Bill No. 53 of 1933. A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE LICENSING OF TRACK BUYERS. NOTE. This Bill provides for the licensing of track buyers. The annual fee payable for a license is $50.00 where the license is in respect of one shipping point, and where the license is in respect of more than one shipping point, $50.00 and an additional $25.00 for each shipping point in excess of one. R. ANDREW SMITH, Leg.islative Counsel. (This note does not form any part of the Bill .and is offered merely as a partial explanation of some of its provisions.)

BILL No. 5.3 of 1933.

An Act to provide for the Licensing of Track Buyers. (Assented to , 1933.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follo'ws: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Track Buyers' Licensing Act." 2. In this Act, unless the context requires a contrary meaning- (a) "Grain" means and includes all kinds and varieties of grain the inspection of which is provided for by The Canada Grain Act, being

chapter 5 of the Statutes of Canada, 1930; (b) "Minister" means the member of the Executive Council for the time being charged with the admin­ istration of this Act; (c) "Shipping point" means any depot, station, siding or other place upon a railway at which any car lot of grain acquired by a track buyer is loaded; (d) "Track buyer" means any person who is required by The Canada Grain Act to be the holder of a track buyer's license or a primary grain dealer's license. 3.

Every track buyer and every employee of a track buyer who transacts the business of a track buyer at any one or more shipping points in the Province shall be the holder of a valid and subsisting license issued to him pur­ suant to this Act, authorizing him so to do at the shipping point or shipping points mentioned in the said license: Provided that no license under this Act shall be required of a track buyer in respect of a shipping point at which the track buyer is the manager or operator of a licensed coun­ try elevator under the provisions of The Canada Gt'ain Act. 4.

All licenses under this Act shall be issued by the Min­ ister or by such person or persons as he may from time to time appoint, shall be in such form as the Minister may from time to time prescribe, and shall specify the shipping points at which the licensee is thereby licensed to transact business as a track buyer.

2 5. Every application for a license under this Act shall be in writing, shall be in such form. as the Minister may from time to time prescribe, shall set forth the shipping points at which the applicant desires to transact business as a track buyer, and shall contain such other particulars as may be required by the Minister. 6. Every license issued under this Act shall expire on the thirty-first day of August following the date of its issuance. 7. The fee payable upon the issuance of a license shall be as follows: For a license to transact business at one shipping point, $50.00.

For a license to transact business at two or more shipping points, the sum of $50.00 and additionally for each shipping point in excess of one, $25.00. 8. In case the licensee is an employee of a track buyer and his license has been taken out and paid for by the em­ ployer, the licensee shall, immediately upon the cessation of his employment, forthwith return his license to the Minis­ ter and thereupon the license may be reissued to any other employee nominated by the employer. 9.

Any person who transacts any of the business of a track buyer at any shipping point in the Province without being the holder of a valid and subsisting license, or being the holder of a license transacts any of the business of a track buyer at any shipping point in the Province other than a shipping point specified in the license as a shipping point at which he is licensed to transact business shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on

summary conviction therefor to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred dollars and costs, and in default of payment forthwith, to a term of imprisonment of not more than ninety days. 10. Nothing in this Act contained shall affect any obli­ gation on the part of any person licensed under this Act to comply with any of the provisions of The Cc~nadCL Grain Act.

THIRD SESSION SEVENTH LEGISLATURE 23 GEORGE V 1933 BILL

An Act to provide for the Licensing of Track Buyers Recei ved and read the First time .............................................................. . Second time ....... . Third time ........................................................... . HON. MR. BROWNLEE. EDMONTON: w. D. McLEAN, Kl"G'S PRINTEII 1933 Title: 1933 (7th, 3rd) Bill 53,

An Act to provide for the Licensing of Track Buyers