1967 Bill Fifth Session, 15th Legislature, 15 Elizabeth I! THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL S1

An Act to amend The Alberta Crop Insurance Act THE MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE First Reading Second Reading Third Reading ........................................................... . Printed by L. S. Wall, Queen's Printer, Edmonton BILL S1

An Act to amend The Alberta Crop Insurance Act (Assented to , 1967) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Alberta Crop Insurance Act is hereby amended. 2.

Section is amended by adding the following clause after clause (a1) : (a2) "crop year" means the period from the first day of April in a year until the 31st day of March in the next succeeding year; 3.

Section is amended by striking out subsection (3) and by substituting the following:

(3) Where an insurance premium payable under this Act is not paid in accordance with the requirements pre­ scribed in the regulations, the corporation may, at any time, by notice in writing cancel the contract .to which the premium relates. 4.

Section is amended by striking out subsection (2) and by substituting the following:

(2) An insured person shall pay any premium owing to the corporation in accordance with such terms and condi­ tions as may be prescribed in the regulations. 5.

Section is amended (

a) by adding the following clause after clause (h): (h1) requiring insured persons to submit seeded acreage reports to the corporation under such terms and conditions and in such form as the corporati on directs, (

b) by striking out clause (

j) and by substituting the following (

j) prescribing the terms and conditions of pay­ ment of premiums, including final dates for payment of premiums in respect of any par­ ticular insurable crop, class of insurable crop or class of insurance contract, and the manner in which such premiums may be paid or col­ lected, 6. This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to. Explanatory Notes I. This Bill amends

chapter of the Statutes of Alberta, 1964. 2. "Crop year" defined. 3. This amendment 'allows the corporation to cancel a contract at any time for non-payment of premium. The present

section 8, subsection (3) reads:

(3) The corporation may, by notice in writing, terminate any con­ tract at the end of a crop year if the insured person is in arrears in the payment of the premium payable under the contract. 4. This amendment takes out of the Act a fixed final date for premium payment and requires that premiums be paid as required by regulations. 'This allows for more flexibility in setting final payment dates. 5. New regu}ation making power is given to make provision for seeded acreage reports. Clause (

j) is re-enacted in broadened form so as to allow the regulations to specify final dates for payment of premiums. Title: 1967 (15th, 5th) Bill 51,

An Act to amend The Alberta Crop Insurance Act