CHAPTER 34

An Act to provide Relief in Local Improvement

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Districts.

[Assented to February 4, 1920.]

IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Local Improvement Short title Districts Relief Act, 1920."

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, Interpretation the expression:

1. "Minister" means the minister of agriculture.

"Minister"

RELIEF IN LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS.

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3. In local improvement districts the minister of Advances by agriculture may make advances of flour, coal and fodder to such farmers therein resident as may be unable to purchase the same without assistance and have become unable to do so through failure of crops or other adverse conditions.

4. Applications for relief shall be made to the minister Applications in writing in a form approved by him.

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5.—(1) The minister on making an advance under the Minister to authority of this Act may take from the purchaser a lien note or agreement in favour of the provincial treasurer in form approved by the minister, payable on demand, charging the lands of the applicant with repayment of the amounts of the advance and interest thereon at the rate of seven per cent. per annum before and after demand until paid.

(2) Where the purchaser is registered owner of land, the lien note shall designate such land either by reference to the certificate of title or by such a description as shall identify the land; where he is not a registered owner but is the purchaser of land under agreement, or is tenant or occupant, the same form of note may be taken but no particular description shall be required.

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Discharge of liens

Discharge of executions

No charge for registration

Regulations and forms

Retrospective

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(3) Notwithstanding anything in The Land Titles Act, 1917, the signature to such lien note or agreement shall be sufficiently authenticated if purporting to be witnessed by any person acting for the minister. No affidavit of attestation shall be required, but the registrar of land titles shall register every such lien note when so signed and authenticated against the land, if any, specified therein, and he shall also file the same as an execution against all the lands or all the other lands of the lienor in the land registration district.

(4) Instead of entering a memorandum in the execution docket the registrar may use a separate docket for the purpose.

6. The provincial treasurer may direct the registrar to enter a memorandum on the certificate of title to any land specified to the effect that the amount charged against the said land for advances under this Act has been paid, and the registrar shall make such memorandum accordingly, and thereupon the lien shall be discharged.

7. The provincial treasurer may direct the registrar of land titles to enter a memorandum in the execution docket or in the special docket used for relief liens under this Act, as the case may be, to the effect that the lands of the person named in the notice will be released from all liens under this Act, and upon receipt of such notice. the registrar shall make the memorandum accordingly and thereafter the lands of the person mentioned shall be released and discharged from all such liens.

8. All registrations, annotations, memoranda, entries or other work performed by any registrar of land titles as provided in this Act, shall be done without fee or charge of any kind.

9. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act according to their true intent and of supplying any deficiency therein, the minister may:

(a) make regulations not inconsistent with the spirit of the Act which shall have the same force and effect as if incorporated herein;

(b) authorise or require the use of forms and from time to time alter, amend or cancel the same and substitute new forms in place of those cancelled.

10. This Act shall apply retrospectively as of and from the first day of October, 1919, and all orders hereto

fore made and all acts, transactions, matters and things done or executed by the minister for the purpose of carrying out the objects of this Act are hereby ratified and confirmed and declared to be and always to have been legal and valid.

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11. Moneys expended upon the purposes of this Act Consolidated shall be chargeable to and payable out of the consolidated

fund.

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CHAPTER 35

An Act to amend The University Act.

[Assented to February 4, 1920.]

IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, enacts as

follows:

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1. Paragraph 2 of section 89 of The University Act, Section 89, being chapter 98 of The Revised Statutes of Saskatchewan amended 1909, is amended by striking out the words "on the first day of February in each year" in the third line and substituting therefor the words "after the close of a fiscal year of the province."