Bill 239 — Third Session, 21St Legislature, 37 Elizabeth Ii the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Bill 239 An Act To Amend the Remembrance Day Act (Legislature 21, Session 3)

L21 S3 3014

Alberta — Bills

1988 BILL 239 Third Session, 21st Legislature, 37 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 239

AN ACT TO AMEND THE REMEMBRANCE DAY ACT MR. hawkesworth First Reading Second Reading Committee of the Whole Third Reading Royal Assent Title: 1988 (21st, 3rd) Bill 239,

An Act to Amend the Remembrance Day Act

Bill 239 Mr. Hawkesworth BILL 239 1988

AN ACT TO AMEND THE REMEMBRANCE DAY ACT (Assented to , 1988) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1 The Remembrance Day Act is amended by this Act. 2 The following is added after

section 1: 2(1) No (

a) corporation as defined in the Business Corporations Act, (

b) company as defined in the Companies Act, or (

c) department or agency of the Crown in right of Alberta or of any municipality or local authority in Alberta, shall carry on business or offer services or require the atten dance of employees between the hours of 6 a.m. and 12 noon on Remembrance Day.

(2) This

section does not apply to (

a) the operation of hospitals or work for the relief of sickness or suffering, (

b) the sale of drugs, medicines and surgical appliances by retail, 1

Explanatory Notes 1 The Bill will amend

chapter R-14.5 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1984. 2 New sections will limit commercial activity on Remembrance Day to a minimum. 1

(

c) the operation of hotels and restaurants, (

d) the work of policemen, firemen, furnace tenders, watchmen or janitors, (

e) the effecting of emergency repairs, (

f) the operation of a continuously operating plant, except where the established cycle of operations would ordinarily begin or end on Remembrance Day, (

g) conveying of goods or travellers on railways or street railways or in other public conveyances, and work incidental thereto, (

h) the caring for perishable products and live animals, (

i) the sale of bread, milk or motor fuel and oil, (

j) the operation of a dairy, a milk processing plant, or a dairy manufacturing plant as defined in the Dairy Industry Act, or to which that Act applies, and the distribution of its products directly to the consumer, (

k) the operation of a bakery for the baking of products for sale that day or on the next succeeding day, (

l) the conducting, in meat packing plants, of those processes which cannot be postponed without serious deterioration of meat quality, and the carrying on of such other operations as are necessary in receiving, paying for, and shipping livestock and meat products, (

m) any work without which electric current, heat, gas, light or water cannot be continuously supplied to persons who normally use them, (

n) work incidental to the conducting of commemorative or religious services, 2

(

o) the operation of the office of a portfolio manager who is registered as such under the Securities Act and who, in the conduct of his business, on behalf of his clients, has to transact business on Remembrance Day on stock exchanges outside the Province, (

p) the publication of newspapers including all work necessary for, or incidental to, preparation, printing and distribution, and (

q) the completion, after 6 a.m. on Remembrance Day, of a regular shift or tour of duty commenced on the previous day.

(3) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regula tions exempting any person or class of persons from the provisions of this section. 3 This Act binds the Crown. 4 Every person who contravenes

section 1 or 2 is guilty of an offence. 3 This Act comes into force on Proclamation. 3

3 Coming into force. 3 Title: 1988 (21st, 3rd) Bill 239,

An Act to Amend the Remembrance Day Act

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