1989 BILL 223 First Session, 22nd Legislature, 38 Elizabedi II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 223

AN ACT TO AMEND THE EMBLEMS OF ALBERTA ACT MR. R. MOORE First Reading Second Reading , Committee of die Whole Third Reading Royal Assent

Bill 223 Mr. R. Moore BILL 223 1989

AN ACT TO AMEND THE EMBLEMS OF ALBERTA ACT (Assented to , 1989) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1 The Emblems of Alberta Act is amended by this Act. 2

Section 1(

b) is amended by adding the following after sub­ clause (viii): (ix) the official mammal of Alberta.

Explanatory Notes 1 This BUI wUl amend

chapter E-8 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta 1980. 2

Section 1(

b) presently reads: (b) "official emblem" means (

i) the armorial bearings of Alberta; (ii) the Flag of Alberta; (iii) the floral emblem of Alberta; (iv) the Alberta Tartan; (

v) the official bird of Alberta; (vi) the official stone of Alberta; (vii) the official tree of Alberta; (viii) the official colours of Alberta.

3 The foUowing is added after

section 7.2: Mammal of Alberta 7.3 The mammal known scientifically as Ovis canadensis and commonly known as the "Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep" is hereby adopted as the official mammal of Alberta.

3 New

section establishes the Rocky Mountain Big Horn Sheep as the official mammal of Alberta. Title: 1989 (22nd, 1st) Bill 223,

An Act to Amend the Emblems of Alberta Act