1981 BILL 32 Third Session, 19th Legislature, 30 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 32 THE FUEL OIL ADMINISTRATION AMENDMENT ACT, 1981 MR. STEWART First Reading Second Reading Committee of the Whole Third Reading Royal Assent Title: 1981 (19th, 3rd) Bill 32, The Fuel Oil Administration Amendment Act, 1981

Bill 32 Mr. Stewart BILL 32 1981 THE FUEL OIL ADMINISTRATION AMENDMENT ACT, 1981 (Assented to , 1981) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1 The Fuel Oil Administration Act is amended by this Act. 2

Section 1(1)(

h) is amended by striking out “or” at the end of subclause (

v) and by adding the following after subclause (v): (v.1) any operation designated by the regulations as not being a farming operation for the purposes of this clause, or 1

Explanatory Notes 1 This Bill will amend

chapter 16 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1978. 2

Section 1(1)(

h) presently reads: 1(1) In this Act, (h) “farming operations” means the production, or any step in the production, of livestock, grain, forage crops, poultry, furs, honey or any other agricultural product and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes (

i) the personal use of a farm truck owned or operated by a farmer, (ii) the heating of buildings located on a farm and used in connection with the production, or any step in the production, of livestock, grain, forage crops, poultry, furs, honey or any other agricultural product, and the heating of dwellings on that farm, and (iii) the transportation of livestock, grain, forage crops, poul­ try, furs, honey or any other agricultural product by the farmer who produced them, and (iv) any operation designated by the regulations as a farming operation for the purposes of this clause, but does not include (

v) any other type of business operation carried on by a farmer, or (vi) the transportation of livestock, grain, forage crops, poul­ try, furs, honey or any other agricultural product by a processor 1

Section 15 is amended by adding the following after clause (a.1): (a.2) designating any operation as not being a farming operation for the purposes of

section 1(1)(h); In accordance with

section 4(1) of The

Interpretation Act, 1980, this Bill comes into force on the date it re­ ceives Royal Assent. 2

or by any person other than the farmer who produced them, if the transportation is for hire or gain; 3

Section 15 presently reads in part: 15 The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations (

b) designating any operation as a farming operation for the pur­ poses of

section 1(1)(h); 2 Title: 1981 (19th, 3rd) Bill 32, The Fuel Oil Administration Amendment Act, 1981