Bill 30 — A Bill To Amend the Disabled Persons' Pensions Act (Legislature 13, Session 3)

L13 S3 6267

Alberta — Bills

No. 30 3rd Session, 13th Legislature, Alberta 5 Elizabeth II, 1957 BILL 30 A Bill to amend The Disabled Persons' Pensions Act HON. MR. JORGENSON EDMONTON, ALBERTA . , , Most Excellent MaJestJ, Printed by A. SHNITKA, Printer to the Queen s 1957

Explanatory Note

Section 3 presently reads as follows: "3. The Minister may provide for the payment of a pension not exceeding the sum of forty dollars a month to a disabled person "(

a) who at the date of the proposed commencement of payment to him "(

i) has attained the age of eighteen years, and "(ii) has resided in Alberta continuous'ly for at least the five years immediately preceding the proposed commencement date of payments to him and for an aggregate period of at least ten years, "(

b) who is not "(i') for the purposes of health and welfare services the responsi bility of the Government of Canada, or "(ii) in receipt of "(

A) assistance under The Old Age Assistance Act, "(

B) an allowance under The Blind Persons Act, "(0) a pension under the Old Age Security Act (Canada), "(

D) an allowance under The Mothers' Allowance Act, "(

E) a pension under The Widows' Pensions Act, or "(

F) an allowance under the Disabled Persons Act (Canada), and "(

c) who is "(

i) unmarried and his income, inclusiye of the pension, is not more than seven hundred and twenty dollars a year, or "(ii) married and living with his spouse and the total income, inclusive of the pension, of the recipient and his spouse is not more than twelve hundred dollars a year." The amendments have the effect of adding two new groups of people to those who may receive this pension.

BILL No. 30 of 1957

An Act to amend The Disabled Persons' Pensions Act (Assented to , 1957) HER MAJ~ST~, by and with the advice and consent of the LegIslative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Disabled Persons' Pensions Act, being

chapter 86 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1955, is hereby amended.

Section 3 is amended (

a) as to clause (b), subclause (ii) by striking out paragraph (D), (

b) as to clause (c) (

i) by adding at the end of subclause (ii) the word "or", (ii) by adding immediately after subclause (ii) the following: "(iii) married and living with his spouse who is blind within the meaning of the Blind Persons Act (Canada), and the total in come, inclusive of the pension, of the recipient and his spouse is not more than thirteen hundred and twenty dollars a year." 3. This Act comes into force on the day upon which the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1955, come into force.

THIRD SESSION THIRTEENTH LEGISLATURE 5 ELIZABETH II 1957 BILL

An Act to amend The Disabled Persons' Pensions Act Received and re~d the First time ........ . Second time ....................................... . Third time ......................................... . HON. MR. JORGENSON Title: 1957 (13th, 3rd) Bill 30,

An Act to amend The Disabled Persons' Pensions Act

Document details

Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L13 S3 6267
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	L13 S3 6267
Language	en
Format	json
Source	PROVINCIAL
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