Bill 20 — A Bill To Encourage the Establishment of Preventive Social Service Programs (Legislature 15, Session 3)

L15 S3 1324

Alberta — Bills

No. 20 3rd Session, 15th Legislature, Alberta 14 Elizabeth II BILL 20 A Bill to Encourage the Establishment of Preventive Social Service Programs HON. MR. HALMRAST Printed by L. S. WALL, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, Edmonton, Alberta, 1966

Explanatory Note 1. The purpose of this Bill is to encourage municipalities to sponsor programs aimed at preventing the development of circum stances resulting in people becoming in need of help under The Public Welfare Act. and The Child Welfare Act. 2. Minister defined. 3. Municipalities are authorized to provide preventive social services. 4. Cost sharing by Province when preventive program estab lished.

BILL No. 20 of 19-66

An Act to Encourage the Establishment of Preventive Social Service Programs (Assented to , 1966) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and cons,ent of -the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as foHows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Preventive Social Ser vices Act". 2. In this Act "Minister" means the Minister of Public Welfare. 3. A municipality fa) may provide for the establishment, administration and operation of preventive social service programs within the municipality, (

b) may enter into agreements with other municipal ities to provide for the establishment, administra tion and operation of joint preventive social service programs, and (

c) may appropriate money for the establishment, ad ministration and operations of preventive social service programs. 4. Where a municipality provides for the establishment and operation of preventive social service programs of a nature and in a manner satisfactory to the Minister, the Minister may pay to the municipality (

a) a grant not exceeding eighty percent of the muni cipal expenses in connection with the administra tion of material aid given by the municipality under

Part I of The Public Wel/are Act, and (b) (

c) a grant not exceeding eighty per cent of the muni cipal expenses in connection with the administra tion of preventive social service programs, and a grant not exceeding eighty per cent of the amount paid out by the municipality for the establishment and operation of preventive social service programs.

s. Powers of Minister in connection with municipal preventive programs. 6. Funds for payment of grants. 7. Commencement of Act. 2

5. The Minister may (

a) determine what constitutes a preventive social ser vice program for the purposes of this Act, (

b) determine what items are or are not to be considered expenses of administration for the purposes of sec tion 4, the ll)anner of calculating such expenses and the extent to which grants will be paid in respect of such expenses in any particular case, (

c) enter into such agreements with municipalities as he considers desira.ble with respect to the establish ment and operation 'Of preventive social service pro grams, (

d) prescribe standards of qualification for and stand ards and methods of work to be maintained and adopted by municipal welfare workers and pre ventive social service workers as a condition of the Province paying part of municipal expenses pur suant to

section 4, and (

e) make regulations respecting the establishment, ad ministration and operation of preventive social service programs, governing applications for grants under this Act and respecting any other rna tter necessary to carry out the intent of this Act. 6. The moneys payable to a municipality pursuant to this Act shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the Legislature for that purpose. 7. This Act comes into force on the first day of July, 1966.

No. 20 THIRD SESSION FIFTEENTH LEGISLA JURE 14 ELIZABETH II 1966 BILL

An Act to Encourage the Establishment of Preventive Social Service Programs Received and read the First time ............ . Second time ............ . Third time ........................ . HON. MR. HALMRAST Title: 1966 (15th, 3rd) Bill 20,

An Act to Encourage the Establishment of Preventive Social Service Programs

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L15 S3 1324
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Language	en
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