Bill 20 (Legislature 4, Session 4)

L4 S4 10059

Alberta — Bills

BILL No. 20 of 1921.

An Act to amend The Vital ~tatistics Act. (Assented to ' 1921.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1.

Section of The Vital Statistics Act, being

chapter of the Statutes of Alberta, 1916, is repealed, and the following new

section substituted therefor: "3. The Deputy Minister of Health shall be Registrar General.'' 2.

Section of the said Act is amended by striking out subsection thereof, and substituting therefor the fol lowing: "4. The Lieutenant Governor in Council shall appoint a Depll;tY Registrar General.'' 3.

Section of the said Act is amended by adding thereto the following prqviso: "Provided that a registrar shall before issuing a certificate with respect to an infant under one year of age, l:J.Scertain the place of birth, and if the same is within his regjstration district he shall not issue the certificate until the birth is registered." 4.

Section of the said Act is amended by striking out the first proviso thereto, and substituting therefor the following: "1\'ovided that where the death of a person occurs outside Alberta or in a registration district other than that in which the burial is to take place, a certificate of registration of death signed by the proper officer at the place of death, or by the registrar of the district in which the death occurred, as the case may .be, shall be sufficient." 5.

Section of the said Act is amended by striking out therefrom the words "still-born children or those dead at birth shall be registered only as deaths, and notice of the death," and substituting therefor the following: ''In the event of a child being born dead both the birth and death shall be registered and notice of each." 2 6.

Section of the said Act is amended- (

a) By striking out from subsection thereof the words "on payment of twenty-five cen1i;s fpr each search," and substituting therefor the following: "on payment of twenty-five cents for each period of three years or fraction thereof covered by the search''; (

b) By adding after the words "Registrar General" in subsection thereof the words "his deputy or acting deputy." No. 20. FOURTH SESSION FOURTH LEGISLATURE GEORGE V BILL

An Act to amend The Vital Statistics Act. Received and read the First time ................... . Second time ................. . Third time .................. . HoN. C. R. MITCHELL EDMONTON: J. W. JEPF&RT, KINo'sl'luNrEa. A.D. 1921 Title: 1921 (4th, 4th) Bill 20,

An Act to amend The Vital Statistics Act

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L4 S4 10059
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Volume / chapter	L4 S4 10059
Language	en
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Source	PROVINCIAL
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