The Act distinguishes between persons entitled to lien on logs or timber and lien on lumber. Lumber means the products of logs or timber after the same have been sawn or manufactured in a saw mill;(bois d’oeuvre). Every person who performs labour or services in connection with any logs or timber intended to be driven down rivers or streams or hauled directly from the woods or brought by railway to the place of destination, or partly in one way and partly in another, has a lien thereon for the amount due for such labour or services, whether payable as wages or by the piece, and the same has precedence over all other claims or liens thereon, except any lien or claim that the Crown, the Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries Development Board or the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission has upon such logs or timber, for or in respect of any dues or charges, or otherwise, or that any owner of lands has for the stumpage upon such logs or timber, or that any streams improvement company or boom company, or person owning streams improvements or booms has thereon for or in respect of tolls. Where such labour or services are performed under contract whereby it was agreed that the person performing the contract should be paid by the piece and the person performing the contract has employed others to assist him in the undertaking, not exceeding two in number, he has a lien as provided in subsection (1) for the total amount due him under his contract if he has paid in full the person or persons so assisting. Every person who performs labour or services in or about any saw mill has a lien on the lumber sawn or manufactured at the saw mill for the amount due for the labour or services, and the same has precedence over all other liens or claims thereon, except any lien or claims that the Crown, the Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries Development Board or the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission has upon that lumber.
Канада · 1973-01-01