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Explanatory Note 2. An additional grant authorized for general health unit services.

Section 16, subsectlOn (1) presently reads: "16.

(1) In every year, out of the moneys appropriated by the Legisla­ ture for the purpose, the Department shall pay to each eligible health unit grants to be calculated as follows: (

a) for general health unit services (1) where the population is less than fifty thousand persons a grant per person of one dollar and forty-five cents less one cent for each one thousand of population, or (

U) where the population is fifty thousand persons or more a grant per person of ninety-five cents, and (

b) for dental services where such services are provided in accord­ ance with the regulations a grant equal to twenty per cent of the grant under clause (a) .... 3. Grants may be made for public health services in national parks.

BILL No. 70 of 1959

An Act to amend The Health Unit Act (Assented to , 1959) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Health Unit Act, being

chapter 139 of the Revised Statutes, is hereby amended.

Section 16 is amended by adding immediately after subsection (1) the following: (la) Each eligible health unit shall be paid an additional grant based on the density of population in the health unit area, in the amount of (

a) twenty-five cents per person where the density is less than one person per square mile, (

b) twenty cents per person where the density is one or more but less than two persons per square mile, (

c) fifteen cents per person where the density is two or more but less than three persons per square mile, (

d) ten cents per person where the density is three or more but less than four persons per square mile, or (

e) five cents per person where the density is four or more but less than five persons per square mile, and the grant shall be deemed to be a grant for general health unit services payable under clause (

a) of subsection (1) in addition to the amount therein specified. 3. The following new heading and

section are added im­ mediately after

section 18: National Parks 18a. Where (a.) the Minister is satisfied that an adequate public health service is being provided within a national park, and (

b) the park authority supplies an annual report to the Minister showing the health work done by the authority and a financial statement showing the cost of the work, the Department may make an annual grant to the park authority, based on the population according to the most recent federal census, at a rate not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per capita. ,4. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

No. 70 FIFTH SESSION THIRTEENTH LEGISLATURE 7 ELIZABETH II 1959 BILL

An Act to amend The Health Unit Act Received and read the First time ........................................ .. Second time ....................................... . Third time. HON. DR. Ross Title: 1959 (13th, 5th) Bill 70,

An Act to amend The Health Unit Act