Bill 123 — A Bill To Amend the Mothers' Allowance Act (Legislature 13, Session 3)

L13 S3 6359

Alberta — Bills

No. 123 3rd Session, 13th Legislature, Alberta 5 Elizabeth II, 1957 BILL 123 A Bill to amend The Mothers' Allowance Act HoN. MR. JoRGENSON EDMONTON, ALBERTA Printed by A. SHNITKA, Printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, 1957

Explanatory Note 2. This amendment will extend the benefits of this Act to wives whose husbands are in mental or tuberculosis hospitals for any period longer than one month.

Section 4, subsection (1) now reads: ''4.

(1) A woman "(

a) who Is a widow, or the wife of a person committed to a hospital and an Inmate thereof under The Mental Diseases Act, "(

b) whose late husband or husband was a resident of the Province at the time of his death, at the time of his entering the hos pital, or at the time of his desertion of his wife, and "(

c) who Is unable to take proper care of a child or children under the age of sixteen, and In her custody, may by herself or through any other person on her behalf apply for mothers' allowance under this Act to an Inspector of the municipality In which her husband had his home at the time of his death or com mittal or of the desertion by him of his wife.". 3. The benefits provided under this

section are being similarly extended; subsections (2) and (3) read as follows: "

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of

section 4 as to age, the pay menta under this Act may be made to a. widow, or to the wife of a person committed to a hospital and an lnma.te thereof under the provisions of The Mental Diseases Act, with respect to a. child of the age of sixteen or seventeen years so long as the child Is attending scl;lool regularly and making satisfactory progress . "

(8) A widow, or the wife of a. person committed to a hospital and an Inmate thereof under The Mental Diseases Act, having In her custody a child or children of the age of sixteen or seventeen years may make an application for assistance with resnect to any such child and this

section and sections 4 and 5 apply thereto mutatis mutandis." 4. This amendement will authorize the increasing of the addi tional allowance under this Act from the maximum of ten dollars monthly to thirty dollars monthly.

Section 7 presently reads: "7.

(1) The Minister out or the mone)·s appropriated by the Legisla ture for the purpose may pay to each woman who Is receiving or entitled to a mother's allowance under this Act an additional allow ance not In excess of ten dollars per month. "

(2) Notwithstanding

section 11 no municipality Is liable to the Province for any portion of the additional allowance paid pursuant to this section.".

BILL No. 123 of 1957

An Act to amend The Mothers' Allowance Act (Assented to , 1957) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows : 1. The Mothe1·s' Allowance Act, being

chapter 208 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1955, is hereby amended.

Section 4, subsection (1) is amended by striking out clause (

a) and by substituting the following: "(

a) who is a widow, or is a wife whose husband is a patient in a hospital under The Mental Dismses Act for a continuous period of one month or longer, or is a wife whose husband is a patient in a sanatorium under The Tuberculosis Act for a continuous period of one month or longer.".

Section 6 is amended (

a) as to subsection (2) by striking out the words "the wife of a person committed to a hospital and an inmate thereof under the provisions of The Menal Diseases Act" and by substituting the words "a wife whose husband is a patient in a hospital un der The Mental Diseases Act, or in a sanatorium under The TubeTculosis Act, and has been in such hospital or sanatorium for a continuous period of one month or longer", (

b) as to subsection (3) by striking out the words "the wife of a person committed to a hospital and an inmate thereof under "The Mental Disease'S Act" and by substituting the words "a wife whose hus band is a patient in a hospital under The Mental Diseases Act, or in a sanatorium under The TubeT culosis Act, and has been in such hospital or sana torium for a continuous period of one month or longer,".

Section 7, subsection (1) is amended by striking out the word "ten" and by substituting the word "thirty". 5. This Act comes into force on the day upon which the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1955, come into force.

-No. 128 THIRD SESSION THIRTEENTH LEGISLAruRE 5 ELIZABETH II 1957 BILL

An Act to amend The Mothers' Allowance Act Received and read the First time ...................... . Second time .... Third time ......................................... . HoN. MR. JoRGENSON • Title: 1957 (13th, 3rd) Bill 123,

An Act to amend The Mothers' Allowance Act

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