1973 BiB] 7 Second Session, 17th Legislature, 21 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 7 The Agricultural Societies Amendment Act, 1973 MR. MILLER (Lloydminster) First Reading .............................. . Second Reading . Third Reading .. Printed by QUEEN'S PRINTER tor the Province ot Alberta, EDMONTON

Bill 7 Mr. Miller (Lloydminster) BILL 7 1973 THE AGRICULTURAL SO'CIETIES AMENDMENT ACT, 1973 (Assented to , 1973) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. The Agricultural So\cieties Act is hereby amended.

Section 3 is ame.nded by adding after clause (

f) the following clause: (

g) by conducting or pr'omoting horse races where authorized to do so by a by-law of the society.

Section 31 is arnended by st,riking out subsection (2) and by substituting therefor the following subsection:

(2) No society, company or board of management shall hold a fair, exhibition or horse race within 50 miles of the place where an existing society, company or board of man­ agement regularly holds a fair or exhibition unless (

a) it has the consent in writing of the Minister, or (

b) it held its fair or exhibition at that place in the year 1948.

Section 35 is struck out and the following

section is sub­ stituted the.re for: 35. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may by order authorize the Minister to ~ake grants to a society, company or board of management In such amounts and for such ac­ tivities as are prescribed in the order.

Explanatory Notes I. Th1s Bill will amend

chapter 8 of the Revised Statutes of Al­ berta 1970. 2. This prOVISIOn will widen the objects of an agricultural society to allow a society to conduct horse races.

Section 31, subsection (2) presently reads:

(2) N'O society, company or board 'o,f management shall hold a fair or exhibition within fifty miles of the place where an existing society, company or board of management regularly holds a fair or exhibition unless (

a) it has the consent in writing of the Minister, or (

b) it held its fair ·or exhibition at that place in the year 1948.

Section 35 presently reads: 35.

(1) A grant may be patd to a society 'Or to a campany or board of management organized for the purpose of holding any of the activi­ ties set out in subsection (2) out of money appropriated by the Legis­ lature for the aid of agricultural societies.

(2) The grants which may be paid for each activity shall be calcula­ ted as' foUo,ws: (

a) for conducting an exhibiHon or fair, a grant based on a per­ centage af the amount actually paid in prizes and not exceeding a maximum sum, which may be fixed by the Lieutenant Gover­ nor in Council and which shall be paid ;in such manner and in accordance with such provisions as the Lieutenant Governor in Oouncil determines; (

b) for ,conducting any activity that has been approved by the Minister, (

i) if the activity is one in which prizes are to be paid, a grant equal to fifty percent of the amount actually paid out for prizes' to competitors in the activity, but not exceeding a maximum sum which shall be set fOT each activity by the Lieutenant Governor in Oouncil, or (ii) if the activity is one in which prizes are not to be paid, a grant equal to fifty per ,cent of the actual expenses incurred in conducting the activity, but not exceeding a maximum sum which shall be set for each activity by the Lieutenant Gov­ ernor in Council.

(3) Notwithstanding subsectio'n (2), no sum shall be paid to a SIOdety in excess of a sum bearing the same rati'O to the moneys appropriated by the Leg.islature for the aid of agricultural societies in general as the sum permit,ted to' be granted to the s'ociety bears to the tatal moneys permitted to be granted to all sacieties.

(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (2), if a society operates so near a provincial border that its activities serve areas outside the Province, the Minister may make grants to the society in prroportion t.o the ratio of the activities of the society that serve the Province.

(5) No s'ociety, company lOr board of management (

a) shall se·cure financial as'sis·tance under subsection (2) for more than f.our activities in any calendar year, or (

b) shall receive more than one grant f·or each type of activity in any calendar year.

(6) In any case where the activities for which grants may be paid under subsection (2), clause (

b) are conducted at the time of the ex­ hibition, they shall be oonSiidered as part of the exhibition and are not eligible for separate grants', unless the Minister otherwise directs.

(7) The Minister may withhold payment of a grant in respect of any prize offered f,or an objeet that in hiosopiniO'n is not calculated to pro­ mote the legitimate obje'cts of an agricultural ,SIOciety.

(8) No incorporated company that permits vO'ting by proxy or allO'ws more -than O'ne vote to be exercised by each shareholder irrespective IOf the number of shares owned ,or controlled by the shareholder is' en­ titled to any grant under this section.

Section 36 is struck out. 6. S e.ction 38, subsection (4) is amended by striking out the figure "$10,000,000" and sUbstituting therefor the figure "$15,000,000". 7. This Act comes into force on the date upon which it is assented to. 2

Section 316 presently reads: 36.

(1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council, if he deems it proper to do -so, may make a special grant to asoclety that has actually held an activity but failed to comply strictly with the requirements of

section 35.

(2) The amount of a special grant shall not exceed the grant to which the society would have been entitled had it complied with the requirements of

section 35. G.

Section 38 makes provision for provincial guarantees of cer­ tain types of borrowing by societies.

Section 38, subsection (4) pre­ sen tly reads as follows: 2

(4) Notwithsrtanding anything in this section, at no time shall the principal amounts guaranteed under ,this

section exceed in the aggre­gate the sum of $10,000,000. Title: 1973 (17th, 2nd) Bill 7, The Agricultural Societies Amendment Act, 1973