(3) A grant may be effected by any instrument by which an interest in real property may be granted by a private person under the laws in force in the province in which the federal real property is situated.
39. (1) The Navigable Waters Protection Act does not apply to works, within the meaning of that Act, that are undertaken within the limits of a port in respect of which the letters patent of a port authority are issued.
(2) Any work that is undertaken in accordance with this Part is a lawful work, within the meaning of the Navigable Waters Protection Act, even though it interferes with navigation.
40. (1) A port authority shall, within six months after the issuance of its letters patent, develop a detailed land-use plan that contains objectives and policies for the physical development of the real property that it manages, holds or occupies and that takes into account relevant social, economic and environmental matters.
(2) The land-use plan may
(a) prohibit the use of some or all of the real property for, or except for, certain purposes;
(b) prohibit the erecting of structures or certain types of structures; and
(c) regulate the type of structures that may be erected.
(3) No person shall use real property or erect or alter a structure except in accordance with the land-use plan.
(4) A land-use plan shall not have the effect of preventing
(a) the use of any property existing on the day on which the land-use plan comes into force for the purpose for which it was used on that day, so long as it continues to be used for that purpose; or
(b) the erecting or alteration of a structure that was authorized before the day on which the land-use plan comes into force if the erecting or alteration is carried out in accordance with the authorization.
(5) A port authority shall, at least sixty days before the coming into force of a land-use plan, have notice of the plan published in a major newspaper published or distributed in the place where the port is situated.
(6) The notice shall include information as to where a copy of the plan, including any related documents necessary to understand it, may be obtained and an invitation to any interested person to make representations to the port authority with respect to the proposed plan within those sixty days and to attend a public meeting at a specified time and place.
(7) After the port authority considers any representations made by interested persons with respect to a proposed plan, it may adopt the plan.
(8) The port authority shall have notice of each land-use plan that it adopts, together with notice of the place at which a copy of the plan may be obtained, published in a major newspaper published or distributed in the place where the port is situated.
(9) A port authority need not comply with subsections (5) to (8) in respect of a proposed
land-use plan that
(a) has previously been published pursuant to subsection (5), whether or not it has been changed as a result of representations made pursuant to subsection (6); or
(b) makes no substantive change to an existing plan.
(10) Land-use plans are not regulations within the meaning of the Statutory Instruments Act.
