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Explanatory Note 2. A board member is not to be an employee of the board in any capacity. 3. This amendment will relate the "first meeting" in any year to that one which first follows the municipal elections, rather than the first meeting in a new year, also the reference to the office of the secretary-treasurer is removed as the reference here suggests that it is a board member's office.

Section 8.(1) reads: "8.

(1) The board, at its first meeting in each year, shall elect one of its number as chairman and appoint a secretary-treasurer.". 4. This amendment will give recognition to the secretary­ treasurer as a staff member and to the unit medical officer. Cf. Public Health Act (RS.A. 19'5'5, c. 2515, s. 32(2» and local medical officers of loca,l boards of health.

Section 9 reads: "9. The board shall (

a) provide the office accommodation and equipment required for the work of the unit, (

b) determine the location of the office or offices for the staff, (

c) appoint the staff, (

d) appoint a member of the staff to be a supervisor of the work of the staff, (

e) provide transportation for the staff, (

f) draft a

schedule of services to be provided by the health unit under the provisions of this Act, and (

g) do all things nece,ssary to administer the health unit and to provide the services contained in the

schedule in accordance with this Act.",

BILL No. 34 of 1960

An Act to amend The Health Unit Act (Assented to , 1960) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Health Unit Act, being

chapter 139 of the Revised Statutes, is hereby amended. 2. Sect.ion 6 is amended by adding immediately after sub­ section (3) the following:

(4) A board shall not employ the services of a board member in any capacity for remuneration or reward. 3 .•

Section 8 is amended by striking out subsection (1) and by substituting the following: 8.

(1) In each year the board shall, at its first meeting following the municipal elections for the contributing coun­ cils,elect one of its members as chairman. ,4.

Section 9 is amended (

a) by renumbering the

section as subsection (1), (

b) by striking out clauses (

c) and (

d) of the re­ numbered subsection (1) and by substituting the following: (

c) appoint a secretary-treasurer and such staff as may be required, (

d) appoint a medical officer for the unit, (

c) by adding immediately after the renumbered sub­ section (1) the following:

(2) The medical officer for the unit is the director of the health unit and shall, in the intervals be­ tween the meetings of the board, exercise the authority and perform the duties of the board with respect to the administration of the health unit.

(3) The board shall appoint a member of the nursing staff of the health unit to be supervisor who shall assume the duties of the medical officer of the unit when the medical officer is not avail­ able and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned to the supervisor by the board or the medical officer.

2 5.

(1) By this amendment all public health ~ants ~o mu~icipal­ ities will be authorized under The Health Umt Act, mcludmg the grants to the major cities of Calg1ary and Edmonton, which pre~­ ently receive grants not under that Act but under The Public Health Act. As a result 'of this change, the grant author.ization provisions in The Public Health Act are repealed. (See sectIOns 34 to 38 of that Act at the end of these notes.) 6. Commencement. Sections 34 to 38 of The Public Health Act (R.S.A. 19'55, c. 25:5) which are being repealed read as follows: "34.

The Minister may pay to the council of a city having a popu­ lation in excess of thirty thousand a grant to assist it to provide public health services for its residents. 35.

(1) The extent of the public health staff employed by the city council in respect of the salaries of which the grant may be calculated is (

a) one medical officer for each seventy-five thousand of population or major portion thereof, (

b) one public health nurse for each twelve thousand of population or major portion thereof, (

c) one sanitary inspector for each thirty thousand of population or major portion thereof, and (

d) one clerk for each thirty thousand of population or major portion thereof.

(2) For t:tJ.e purpose of calculating the grant, the salary of each member of a city public health staff designated in subsection (1) shall be deemed to be the salary recommended by the salary survey com­ mittee of the Province and approved by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

(3) The amount of the grant to the council of the city (

a) shall not exceed sixty per cent of the salaries approved under subsection (2) of those members of the city public health staff designated in subsection (1), and (

b) shall be approved by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

(4) In the calculation of grants the population figures to be used shall be the figures shown on the latest census of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics or on the annual census taken under The Munidpalities Assistance Act and approved by the Department of Municipal Affairs in the calendar year preceding that in which the fiscal year begins. 36. The council of a city may employ a public health staff in excess of that designated in sUibsection (1) of

section 35 and may pay salaries in excess of those approved under subsection (2) of

section 35, but such excess staff and such excess salaries shall not be considered in calculating the amount of the grant. 37.

(1) In addition to the grant authorized by sections 34 and 35, the Minister may aHot to' the council of a city that has a p0'pulation of fifty thousand or over and is providing public health services for its people, a portion of any public health grant from the Government of Canada and available for allotment by him, in order to' assist in the extension of such services as are approved by the Provincial Board and for whic:tJ. no provincial -grant is paid.

(2) The grant allotted shall not exceed sixty per cent of the cost of the extension of the public health services. 38. The Lieutenant G0'vernor in C0'uncil may make such regulations ~: :;:e 37 ~,<?nSidered necessary to carry out the provisions of sections

2 5.

(1) The following

section is added immediately after

section 18a: 18b.

(1) In this

section "city" means a city having a population in excess of one hundred thousand.

(2) Where the Minister is of the opinion that a satis­ factory public health service is being provided within a city and the city supplies to him an annual report showing the public health work undertaken within the city together with a financial statement showing the cost thereof, the Minister may pay, out of the moneys appropriated by the Legislature for the purpose, an annual grant to the city.

(3) A grant payable under this

section shall be based on the population of the city as shown in the latest census of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics or as shown in the annual census taken under The Municipalities Assistance Act and approved by the Department of Municipal Affairs in the calendar year preceding that in which the fiscal year begins.

(4) The grants shall be calculated and paid as follows: (

a) for general public health purposes, at the rate of fifty cents per person resident in the city; (

b) for dental health services, at the rate of ten cents per person resident in the city.

(2) Sections 34 to 38 of The Public Health Act, being

chapter 255 of the Revised Statutes, are hereby repealed. ·6. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

No. 34 FIRST SESSION FOURTEENTH LEGISLATURE 8 ELIZABETH II 1960 BILL

An Act to amend The Health Unit Act Received and read the First time ... Second time. Third time ......................................... . HON. DR. Ross Title: 1960 (14th, 1st) Bill 34,

An Act to amend The Health Unit Act