H CHAPTER 43. An Act to amend the "Marriage Act." R.S.B.C. 1911, [Assented to 21st December, 1923.] c. 52; 1921, c. 36; IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows: 1922, c. 43. 1. This Act may be cited as the "Marriage Act Amendment Act, Short title. 1923." 2. Sections 2, 3, and 4 of the "Marriage Act," being chapter 151 Re-enacts ss. 2 to 4. of the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1911," are repealed, and the following sections are substituted therefor: "2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires: "Issuer of marriage licences' means an issuer of marriage licences appointed under this Act, or a Registrar acting ex officio as an issuer of marriage licences: "Registrar' means a Registrar appointed under this Act. "3. Every issuer of marriage licences may sign and issue to persons intending to marry, licences authorizing the solemnization of marriage in the Province pursuant to this Act. "4. Blank forms of marriage licence for the purposes of this Act shall be supplied by the Treasury Department to all issuers of marriage licences." 3. Section 6 of said chapter 151 is amended by striking out the Amends s. 6. words "under the hand and seal of the Lieutenant-Governor or his deputy" in the fourth and fifth lines, and substituting therefor the words "issued under this Act." 4. Section 14 of said chapter 151, as re-enacted by section 3 of the Amends s. 14. Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1915," is amended by striking out subsection (2), and substituting therefor the following: Re-enacts s. 15. Commencement. "(2.) It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to appoint for any district in the Province such persons as Registrars for the purposes of this Act as he thinks advisable, and every Registrar shall be ex officio an issuer of marriage licences under this Act." 5. Section 15 of said chapter 151, as re-enacted by section 4 of the "Marriage Act Amendment Act, 1915," is repealed, and the following is substituted therefor : "15. Every issuer of marriage licences, before issuing any licence under this Act to either of the persons intending to marry and apply. ing for the same, shall require the applicant to make and subscribe before him a statutory declaration in the form in Schedule A, or shall receive such statutory declaration made and subscribed before any person authorized to take statutory declarations; and shall demand and receive from the applicant a licence fee of five dollars to the use of His Majesty." 6. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of April, 1924. VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. An Act to amend the "Married Women's Property Act." R.S.B.C. 1911, c. H [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: 152; 1915, c. 41; 1922, c. 47. 1. This Act may be cited as the "Married Women's Property Act short title. Amendment Act, 1923." 2. The "Married Women's Property Act," being chapter 152 of Enacts s. 4A. the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1911," is amended by inserting therein the following as section 4A: "4A. Any judgment or order given or made against a married woman since the fourth of March, 1898, or hereafter, shall be valid notwithstanding that the same is not in the form appropriate under this Act, and any such judgment or order from the date of the giving or making thereof shall, notwithstanding any defects in form, be valid and construed as if the same were in the form appropriate under this Act." VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1923. 15 CHAPTER 45. An Act to amend the "Coal and Petroleum Act." H [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: R.S.B.C. 1911, 1914, c. 50 1915, c. 43 1919, c. 56. 1. This Act may be cited as the "Coal and Petroleum Act Amend- Short title. ment Act, 1923." 2. (1.) Section 21 of the " Coal and Petroleum Act," being chapter Amends s. 21. 159 of the "Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1911," is amended by inserting after the word "lease," in the ninth line of subsection (2), the words "Upon good cause being shown to the satisfaction of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, and upon payment by the holder of the like sum as in case of the first renewal, the LieutenantGovernor in Council may grant a second renewal of the lease for a further term of three years, subject to the like terms, conditions, and rentals and with the like effect as in the case of the first renewal." (2.) The amendment of said section 21 enacted by this section shall apply to all leases in respect of which relief has been granted under the provisions of section 3 of the "Coal and Petroleum Act Relief Act," and upon the renewal of any such lease the further term of three years shall be deemed to run from the expiration of the first renewal term of three years. The moneys paid under said section 3 by the holder of any lease renewed by virtue of this subsection may be applied at the request of the holder to the payments of renewal fees and annual rentals in respect of the lease, or partly to such payments and partly towards completion of the payments necessary for obtaining a Crown grant in respect of any other lease held by the same holder. VICTORIA, B.C.: Printed by WILLIAM H. CULLIN, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty. 1923. |