Bill 79 (Legislature 18, Session 3)

L18 S3 5781

Alberta — Bills

1977 BILL 79 Third Session, 18th Legislature, 26 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERT A BILL 79 THE NURSING HOMES AMENDMENT ACT, 1977 (NO.2) \II d' 1'1. .11 I -1'< DR. PAPROSKI First Reading ............................................ . Second Reading .......................................... . Thi rd Readi ng ........................................... . Printed by the Queen's Printer for the Province of Alberta. EDMONTON

Bill 79 Dr. Paproski BILL 79 1977 THE NURSING HOMES AMENDMENT ACT, 1977 (NO.2) (Assented to , 1977) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1 The Nursing Homes Act is amended by this Act. 2

Section 12(2)(a)(

i) is repealed. 3 The following is added after

section 15.1,' 15.2

(1) The operator shall open and maintain a trust account with respect to each contract nursing home operated by him in (

a) a chartered bank, (

b) a treasury branch, 1

Explanatory Notes This Bill will amend

chapter 264 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta 1970. 2

Section 12(2) reads:

(2) Bene.fits may not be paid in respect of a patient where payment for his care in a nursing home (

a) is the responsibility of or 0) the Department of Social Services and Community Health, or (ii) The Workers' Compensation Board, or (iii) the Department of Veterans' Affairs (Canada), or (iv) the Department of National Defence (Canada), or (

v) the Indian and Northern Health Services of the Department of National Health and Welfare (Canada), (

b) is providedfor under any other statute. 3 This

section requires the operator of a contract nursing hOl1'l:e to ~pen and maintain a trust account through which the money of patients 1S to be handled. 1

(

c) a trust company registered under The Trust Companies Act, or (

d) a credit union in the district in which the nursing home is located.

(2) The operator shall deposit in the trust account of a contract nursing home all money given to him at any time for safekeeping by a patient or for the use of a patient in that contract nursing home.

(3) The operator shall not withdraw money standing to the credit of a patient in the trust account without the consent in writing of the patient or his legal representative.

(4) The operator shall not withdraw money from the trust account in an amount greater than that standing to the credit of the patient who authorizes the withdrawal. 4

Section 16 is amended by adding the following after clause (n): (0) prescribing the method by which interest earned from a trust account maintained under

section 15.2 is credited to the benefit of patients in a contract nursing home; (

p) providing for the audit of a trust account maintained under

section 15.2; (

q) limiting the amount of money that may be held in trust for a patient. 5 This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to. 2

4 This

section permits the Lieutenant Governor in Council to make regulations governing trust accounts to be opened under

section 15.2. 2 Title: 1977 (18th, 3rd) Bill 79, The Nursing Homes Amendment Act, 1977 (No. 2)

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Citation	L18 S3 5781
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