Bill 223 (Legislature 20, Session 1)

L20 S1 3755

Alberta — Bills

1983 BILL 223 First Session, 20th Legislature, 32 Elizabeth II THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF ALBERTA BILL 223

AN ACT TO PREVENT DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUND OF POLITICAL BELIEFS MR. MARTIN First Reading Second Reading Committee of the Whole Third Reading Royal Assent . f. . tL- ^.^ «.TJt n. 1

Bill 223 Mr. Martin BILL 223 1983

AN ACT TO PREVENT DISCRIMINATION ON THE GROUNDS OF POLITICAL BELIEFS (Assented to , 1983) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1 The Individual's Rights Protection Act is amended by this Act. 2

Section 1(2) is repealed and the following is substituted:

(2) In this Act, (a) "law of Alberta" means

an Act of the Legislature of Alberta enacted before or after the commencement of this Act, any order, mle or regulation made thereunder, and any law in force in Alberta on January 1, 1973 that is subject to be repealed, abolished or altered by the Legislature of Alberta: (b) "political beliefs" means any opinion, view or convic tion, conceming the conduct and objects of public affairs, and which assumes compliance with the laws of Canada and Alberta. 3 "political beliefs," is added after "religious beliefs," where it occurs in the following provisions:

section 2(1);

section 3;

section 4;

section 7(1);

section 8(1);

section 10.

Explanatory Notes 1 This Bill wdl amend

chapter 1-2 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta 1980. 2 Adds a definition of "political beliefs". 3 Adds political beliefs as a forbidden ground for discrimination.

Section 9 is struck out and the following is substituted: 9 Sections 7 and 8 do not apply to prevent an organization composed exclusively or primarily of persons having the same political beliefs and whose purpose is the furtherance of those beliefs, from refusing to employ or discriminating against a per son because of his political beliefs or circulating or advertising a limdation on the political beliefs of an applicant for employment or requiring the fumishing of information on an applicant's polit ical beliefs. In accordance with

section 4(1) of the

Interpretation Act, this Bill comes into force on the date it receives Royal Assent.

Section 9 presendy reads: 9 Sections 7 and 8 do not apply with respect to (

a) a domestic employed in a private home, or (

b) a farm employee who resides in the private home of the farmer who employs him. Title: 1983 (20th, 1st) Bill 223,

An Act to Prevent Discrimination on the Ground of Political Beliefs

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