Bill 93 (Legislature 6, Session 1)

L6 S1 9262

Alberta — Bills

BILL No. 93 of 1927. The Sexual Sterilization Act. (Assented to , 1927.) HIS 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 Sexual Sterilizatio~'/, Act." J 2. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires (a) "Mental Hospital" shall mean a hospital within the meaning of The Mental Diseases Act; (/J) "Minister" shall mean the Minister of Health. 3.

For the purposes of this Act a board of examiners is hereby created which shall consist of three persons, of whom two shall be medical practitioners to be nominated by the Senate of the University of Alberta and the Council of the College of Physicians respectively, and the other shall be some person other than a medical practitioner and shall be appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. 4. When it is proposed to discharge any inmate of a mental hospital, the Medical Superintendent or other officer in charge thereof may cause such inmate to be examined by the board of examiners. 5.

If upon such examination, the board is unanimously of opinion that the patient might safely be discharged if the danger of procreation with its attendant risk of multiplica tion of the evil by transmission' of the disability to progeny were eliminated, the board may direct in writing such sur gical operation for sexual sterilization of the inmate as may be specified in the written direction and shall appoint some competent surgeon to perform the operation. 6.

Such operation shall not be performed unless the in mate, if in the opinion of the board, he is capable of giving consent, has consented thereto, or where the board is of opinion that the inmate is not capable of giving such con sent, the husband or wife of the ,inmate or the parent or guardian of the inmate if he is unmarried has consented thereto, or where the inmate has no husband, wife, parent or guardian resident in the Province, the Minister has con sented thereto. 7. No surgeon duly directed to perform any such opera tion shall be liable to any action whatsoever by reason of the performance thereof. 8.

This Act shall come into force ...... , ............. . No. 93. FIRST SESSION SIXTH LEGISLATURE ~ 17 GEORGE V HILL The Sexual Sterilization Act. Received and read the First time ................. , .. Second time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Third time ................... . HON. MR. HOADLEY EDMONTON: W. D. McLEAN. ACTING KING'S PRINTER A.D. 1927 Title: 1927 (6th, 1st) Bill 93, The Sexual Sterilization Act

Document details

Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L6 S1 9262
Type	bill
Volume / chapter	L6 S1 9262
Language	en
Format	json
Source	PROVINCIAL
Identifier	d6e513153ca563e01266859fdaa1ac0175b92363

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