Legal Regulation of Land Relations in the Context of Canadian Legislation

Abstract

The relevance of the study is conditioned by the need to analyse international practices of legal regulation of land matters, in particular on the example of the Canadian experience, to update and further implement Ukrainian legislation. The purpose of the study is to identify the features of the legislative regulation of land relations in Canada, Ukraine, and other countries. The methods used to investigate the selected topic include: dialectical, formalisation, legal, formal and legal, hermeneutic, logical-legal, systemic, structural and functional, axiomatic, induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis. The study identified the basic concepts, terms and phenomena used in the field of land regulation in Canada and other countries; the concept of “land relations” is characterised, the objects and subjects of land relations are defined; an analysis of the legal framework governing land relations in Canada and the peculiarities of such regulation; features of regulation and implementation of land relations in Ukraine and such countries as Great Britain, Germany, France, Australia, and New Zealand are described; the list of regulations is compiled based on which regulation of land relations is carried out. The provisions highlighted in the paper are of practical value primarily for entities whose activities are aimed at regulating and controlling land relations, persons whose rights are directly or indirectly covered by the land sphere and fall under the regulation in this area