Bill 64 (Legislature 13, Session 4)

L13 S4 6194

Alberta — Bills

No. 64 4th Session, 13th Legislature, Alberta 6 Elizabeth II, 1958 BILL 64 A Bill to Validate Certain Votes Taken under The Municipal Hospitals Act HON. DR. Ross Printed by L. S. WALL, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, Edmonton, Alberta, 1958

Explanatory Note General. Prior to the 1957 amendment to The Municipal Hos pitals Act. ratepayers and the wives, husbands, parents, and children of ratepayers were entitled to vote on matters requiring the expenditure of money. The 1957 amendment limited the right to vote to ratepayers only, to conform with the standard procedure in municipal matters relating to money by-laws. Inadvertently, five votes were held under the former provisions relating to voting eligibility.

BILL No. 64 of 1958

An Act to Validate Certain Votes Taken under The Municipal Hospitals Act (Assented to , 1958)

WHEREAS The Municipal Hospitals Act was amended by

chapter 59 of the ~t~tutes of Alberta, 1957, changing the class of persons elIgIble to vote on the establishment of hospital schemes and on additional capital expenditures to ratepayers only, as is the case in votes on money by laws in other municipal matters; and

WHEREAS the said amending Act was to come into force with The Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1955, and came into force on the first day of July, 1957; and

WHEREAS after the first day of July, 1957, through inadvertence or error, votes were held in certain munic ipal hospital districts in accordance with provisions of The Municipal Hospitals Act that had been repealed and replaced by the said amending Act and the husbands or wives, fathers, mothers, sons and daughters were per mitted to cast ballots on the said votes; and

WHEREAS each of the said votes was carried by a sub stantial majority and it is deemed expedient to validate the said votes so that the expense and delay of further votes may be avoided: THEREFORE HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The 1957 Municipal Hos pital Votes Validation Act". 2. The polls taken (

a) in the Jasper Municipal Hospital District, Num ber 75 on the third day of July, 1957, and (

b) in the Hinton Municipal Hospital District, Num- ber 76 on the twenty-eighth day of August, 1957, for the purpose of obtaining a ratification or r~j~ction of a hospital scheme as required under The Munw~1?al [ios pitals Act are hereby declared to be ~o?d and valId to ~1l intents and purposes as if all the provIsIOns of. The 1\,[ unu ipal Hospitals Act relating to the persons entItled to vote

2 at a poll to ratify or reject a hospital scheme had been strictly observed and the results of such polls are hereby ratified and confirmed. 3. The votes taken (

a) in the Hanna Municipal Hospital District, Num ber 9 on the sixteenth day of January, 1958, (

b) in the Wainwright Municipal Hospital District, Number 7 on the fourteenth day of September, 1957, and (

c) in the Lloydminster Municipal Hospital District, Number 8 on the twenty-eighth day of September, 1957, for the purpose of obtaining approval of an additional capital expenditure as required under The Municipal Hos pitals Act are hereby declared to be good and valid to all intents and purposes as if all the provisions of The Munic ipal Hospitals Act relating to the persons entitled to vote on the approval of an additional capital expenditure had been strictly observed and the results of such votes are hereby ratified and confirmed. 4. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

FOURTH SESSION THIRTEENTH LEGISLATURE 6 ELIZABETH II 1958 BILL

An Act to Validate Certain Votes Taken under The Municipal Hospitals Act Received and read the First time ............................ . Second time ... Third time ......................................... . HON. DR. Ross Title: 1958 (13th, 4th) Bill 64,

An Act to Validate Certain Votes Taken under The Municipal Hospitals Act

Document details

Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L13 S4 6194
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	L13 S4 6194
Language	en
Format	json
Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	91f06d073dc070db129b157a2e8b1c1bd61b1eab

Source file is stored in the law ingest library (json).