Bill 64 — = Fourth Session, 16Th Legislature, 20 Elizabeth Tt the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Bill 64 An Act To Amend the Public Health Act (Legislature 16, Session 4)

L16 S4 4902

Alberta — Bills

1971 Bill 64 = Fourth Session, 16th Legislature, 20 Elizabeth Tt THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 64

An Act to amend The Public Health Act THE MINISTER OF HEALTH First Reading Second Reading Third Reading Printed by L. S. Wall, Queen's Printer, Edmonton

BILL 64 1971

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT (Assented to , 1971) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Public Health Act is hereby amended.

Section 7, subsection (1) is amended (

a) as to the portion thereof preceding clause 1, by adding the words "the pTortection and improvement of health and" before the words "the prevention, mitigation and suppression .of dis,ease", (

b) as to clause 10 by striking out subclause (

i) and by sUbstituting the following: (

i) any premises whevecattle, hors~es, sheep, pigs, goats or other livestock are kept, any premises where fur-bearing animals (as defined in The Wildlife Aet) are kept, and any slaughter houses lOr .other places in which animals are killed and their flesh prepared for sale or for use as food, (

c) by striking out clause 44. 3. The following

section is a,dded after

section 46: 46.1

(1) Where this or an order, rule or regulation under this Act, the Provincial Hoard, an officer of the Department of Health, a local board or officer thereof, a medical officer of health or a municipality or officer thereof (in this

section eaned a Uhealth authority") is required or permitted to serve a noti'ce to any person (in this

section ealled the "respondent") the notice may be serv,ed (

a) personally, or (

b) if the respondent's actual address or 'postal address is known to the health authority, by mail, or (

c) subject to subs'ections (2) and (3), by newspaper advertisement.

Explanatory Notes I. This Bill amends

chapter 294 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta 1970. 2.

Section 7 (1), clauses 10 and 44 presently read: 7.

(1) The Provincial Board may, subject to the approval of the Lieut.enant Go·vernor in Council, make and issue orders, rules and re gulatlOns for the prevention, mitigation and suppression of disease, and may alter or repeal them, and in particular, but without limiting the generality of the foregoing, it may make and issue orders, rules and regulations in respect of the following matters: 10. the loeation, method of construction, furnishing, equipment, maintaini-ng, cleansing, disinfecting, licensing and inspection of (

i) all fox ranches, fur farms, piggeries, slaughter houses and other places in which amimaLs are killed and their flesh prepared for sale or for use as food, (ii) all canneries, fish-houses, smoke-houses and warehouses in which fish are cured, packed or prepared for sale or for use as food, and (iii) all starch factories, dye works and other factories in which bLood, offal, skins, paraffin, tallow, so·ap, fertilizers or gas are worked up; 44. the issue, with regard to sanitary engineering works approved by .the Provincial Board, of certificates for the purpose of affording protection in case of legal action in respect of the situation, construction, maintenance or operation of such works or against their continued use; (

a) The general powers to make regulations is eX'panded so that i1Jhe power will not be construed 'as being related only to disease, inasmuch as many 'Of the specific -clauses in ·section 7 (1) deal more with the public health in Its broadest sence, ,and are not strictly related to disease as such. (

b) clause 10 (

i) is rewritten to be broacler and 'at the same time more specific ,as t'O the places to which the 'regulations can extend. (

c) clause 44 is removed as there are presently no regulations made under it, nor aTe ,any contemplated. 3. Methods of Iserving notice under the Act Or regulations. In some proceedings, particularly those where the unsanitary con dition of premises are concerned, no remedial action can be taken because the owner cannot be located in order to serve him with a notice in the proceedings.

(2) Where the health authof1ity, after having taken reasonable steps for the' purpose, i,s unable to locate the respondent or to determine his actual address, the health authority may seTve the notice by means of newspaper advertisements in aecordanee with subs€'ction (3).

(3) Where the health 'authority s'erves the notice on the respondent by means of newspaper advertis,ements, the notice shall be published in at least two issues, a week apart in a new,spaper of gener lal 'Circulation ' (

a) in the place whe~e the respondent had his last known address aC00rding to the 'records or other information available vo the health authority, and (

b) if the notice relates to the respondent's property or is given in proceedings that r'elate rbo the respon dent's property, :in the place where the property is located. 4. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

2 Title: 1971 (16th, 4th) Bill 64,

An Act to amend The Public Health Act

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