Bill 39 (Legislature 9, Session 3)

L9 S3 7727

Alberta — Bills

Bill No. 39 of 1943. A BILL TO REGULATE THE OPERATION OF SCHOOLS DURING THE PERIOD THAT CANADA IS AT WAR WITH A FOREIGN COUNTRY. NOTE. This Bill makes certain temporary changes in the school terms, as a result of which the schools vacation will begin on July 1st this year and on August 1st in subsequent years, and extend into October so as to enable teachers and stud ents to assist in harvesting and other sea~onal occupations. After this year, the schools will remain open during the month of July.

It is provided that teachers shall be paid their salaries in twelve equal monthly instalments, begin ning with their salary for the month of September. Cer tain holidays are eliminated so as to enable the schools to make up the time lost through the extended summer vaca tion. The Act may be repealed at any time by proclamation. W. S. GRAY, Acting Legislative Counsel. (This note does not form any part of the Bnl but is offered in explanation of its provisions.)

BILL No; 39 of 1943.

An Act to regulate the Operation of Schools during the Period that Canada is at War with a Foreign Country. (Assented to ,1943.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Operation of Schools (War) Act." 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, all words, names and expressions have the same meaning as is expressly or impliedly attached to them in The School Act. 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of The School Act,. The School Grants Act, or any other Act, during the time that Canada is at war with any foreign power, or until such time as this Act is repealed,- (

a) the school year shall, for the purposes of school operation, begin on the first day of March and end on the last day of· February following, and shall be divided into two terms ending the thirty-first day of August, and the last day of February, respec tively, the former to be known as the June term, and the latter as the December term; (

b) the summer vacation in the year 1943 shall extend from the first day of July to the tenth day of Octo ber, both inclusive, and in each and every year thereafter shall extend from the first day of August to the day immediately preceding the second Mon- day in October, both inclusive: . Provided that the Minister may authorize the keeping open of any school which has not been in operation for at least one hundred and eighty days in any two consecutive school terms subsequent to the first day of July, A.D. 1942, during all or any part of the summer vacation; (

c) the four days immediately following Easter Mon day shall not be a vacation period; (

d) the operation of subsections (2) and (3) of

section 152 of The School Act is hereby suspended so long as this Act remains in for,ce;

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e) the Minister may authorize the operation of any school or schools on any subsisting holiday or on any day declared by any proper authority to be a holiday. 4. With the exception of Labour Day, the days in the period from the first of September to the tenth of October, 1943, both inclusive, which would have been teaching days except for the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed to be days on. which the schools were in operation for the pur pose of payment of grant under The School Grants Act. 5.-

(1) On and after the first day of September, 1943, and so long as this Act remains in force, every teacher shall be paid his annual salary in twelve equal nlonthly instal ments, notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (3) of

section 172 of The School Act.

(2) Any teacher under engagement to a board on or before the fifteenth day of September in any year, shall be entitled at the end of that month to one monthly instalment on account of his annual salary computed in accordance with

section 173 of The School Act. 6. Where reference is made in

section 166 of The School Act to "the period between the first day of September and the first day of July", the same shall hereafter be deemed to mean the period between the tenth day of October and the thirty-first day of July, both inclusive. 7. Where the words "June", "July" and "August" or any of them occur in sections 167 and 171 and in Form G in the

Schedule to The School Act, they shall mean "July", "August" and "September" respectively. 8. The operation of the proviso to paragraph (

a) of sub section (3) of

section 215 of The School Act is hereby sus pended as long as this Act remains in force. 9. This Act may be repealed at any time by proclarnation of the Lieutenant Governor in Council. 10. This Act shall come into force on the first day of September, 1943, excepting paragraph (

b) of

section 3, which shall come into force on the first day of July, 1943.

No. 39. THIRD SESSION i NINTH LEGISLATURE 7 GEORGE VI 1943 BILL

An Act to regulat€ the Operation of Schools during th€' Period that Canada is at War with a Foreign Country. Received and read the First time ........................ : ............... . Second time ..................................... . Third time ....................................... . HON. MR. ABERHART. EDMONTON: A. Shnitka, King's Printer 1943 Title: 1943 (9th, 3rd) Bill 39,

An Act to regulate the Operation of Schools during the Period that Canada is at War with a Foreign Country

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