(2) Clause (g) of said section 30 is relettered "(h).' (3) The said section is further amended by inserting therein the following as subsections (2) and (3): "(2) No person under the age of sixteen years shall operate, nor shall an employer permit any such person to operate, an elevator used in or about any building for the carriage of passengers. "(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of clause (g) of the first subsection hereof, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations respecting the construction, operation, maintenance and carrying capacity of elevators, hoists, dumb waiters or other hoisting appliances installed in or about any building and may except from the operation of all or any of such regulations, for such time as may seem proper, any such elevator, hoist, dumb waiter or hoisting appliance whenever the same is of such character or used under such circumstances that in his opinion there is no danger of accident by injury to any person in connection with the operation thereof." (4) Subsections (2) and (3) of said section 30 are respectively renumbered "(4)" and "(5)". 5. This Act shall come into force on the first day of May, 1920. CHAPTER 11 An Act respecting the Registration of Births, [Assented to February 4, 1920.] IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the follows: SHORT TITLE. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Vital Statistics Act, Short title 1920." 1916, c. 13, s. 1. INTERPRETATION. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, Interpretation the expression: 1. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of public "Comhealth; missioner" 2. "Forthwith" means that the action thus limited "Forthwith" shall take place within twenty-four hours; 3. "House" includes a part of a house and a tenement "House" building, tent, room or dwelling place, and a suite or flat in an apartment building and a hotel; 4. "Minister" means the member of the Executive "Minister" Council to whom for the time being is assigned the administration of this Act; 5. "Municipality" means a city, town, village or "Municirural municipality; pality" 6. "Occupier" includes the governor, keeper, warden "Occupier" or superintendent of a jail, prison, penitentiary, lunatic asylum, poor asylum, hospital, sanatorium, industrial home, house of refuge, or public or private charitable institution, and the tenant, proprietor or manager of a hotel or boarding house; 7. "Physician" means a duly qualified medical prac- "Physician" titioner practising his profession in Saskatchewan, and registered as such practitioner in the college of physicians and surgeons of Saskatchewan; forms" 8. "Prescribed forms" means the forms prepared by "Prescribed the commissioner and approved by the Lieutenant Governor in Council; Record" "Registrar" "Registration" "Registration division" "Undertaker" 9. "Record" means the form containing the particu lars for registration of births, marriages and deaths; 10. division; Registrar" means the registrar for a registration 11. "Registration" means the official recording of particulars of births, marriages and deaths; 12. "Registration division" means a municipality or a territorial unit or unorganised territory set apart as a registration division; 13. "Undertaker" means a person who takes charge of the burial or other disposition of dead bodies. c. 13, s. 2, amended. 1916, Duties of commissioner Application of Act Annual statistics Regulations ADMINISTRATION. 3. The commissioner shall, under the direction of the minister, perform the duties prescribed by this Act. 1916, c. 13, s. 3, in part. 4. The provisions of this Act shall apply to every person resident within the province, whether such residence be permanent or temporary, and to all races. and nationalities except persons who are Indians within the meaning of the Act of the parliament of Canada respecting Indians. 1916, c. 13, s. 4. 5. The minister shall annually collate, publish and distribute for the use of the Legislature a full report of the births, marriages and deaths of the preceding vear, giving such details, statistics and information as the Lieutenant Governor in Council may deem necessary. 1916, c. 13, s. 5. 6. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make such regulations as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of obtaining information required by this Act. 1916, c. 13, s. 6. Searches Certificate of commissioner OFFICE AND DUTIES OF COMMISSIONER. 7.-(1) Any person shall be entitled at all reasonable hours, on payment of the prescribed fee and on signing an application in the prescribed form, to have search made of the record of a birth, marriage or death kept in the office of the commissioner. (2) The commissioner shall, when requested, and on payment of the prescribed fee, give a certificate of the details of any birth, marriage or death of which there is a record in his office. evidence (3) The certificate shall be prima facie evidence in any Effect as court, or in any proceeding before a justice of the peace, of the facts certified. searches and (4) The fees to be paid for searches and certificates Fees for shall be prescribed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, certificates but shall not exceed: (a) for a search for one registration for a period of (b) for a search for one registration for more than (c) for a certificate in addition to the fee for search of forms 8. For the purpose of obtaining correct statistical Preparation information, the commissioner shall cause such forms to be used as may be approved by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, and shall distribute them to the registrars. 1916, c. 13, s. 7, amended. 9. of instructions (1) The commissioner shall prepare and issue such Preparation detailed instructions as may be required to procure the uniform observance of the provisions of this Act and the maintenance of an efficient system of registration. No blanks shall be used other than those supplied by him. infectious (2) He shall inform all registrars what diseases are to Definition of be considered infectious, contagious, or communicable diseases and dangerous to the public health, as decided by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, in order that when deaths occur from such diseases proper precautions may be taken to prevent their spread. New. of returns 10. He shall examine the original returns received Examination monthly from the registrars, and if any of these are incomplete or unsatisfactory he shall require such further information to be supplied as may be necessary to make the record complete and satisfactory. New. obtain infor 11.-(1) Upon the demand of the commissioner in Power to person or by mail or through the division registrar, all mation clergymen, physicians, nurses, informants or undertakers, or other persons having knowledge of the facts, are hereby required to supply, upon a form provided by the commissioner or upon the original form, such information as they may possess regarding any birth, marriage or death. (2) No record of a birth, marriage or death, after its Alteration of acceptance for registration by the registrar, and no records Preservation of records Filing of records of other record made in pursuance of this Act shall be altered or changed in any respect otherwise than by amendments properly dated, signed and witnessed. (3) The commissioner shall arrange, bind and permanently preserve the records in a systematic manner, and shall prepare and maintain a comprehensive and continuous index of births, marriages and deaths. New. 12. (1) If any cemetery company or association, or cemeteries, etc. any church or historical society or association, or any other company, society or association, or any individual is in possession of a record of births, marriages or deaths which may be of value in establishing the genealogy of any resident of this province, such company, society, association or individual may file such record or a duly authenticated transcript thereof with the commissioner without expense to them. Preservation of records Records open to inspection Transcripts Account and disposal of fees Legal proceedings (2) The commissioner shall preserve such record or transcript and make a record and index thereof in such form as to facilitate the finding of any information contained therein. (3) Such record and index shall be open to inspection. by the public, subject to such reasonable conditions as the commissioner may prescribe. (4) The commissioner may demand that such records. shall be filed for the purpose of making transcripts. New. 13. The commissioner shall keep a true account of all fees received by him under these provisions and deposit the same with the provincial treasurer. New. 14. (1) The commissioner shall have supervisory power over inspectors, registrars and subregistrars, to the end that the requirements of this Act shall be uniformly complied with. (2) The commissioner shall have authority to investigate, either personally or by an accredited representative, cases of irregularity or violation of law, and all registrars. or subregistrars shall aid him, upon request, in such investigations. When he deems it necessary, he shall institute proceedings in cases of violation of any of the provisions of this Act. New. Appointment and duties INSPECTORS OF VITAL STATISTICS. 15. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint an inspector or inspectors of vital statistics whose duties it shall be to inspect the registration offices and examine the schedules prepared under this Act, and to see that the |