Bill 54 — A Bill To Amend the Disabled Persons' Pensions Act (Legislature 13, Session 2)

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Alberta — Bills

No. 54 2nd Session, 13th Legislature, Alberta 4 Elizabeth II, 1956 BILL 54 A Bill to amend The Disabled Persons' Pensions Act HON. MR. JORGENSON EDMONTON. ALBERTA Printed by A. SHNITKA, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty 19&1

Explanatory Notes :a. (

a) The residence requirement for eligibility for a pension under this Act will be reduced to a minimum of five years' con tinuous residence immediately before commencement of the pen sion and a total of ten years' residence altogether. (

b) A recipient of an allowance under the Disabled Persons Act (Canada) will be disqualified from receiving a pension under this Act.

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 payments to him "(!) has attained the age of eighteen y('ars, and "(II) baa resided In Alberta for the ten years Immediately pre ceding the date on which the application for a pension Is made, and "(

b) who Is not, "(!) for the purposes of health and welfare services, the res ponsibility 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, "(

C) a pension unc!er The Old Age Security Act (Canada), "(0) an allowance under The Mothers' Allowance Act, "(

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

c) who Is "(!) unmarried and hla Income, Inclusive 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."

Part II will relate the amendments to the consolidation and revision.

BILL No. 54 of 1956

An Act to amend The Disabled Persons' Pensions Act (Assented to , 1956) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows :

PART I 1. The Disabled Persons' Pensions Act, being

chapter 33 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1953, is hereby amended.

Section 3 is amended (

a) as to clause (

a) by striking out subclause (ii) and by substituting the following: "(ii) has resided in Alberta continuously for at least the five years immediately preceding the pro posed commencement date of payments to him and for an aggregate period of at least ten years,", (

b) as to subclause (ii) of clause (b) (

i) by striking out the word "and" where it occurs in paragraph (

E) and by substituting the word "or", (ii) by adding immediately after paragraph (

E) the following: "(

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

PART II 3. The Disabled Pe1'sons' Pensions Act, being

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

Section 3 is amended (

a) as to clause (

a) by striking out subclause (ii) and by substituting the following:

2 "(ii) has resided in Alberta continuously for at least the five years immediately preceding the pro posed commencement date of payments to him and for an aggregate period of at least ten years,", (

b) as to subclause (ii) of clause (b) (

i) by striking out the word "or" where it occurs at the end of paragraph (D), (ii) by adding at the end of paragraph (

E) the word "or", (iii) by striking out the word "and" following para graph (E), (iv) by adding immediately after paragraph (

E) the following: "(

F) an allowance under the Disabled Pe1·sons Act (Canada), and". 5.

Part I and this

section come into force on the day this Act is assented to, and

Part II, except this section, comes into force and

Part I is repealed on the day the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1955, come into force.

No. 54 SECOND SESSION THIRTEENTH LEGISLAnJRE 4 ELIZABETH II 1956 BILL

An Act to amend The Disabled Persons' Pensions Act Received and read the First time ......................................... . Second time ....................................... . Third time ........................................ .. HoN. MR. JoRGENSON Title: 1956 (13th, 2nd) Bill 54,

An Act to amend The Disabled Persons' Pensions Act

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