Bill 13 (Legislature 7, Session 3)

L7 S3 8683

Alberta — Bills

Bill No. 13 of 1933. A BILL TO AMEND THE DOMESTIC ANIMALS (UNORGANIZED TERRITORY) ACT. NOTE. This Bill re-enacts the substance of

section 18a and in cludes therein a new power in the Minister, by order pub lished in The A_lberta Gazette, to declare that in any area included in a pound district established pursuant to this

section a lawful fence shall be of the character described in the section. R. ANDREW SMITH, Legislative Counsel. (This note does not fo'rrn any part of the Bill and ,is offered merely as a partial explanation of sorne of its provisions.)

BILL No. 13 of 1933.

An Act to amend The Domestic Animals (Unorganized Territory) Act. (Assenbed to , 1933.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Domestic Anima.,ls (Un organ,ized TerJ',itory) Act Amendment Act, 1933." 2. The Dom'es#c Animals (Unorganized Te1'1itory) Act, being

chapter 67 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, is hereby amended as to

section 180, thereof by striking out the same and by substituting therefor the following: "18a.-

(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may from time to time by order establish as a pound district any part or parts of the Province except that part of the Province lying to the west of Range 10, west of the Fourth Meridian and between the Red Deer River and the Bow River, either upon the recommendation of the Minister or upon petition, and may provide in such order that domestic animals or any class or classes thereof be prohibited from running at large in the district, and may further provide that domestic animals, or any class or classes thereof, owned by residents of the district, running at large therein, shall not be im pounded unless they have been captured whilst doing damage or after having done damage to or upon land sur rounded by a lawful fence, and that no action for damages shall lie in respect of damage done therein by domestic animals belonging to residents except damage done to or upon land surrounded by a lawful fence.

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(2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may from time to time by order in respect of any pound district or pound district established pursuant to this

section and specified in the order- " (

a) define who are to be considered residents within the meaning of this section; and "(

b) prescribe the number of domestic animals, or' of any class of domestic animals, with respect to which a resident shall be entitled to the privileges accorded by this section. "

(3) Every such order shall be published in The Albe1'tc~ Gaz'ette and shall, upon publication, have the same force and effect as if it had been enacted as a part of this Act.

2 "( 4) The Minister may from time to time by order pub lished in The AlbertCL Gazette declare that in any area included in a pound district established pursuant to this

section a lawful fence for the purposes of this

section shall consist of not less than two barbed wires fastened on up right posts not less than four feet in height above groun.d and not more than fifty feet apart, the lower wire being fastened to the post not less than twelve inches from the point where the post enters the ground, and the higher wire being fasten.ed to the post not less than twenty-four inches above the lower wire, the said wires being fastened to droppers consisting of poles nowhere less than one inch in diameter, the said droppers being placed at regular intervals and not more than sixteen and one-half feet apart. "( 5) This

section shall not apply to entire animals or mischievous animals." 3. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

No. 13. THIRD SESSION SEVENTH LEGISLATURE 23 GEORGE V 1933 BILL

An Act to amend The Domestic Animals (Unorganized Terri tory) Act Received and read the First Second time Third time .. HON. MR. HOADLEY EDMONTON: ,V. D. McLEAN, KING'S PRINTER 1933 Title: 1933 (7th, 3rd) Bill 13,

An Act to amend The Domestic Animals (Unorganized Territory) Act

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Citation	L7 S3 8683
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