Bill 27 (Legislature 4, Session 4)

L4 S4 10066

Alberta — Bills

BILL No. 27 of 1921.

An Act to amend The Small Debts Act. (Assented to :• 1921.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and c:onsent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: The Small Debts Act, being

chapter of the Statutes of Alberta, 1918, is hereby amended as follows:

Section 3: By repealing the same and substituting the following in lieu thereof: "3. Every justice of the peace shall have jurisdiction in the judicial district in which he resides over any action of debt, whether payable in money or otherwine, where the amount claimed does not exceed fifty dollars, and over any such action where the amount originally claimed exceeds fifty dollars, but has been reduced b.v payment or abandonment to that sum; such action not being one to which the King is a party or in which the. title to land is involved. "

(2) Every police magistrate shall have jurisdiction in the judicial district in whirh he resides over any action of debt, whether payable in money or otherwise, where the amount. claimed does not exceed one hundred dollars, and over any such action where the amount originally claimed exceeds one hundred dollars, but has been reduced by payment or abandonment to that sum; such action not being one to which the King is a party or in which the title to land is involved : "Provided that a justice, whether police magistrate or justice of the peace who resides within a subdistriet of any judicial district shall have jurisdiction under this Act only within the limits of such subdistrict and in any judicial district containing a subdistrict the jurisdiction of any justice (other than a District Court judge) not residing within such subdistrict shall extend only to such portions of the judicial district as are not contained within the limits of such subdistrict: "Provided further, that no justice, whether polic:e magis trate or justice of the peace, shall try any action under this Act unless the defendant or some one of the defendants reBideB or carrieB on buBineBB in the judicial distric1; or sub district, as the case may be, in which the justice (if he be other than a District Court judge) resides.

"Provided further, that no action shall be brought against a city, town, village, municipal district or local improvement district under the provisions of this Act." No. 27. FOURTH SESSION FOURTH LEGISLATURE GEORGE V BILL

An Act to amend The Small Debts Act. Received and read the First time ................. . Second time . . . . . . . . . ..... . Third time ................ . HoN. J. R. BoYLE. EDMQNTON: J. W. JEFFERY, Knm's PmNTER. · A.D. 1921 Title: 1921 (4th, 4th) Bill 27,

An Act to amend The Small Debts Act

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L4 S4 10066
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	L4 S4 10066
Language	en
Format	json
Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	905d9d07d079537214b4029c50c0f821467ba3f4

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