Bill 85 (Legislature 8, Session 3)

L8 S3 8329

Alberta — Bills

Bill No. 85 of 1937. A BILL TO AMEND THE PIPE LINE ACT. NOTE. This Bill empowers a Company to make surveys of Crown Lands for the purpose of locating the proposed site for a pipe line, and to take and appropriate such Crown Land as may be necessary for the purpose of the pipe line upon such terms and in such manner as the Lieutenant Governor in Council may prescribe.

Section 4 empowers the Lieutenant Governor in Council to pres.cribe the conditions under which a private company may acquire the land necessary for its pipe line where the land is not the property of the Crown, and the compensation to be paid in respect of any land so acquired. R. ANDREW SMITH, Legislative Counsel. (This note does not form any part of the Bill and is offe1'ed merely as a partial explanation of some of its provisions.)

BILL No. 85 of 1937.

An Act to amend The Pipe Line Act. (Assented to ,1937.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This A~t may be cited as "The Pipe Line Act Amend ment Act, 1937." 2. The Pipe Line Act, being

chapter 62 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1925, is hereby amended as to

section 4, by striking out the words "public places" where the same occur therein and by substituting therefor the words "public places or any private property". 3. The said Act is further amended by inserting therein immediately after

section 7 the following new section: "7a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other Act the Company may, for the purposes of its undertaking and subject to the provisions in this Act contained,- "(

a) enter into and upon any Crown lands without pre vious license therefor or into or upon the lands of any person whomsoever lying in the intended route or line of the Company's pipe line and make surveys, examinations or other necessary arrangements on such lands for fixing the site of its pipe line right-of way and works and set out and ascertain such parts of the lands as are necessary and proper for its undertaking; " (

b) upon obtaining such permit and upon such terms and in such manner as the Lieutenant Governor in Council may from time to time prescribe by regula tion, take and appropriate so much of the lands or interest therein of the Crown or other persons as may be necessary for the efficient and economical operation of its said rights." 4. The said Act is further amended as to

section 9 by adding at the end of subsection (1) thereof the following new paragraph: "(

p) prescribing the .conditions under which and the man ner in which any company to whom a permit has been granted shall exercise any right of entry, user or taking in respect of the surface of any land or

2 interest therein which is not the property of sllch company, and the method of ascertaining the amount of any compensation to be paid to the persons having any interest in the surface, the time for payment of the compensation so to be paid and prohibiting the exercise of any such right of entry until such compensation has been paid or until adequate pro vision has been made for the payment of compensa tion by the ,company exercising such right of entry, user or taking." 5. This Act shall ~ome into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

THIRD SESSION EIGHTH LEGISLATURE 1 GEORGE VI 1937 BILL

An Act to amend The Pipe Line Act. Recei ved and read the First time ....................................... . Second time ............... '" ................... . Third time ...................................... .. RON. MR. FALLOW. EDMONTON: A. Shnitka, King's Printer 1937 Title: 1937 (8th, 3rd) Bill 85,

An Act to amend The Pipe Line Act

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Citation	L8 S3 8329
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