Bill 88 (Legislature 5, Session 6)

L5 S6 9394

Alberta — Bills

BILL No. 88 of 1926.

An Act respecting Stock Yards. HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of " the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Stock Yards Act." 2.

In this Act and in any regulation made hereunder, unless the context otherwise requires- (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) "Commission merchant" shall mean any person, partnership or corporation, in Canada, engaged in the business of buying or selling- live stock for a commission; . ' "Co-operative association" shall mean any asso ciation of persons, either incorporated, or unincor- porated who are so associated for the purpose of marketing live stock by any customary or reason able method of co-operative marketing; "Live stock" shall mean meat cattle, sheep, swine and poultry; " "Minister" shall mean the Minister of Agriculture; "Stock yards" shall mean any area 'of Jand, used for a public market for purchasing and selling live stock, with the buildings, fences, gates, chutes, weigh scales and other equipment, sItuated thereon and used in connection therewith; (f), "Live stock exchange" shall mean an organization composed of persons engaged in the business of buying and selling Jive stock, either directly or in directly through a commission merchant; 3.

The Minister shall have power, with the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council to mal.<:e regulations (a.) governing the conduct of live stock exchanges and the issue of licenses to such exchanges; (

b) prescribing the persons who are to be entitled to do business at stock yards; (

c) providing for the issue of licenses to commission merchants and the giving of security by. such mer- chants'; , (

d) providing. for the issue of licences to co-operative associations an,d prescribing the conditions upon which and the method in which any such associ~\ tion shall be entitled to do business at a stock-yard;

2 and the terms upon which any such association shall be entitled to become a member of and exercise the rights of membership in a live stock exchange j (

e) providing for the issue Of licenses to owners, lessees, occupiers or operators of stock yards j (

f) providing for the construction, equipment and in spection of such stock yards; (

g) approving of by-laws made by exchanges; or (

h) prescribing by-laws to be complied with by such exchanges; (

i) prescribing the fees to be charged in stock yards; (

j) providing for the appointment of inspectors of live stock, live stock yards and live stock exchanges, and any other officers that may be required to carry out the regulations made under the provisions of this Act; (Ie) prescribing 'the conditions upon which the operation of stock yards may be begun or upon the breach of which they may be closed; (

l) providing for the grading of Ii ve stock: Provided, however, that the grading of hogs, as established by regulations made under The Live Stock and Live Stock Products Act, 1922, of the Dominion of Canada shall also be the grading es tablished under this Act; (

m) providing for the inspection, branding and market ing of live stock j (

n) prescribing the kind or description of live stock, which may be offered for sale at stock yards j (0) which are calculated to ensure the fair conduct of live stock exchanges and co-operative associations, or on the part of commission merchants, or owners, lessees, occupiers or operators of stock yards. 4. Any person violating any provision of any regulation made under the provisions of this Act shall be liable on sum mary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both fine and imprisonment. 5.

Any person assaulting, obstructing or interfering with any inspector or officer in the performance of any duty delegated to him by regulations made under the provisions of this Act or refusing to allow any inspector or officer to enter any building or other premises, which by virtue of the said regulations, he is entitled to enter, shall be liable on

summary conviction. to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or for both fine and imprisonment. 6.-

(1) All such regulations shall be laid upon the table of the Legislative Assembly within the first week of the Session next held after the making of such regulations.

(2) All such regulations when made, shall, unless and until disallowed by the Legislative Assembly at its session next held after the making of the same, have the same force and effect as if they were set out at length in the Act. 7. The Live Stock and Live Stock Products Act (Al berta), being

chapter 12 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1922, is hereby repealed.

No. 88. SIXTH SESSION FIFTH LEGISLATURE 17 GEORGE V 1926 BILL

An Act respecting Stock Yards. Received and read the First time ................ . Second time .................. . Third time ................... . HON. MR. HOADLEY. EDMONTON: W. D. McLEAN. ACTING KING'S PRINT .. " A,D. UU, Title: 1926 (5th, 6th) Bill 88,

An Act respecting Stock Yards

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L5 S6 9394
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	L5 S6 9394
Language	en
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