Bill 84 (Legislature 8, Session 8)

L8 S8 8060

Alberta — Bills

Bill No. 84 of 1939. A BILL TO AMEND THE GRAIN BUYERS' LICENSING ACT. NOTE. This Bill makes a number of amendments to The Grain Buyers' Licensing Act. The definition of "grain buyer" in

section 2' is amended so as to include in that definition all persons who carryon or transact the business of buying grain whether the grain so bought is for shipment by railway or in any ·other manner.

Section 7 is amended so as to require the application for a license to be made before loading any grain.

Section 9 is amended by fixing the initial fee for a license at five dollars instead of ten dollars, but requiring the pay ment of an additional fee based on the amount of grain purchased. Other amendments to sections 7 and 9 permit the licensee to carryon the business anywhere in the Province. R. ANDREW SMITH, Legislative Counsel. (This note does not form any part of the Bill and is offered merely as a partial explanation of some of its provisions.)

BILL No. 84 of 1939.,

An Act to Amend The Grain Buyers' Licensing Act. (Assented to , 1939.) 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 Grain Buyers' Licens ing Act Amendment Act, 1939." 2. The Grain Buyers' Licensing Act, being

chapter 11 of the Statutes of Alberta, 1938, is hereby amended as to sec tion 2,- (

a) by striking out paragraph (

e) and by substituting therefor the following: "(e) 'Grain Buyer' means and in,eludes any person who carries on or transacts the business of buying grain, either as a principal or an agent, either for cash or under any form of contract with respect to delivery or payment, but does not include any person who buys grain for seed, feed or otherwise for his own personal use, or the employee of any such person, or any person who is the holder of a subsisting license for flour milling or feed milling issued under The Licensing of Trades and Businesses Act, 1937, who buys grain which is to be milled or used for manufactur ing purposes in the mill or mills of the licensee within the Province of Alberta, or the em ployee of any such person." (

b) by striking out paragraph (

I) and by substituting therefor the following: "(I) 'Shipping point' means any depot, station, siding or any other place upon a railway at which any carlot of grain is loaded by or on behalf of a grain buyer." - 3. The said Act is further amended as to

section 5 by striking out the words "at anyone or more shipping points" where the same occur therein. ~ •. The said Act is further amended as to

section 7 by strIkmg out the words "Every application for a license

2 under this Act", where the same occur therein, and by sub stituting therefor the words "Every application for a license under this Act shall be made before any grain is loaded, and shall be in writing,". 5. The said Act is further amended as to

section 9, (

a) by striking out the words "each specified shipping point" where the same occur in subsection (1) ; (

b) by striking out the words "ten dollars", wherever the same o,ccur in subsection (1), and by substitut ing therefor the words "five dollars"; (

c) by striking out the words "specified shipping point", where the same occur in subsection (1), and by substituting therefor the words "shipping point"; (

d) by striking out subsections (2) and (3) and by substituting therefor the following: "

(2) In addition to the fees above mentioned, the grain buyer shall pay in respect of each one thousand bushels of grain an additional fee which shall be in the case of wheat, fifty cents; in the case of barley, forty-five cents, and in the case of oats, forty cents. "

(3) Every grain buyer, shall on the thirty-first day of November, March and July of each year, file with the Minister, a return verified by Statu tory Declaration, showing the number of bushels of grain and kinds thereof, bought by him in the pre ceding four months of the year and the locations wherein the same was purchased, and shall at the same time, remit the fees payable in respect thereof." 6. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to.

EIGHTH SESSION EIGHTH LEGISLATURE 3 GEORGE VI 1939 BILL

An Act to Amend The Grain Buyers' Licensing Act. Received and read the First time ....................................... . Second time ..................................... . Third time ...................................... .. HON. MR. MANNING. EDMONTON: A. Shnitka, King's Printer Title: 1939 (8th, 8th) Bill 84,

An Act to Amend The Grain Buyers' Licensing Act

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Collection	Alberta — Bills
Citation	L8 S8 8060
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Volume / chapter	L8 S8 8060
Language	en
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