenue
Fund pursuant to section 175 on account of any person who has
absconded or who cannot be found within Alberta and who has left
any real or personal estate within Alberta, a judge, on
(a) the application of the Registrar,
(b) production of a certificate described in subsection (2) th at
the amount has been paid in satisfaction of a judgment
against the Registrar as nominal defendant, and
(c) proof of service of the writ in any of the modes provided by
the ordinary procedure in Alberta,
may allow the Registrar to sign judgment against that person
forthwith for the amount paid out of the General Revenue Fund
pursuant to section 175, together with the costs of the application.
(4) The judgment is final, subject only to any right to have the
judgment opened up that may be provided in relation to ordinary
procedure in Alberta in cases of judgment by default.
(5) The judgment shall be signed in like manner as a final
judgment by default in an adverse suit and execution may issue
immediately, and if the person has not left real or personal estate
within Alberta sufficient to satisfy the amount for which execution
has issued, the Registrar may recover that amount, or the
unrecovered balance of it, by information against that person at any
time afterwards in the Court of King's Bench, at the suit of the
Minister of Justice.
RSA 2000 cL-4 s182;2005 c28 s7;2013 c10 s34;AR 217/2022;
2022 c23 s1
RSA 2000