Bill No. 46 of 1949. A BILL TO AMEND THE CROWN CULTIVATION LEASES ACT. NOTE. This Bill amends The Crown Cultivation Leases Act, being

chapter of the Revised Statutes .of Alberta, 1942.

Section is amended so that it does not apply to leases issued under the authority of The Land Clearing and Break­ ing Proiects Act. It is also amended by the addition of a reference to leases issued under the. provisions .of The Public Lands Act. As a result of the division of the Depart­ ment of Lands and Mines into two new; Departments a new Act, The Public Lands Act, is being enacted in substitution for The Provincial Lands Act, and in the future Crown cultivation leases will be granted under the provisions of The Public Lands Act. The reference to The Social Services Tax Act is also struck out as this Act has been repealed.

Section is struck out and a new

section is substituted. The new

section contains references to the Minister of Lands and Forests by whom this Act will now be administered rather than the Minister of Lands and Mines. The latter part of the

section is also amended. The purpose of the amendment is to make it clear that where part of the share of crop is paid to the Minister as rental and part .of the share of crop is paid to him on account of improvements it is a percentage of the share of crop paid f.or rental only which is given to the municipal or improvement district or school district, as the case may be. The share of crop paid to the Minister for impr.ovements is retained by the Minister. This Bill comes into force on the first day of April, 1949, which is the date upon which the division of the Depart­ ment is effective. KENNETH A.

McKENZIE, Acting Legislative Counsel. (This note does not form any part of the Bill but is offered in explanation of its provisions.) BILL No. 46 of 1949.

An Act to amend The Crown Cultivation Leases Act. (Assented to ,1949.) HIS MAJE.ST~, by and with the advice and consent of the LegIslatIve AS$embly of the Province of Alberta enacts as follows: ' 1. Th.e Crown Cultivation Leases Act, being

chapter of the RevIsed Statutes of Alberta, 1942, is hereby amended as to

section 2,- (

a) by striking out the words "or any regulation made 'pursuant thereto" where the same occur therein and by substituting the words "or The Public L~nds Act or any regulation made pursuant thereto other than a lease issued under the authority of The Land Clearing and Breaking Projects Act"; (

b) by striking out the words "The School Taxation Act and The Social SWfvices Tax Act" where the same occur therein, and by substituting the words "and The School Taxation Act". 2. The said Act is further amended as to

section by striking out the same and by substituting the following: "3. The Minister of Lands and Forests is hereby author­ ized and empowered to pay from the moneys received in any year by him as the proceeds of the share of the crop received by the Department as rent from any land which is held as aforesaid,- "(

a) forty per cent of the money received to the municipal district or improvement district in whi,ch the land is situate; and " (

b) forty per cent of the money received to the school district in which the land is situate or, in case the school district is in a school division, to the munici­ pal district or improvement district in which the land is situate; and in any case where the Minister of Lands and Forests has fixed an additional share of the crop as payment for improvements, the percentage payable .to .the municipal district improvement district or school dIstrIct, as the case may be: shall be a percentag~ ?f the share of the crop pa!d for rent and not of the addItIonal share of the crop paId for improvements.". 3.

This Act shall come into force on the first day of April. 1949. No. 46 FIRST SESSION ELEVENTH LEGISLATURE GEORGE VI BILL

An Act to amend The Crown Cultivation Leases Act. Recei ved and read the First time ... Second time Third time HON. MR. TANNER. Title: 1949 (11th, 1st) Bill 46,

An Act to amend The Crown Cultivation Leases Act