1975 Bill 41 (Second Session) First Session, 18th Legislature, 24 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL THE LICENSING OF TRADES AND BUSINESSES AMENDMENT ACT, 1975 THE MINISTER OF CONSUMER AND CORPORATE AFFAIRS First Reading .............................. . Second Reading ............................ . Third Reading ............................. .

Printed by the Queen's Printer for the Province of Alberta, EDMONTON Bill BILL 41 1975 (Second Session) THE LICENSING OF TRADES AND BUSINESSES AMENDMENT ACT, 1975 (Assented to , 1975) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Licensing of Trades and Businesses Act is hereby amended.

Section 5, subsection (1) is amended by adding after clause (j2) the following: (j3) make regulations prohibiting the sale within Al­ berta of bedding or of upholstered or stuffed articles that are not produced or constructed in accordance with the standards (Ii) prescribed by the regulations, or (ii) contained in a code of standards pertaining to bedding or to upholstered or stuffed articles that is published by any government or associ­ ation and declared by the regulations to be in force in whole or in part or with such modifica­ tions as are specified in the regulations, 3.

Section is amended by adding after the words "licence is already" the words "registered under this Act or". 4.

Section lOis struck out. 5. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to. Explanatory Notes I. This Bin will: amend

chapter of ,the Re~i:sed St~a'tutes of Alberta 1970. 2. LPecr.-mits reguLations l to be enacted! governing the Slttated sUlbjed matter. 3.

Section pres1ently reads: 9. No licence shall be issued by a city, town, village, municipal district or county for the carrying on of a business that has been designated as a business to which this Act applies, unless the applicant for the licence is already the holder of a subsisting licence issued pursuant to this Act in respect of that business.

Section 1'0 presently reads: 10.

(1) A person who is required to be registered or to hold a licence in re­ spect of a business or any description or class of business pursuant to an order of the Minister made under this Act and who carries on or engages in the busi­ ness or the description or class of business without being so registered or li­ censed, as the case may be, (

a) shall, if a body corporate, incur a penalty not exceeding $100 for every day during which such person carries on or engages in such business while so unregistered or unlicensed, and (

b) shall, if not a body corporate, incur a penalty not exceeding $25 for every day during which such person carries on or engages in such busi­ ness while so unregistered or unlicensed.

(2) Such penalties are recoverable as a debt due to the Crown by action brought on behalf of the Crown by the Minister in a court of competent jurisdiction. Title: 1975 (18th, 1st) Bill 41, The Licensing of Trades and Businesses Amendment Act, 1975