1976 Bill Second Session, 18th Legislature, 25 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL THE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION AMENDMENT ACT, 1976 THE MINISTER OF SOCIAL SERVICES AND COMMUNITY HEALTH First Reading ............................. . Second Reading Third Reading ..... Printed by the Queen's Printer for the Province of Alberta, EDMONTON Bill BILL 34 THE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION AMENDMENT ACT, 1976 (Assented to , 1976) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legi,slative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Pharmaceutical Association Act is hereby amended.

Section 2, clause (j), subclause (i), paragraph (B), is amende.d by striking out the words "prior to July 1, 1976" and by substituting the words "prior to the effective date prescribed by regulation under

section 2.1,". 3. The following

section is added after

section 2: 2.1. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may by regula­ tion prescribe a date as the effective date for the purposes of

section 2, clause (j), subclause (i), paragraph (B). . 4. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it 1,8 assente.d to. Explanatory Notes I. This Bill will amend

chapter of the Revised Statutes of Alberta 1970.

Section 2 (

j) presently reads: (j) "proprietary medicine" means (

i) a proprietary or patent medicine that is (

A) registered under the Proprietary or Patent Medicine Act (Can­ ada), and (

B) prior to July 1, 1976, put up in a package or bottle and labelled, or (ii) a proprietary medicine within the meaning from time to time assigned to that expression by regulations made under the Food and Drug Act (Canada); The reference to July 1, 1976 was intended to coincide with the proposed effective date of the repeal of the Proprietary and Patent Medicines Act (Canada). Since the federal Government has indi­ cated that the repeal of that Act will be postponed to a later date, the amendment to the definition and the addition of

section 2.1 will enable the Lieutenant Governor in Council to specify the effective date when the repeal date of the federal Act is definite. 3. See the note to

section of this Bill. Title: 1976 (18th, 2nd) Bill 34, The Pharmaceutical Association Amendment Act, 1976