Bill 201 — -- -" R '1\ I Third Session, 17Th Legislature, 23 Eli~Lpetb Ii the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Bill 201 An Act To Provide For the Protection of News Sources (Legislature 17, Session 3)

L17 S3 5349

Alberta — Bills

1974 Bill 201 -- -" r '1\ I Third Session, 17th Legislature, 23 Eli~lpetb II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 201

An Act to Provide for the Protection of News Sources MR. LUDWIG First Reading ... Second Reading T'hi:rd R:eadin:g ............... . Printed by L. S. WALL, Queen's Printer for the Province of Alberta, EDMONTON Bill 201 Mr. Ludwig BILL 201 1974

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THiE PROTECTION OF NEWS SOURCES (Assented to , 1974) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, ena0ts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as The News Sources Protection Act. 2. In this Act (a) "court" means (

i) any court of competent jurisdiction and ,includes a judge, arbitrator, umpire, commissioner, magistrate, justice of the peace, or other officer or person having by law or by the consent of parties authority to hear, receive and examine evidence, or (

H) a person or body holding or conducting an in quiry or investigation held or made under authority tQf a law of the Province of Alberta or under the authority of a court, tribunal, commission, board, power or authority or a judicial, adm:inistrative or ministerial official, or ( iii) a person or body holding or eond ucting any other proceeding or matter whatsoever coming within the legislative authodty of the Legisla ture of the Province of Alberta, or :within the prerogative of the Lieutenant Governor in CtQuncil; (b) "journalist" means an employee or self-employed member of the news or editorial staff of a news paper; (c) "reporter" means an employee or self:'employed member of a newspaper, or a news media, whose purpose is the gathering and reporting of public news; (d) "newspaper" means any paper, magazine or peri odical containing public news, intelligence _or re ports of events or any remarks or observations Explanatory Notes thereof printed for sale and published periodically or in parts or numbers at intervals not exceeding thirty-one days between the publkation of any two such papers, parts or numbers; (e) "news media" means any broadcasting station in cluding radio and television, established and oper ated under a licence; in which the transmissions are intended for direct reception by the public. 3.

A journalist, reporter or anyone engaged in the ac tivity 'Of gathering and disseminwting public news, inteUi gence, or reports of events, Ithat is given or communicated to, or seen, heard, or otherwise obtained by him and pub lished or broadcast in whole or in part ,in or by a newspaper or any news media, is not 'Compellable to disclose or produce to a court the source of his information. 4. This Act shall bind the Crown and shall have applica tion notwithstanding the provision of any law of Alberta contrary hereto 'Or .inconsistent herewith. 5.

This Act comes into force on the day upon which it is assented to. 2 Title: 1974 (17th, 3rd) Bill 201,

An Act to Provide for the Protection of News Sources

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L17 S3 5349
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