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CHAPTER 21.

R.S.B.C. 1911,

c. 102; 1913, c. 30; 1916, c. 26; 1918,

[Assented to 21st December, 1923.] c. 33; 1920, c. 33.

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Hospital Act Amendment Act, Short title. 1923."

2. Section 2 of the "Hospital Act," being chapter 102 of the Amends s. 2. "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1911," is amended by inserting therein the following definitions:

"Board of management' means the directors, managers,

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trustees, or other body of persons having the control and
management of a hospital:

Indigent person' means a person who by reason of being
poor and destitute is unable to procure suitable surgical
or medical treatment:

"Municipality' includes a village municipality."

3. Section 3 of said chapter 102 is repealed, and the following is Re-enacts s. 3. substituted therefor:

"3. (1.) No hospital shall receive aid from the public moneys of
the Province under this or any other Act, nor shall munícipalities
be liable under this Act for the payment to the hospital of the
charges of the care and treatment of indigent persons, unless:-
"(a.) Provision is made for representation of the Provincial

Government and municipalities upon the board of man-
agement of the hospital to the extent and in the manner
provided by or under this Act:

"(b.) Full control of the receipts and expenditures of the
hospital is vested in its board of management:

Re-enacts s. 8.

Enacts s. 10A.

Amends 1913, c. 30, s. 7.

"(c.) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council has approved of the constitution of and the powers vested in the board of

management.

"(2.) For the purposes of this section, the Municipal Council or Board of Commissioners of the municipality in which a hospital is situate shall from time to time appoint a person to represent the municipality upon the board of management of the hospital; and the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, if he considers it advisable, appoint a person who is a member of the Council of an adjoining municipality to represent the municipalities which adjoin the municipality in which the hospital is situate upon the board of management of the hospital. If the Municipal Council or Board of Commissioners neglects or fails to make an appointment as provided in this subsection, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint a person to represent the municipality in which the hospital is situate. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special Act, the persons appointed as representatives upon the board of management of any hospital pursuant to this subsection shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be members of the board of management of that hospital in addition to and with like duties and powers of the duly elected or appointed regular members of the board of management."

4. Section 8 of said chapter 102 is repealed, and the following is substituted therefor:

"8. Every board of management of a hospital shall enact by-laws or regulations for the proper carrying-out of the business of the hospital, but no such by-laws or regulations for the government and management of the hospital, or for prescribing the method and terms of admission thereto, or for defining and regulating the duties and powers of the officers and servants thereof, and the salaries of such officers and servants, shall have force and effect unless the same are approved by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council."

5. Said chapter 102 is amended by inserting therein the following as section 10A:

"10A. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may withhold the amounts payable under this Act to any hospital, the board of management of which refuses or neglects to carry out the provisions of this Act or the regulations."

6. Section 7 of the "Hospital Act Amendment Act, 1913," being chapter 30 of the Statutes of 1913, is amended by inserting after the word "any," in the first line of subsection (1) as re-enacted by section 3 of the "Hospital Act Amendment Act, 1916," the word "indigent"; and by striking out subsection (3), and substituting therefor the following:

"(3.) Where there is no such agreement, and any indigent person is admitted as a patient to any hospital receiving aid under this.

Act, the clerk or some other officer of such hospital shall by registered post notify the clerk of the municipality of which the patient represents himself as being a resident that he has been admitted to the hospital, giving such particulars as may be ascertainable to enable the clerk to identify the patient. The notice shall be given within seven days from the admission of the patient, or as soon as practicable thereafter, and unless the notice is so given the municipality shall not be liable to pay the charges for the care and maintenance of the patient."

7. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of April, Commencement. 1924.

VICTORIA, B.C.:

Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
1923.

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[Assented to 21st December, 1923.]

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the "Hours of Work Act, 1923."

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires:-
"Employed" means in receipt of a wage or salary as compensa-
tion for work performed for an employer:

"Employer" means a person directly or indirectly responsible
for the payment of the wage or salary of a person employed
in any industrial undertaking:

"Industrial undertaking" includes:

(a.) Mines, quarries, and other works for the extraction of minerals from the earth:

(b.) Industries in which articles are manufactured, altered, cleaned, repaired, ornamented, finished, adapted for sale, broken up or demolished, or in which materials are transformed; including ship-building and the generation, transformation, and transmission of electricity or motive power of any kind and logging operations:

(c.) Construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, alteration, or demolition of any building, railway, tramway, harbour, dock, pier, canal, inland waterway, road, tunnel, bridge, viaduct, sewer, drain, well, telegraphic or telephonic installation, electrical undertaking, gaswork, waterwork, or other work of construction, as well as the preparation for or laying the foundations of any such work or structure;

Short title.

Interpretation.