Housing Nova Scotia Regulations
made under Section 13 of the
Housing Nova Scotia Act
R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 213
O.I.C. 86-925 (effective July 15, 1986), N.S. Reg. 210/1986
amended to O.I.C. 2022-52 (effective March 1, 2022), N.S. Reg. 30/2022
Effective on the date that Section 54 of Chapter 36 of the Acts of 2022, the Housing Supply and Services Act,
is proclaimed, these regulations are repealed by N.S. Reg. 317/2022
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Citation
Individuals with signing authority
Citation
1 These regulations may be cited as the Housing Nova Scotia Regulations.
Individuals with signing authority
1A In all conveyances, contracts, releases, discharges, documents, instruments, agreements
and transfers where Housing Nova Scotia is authorized or required to be a party, the
document may be signed, sealed and delivered by any of the following:
(a) the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing;
(b) the Deputy Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing;
(c) the Associate Deputy Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing;
(d) the person for the time being charged with the execution of the powers and
duties of the office of any of the following:
(i) the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing,
(ii) the Deputy Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing,
(iii) the Associate Deputy Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
2 The certificate of the Corporation’s solicitor of due execution shall be sufficient evidence
of due execution for the registration in any Registry of Deeds of any contract,
conveyance, release, discharge, instrument, agreements, transfer or document without
further proof of the signatures or official character of the party executing the same, and
the solicitor for Housing Nova Scotia shall be the solicitor assigned to the Minister of
Municipal Affairs and Housing by the Attorney General of Nova Scotia.
3 The Certificate shall be in the form following:
PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA
COUNTY OF HALIFAX SS
I, ______________________________, the solicitor for Housing Nova Scotia
do hereby certify that the foregoing _________________________ was signed,
sealed and delivered by or on behalf of Housing Nova Scotia on the _____ day
of __________________, 19___.
________________________________________
A Barrister of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia
and Solicitor of the Department of Justice
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4 The seal of Housing Nova Scotia may be embossed on all conveyances, releases,
discharges, instruments, contracts, agreements, transfers and documents and shall consist
of a circular seal with the following imprint:
Housing Nova Scotia
Incorporated 1986
5 The due execution of documents by Housing Nova Scotia may also be proved in the
usual manner for proof of due execution by witness and affidavit or certification.
6 All regulations made from time to time by the Governor in Council pursuant to Chapter
211 of the Revised Statutes of Nova Scotia, 1989, the Housing Act, respecting mortgage
loans for housing made by the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing shall apply
mutatis mutandis to Housing Nova Scotia and to the lending of money for mortgage loan
purposes by Housing Nova Scotia, effective on, from and after the 1st day of September,
1990.
The
following regulations are not yet in force and are not included in the
current consolidation: