C. 24 administered in certain cases for the purposes of either House 31 & 32 Vict., of Parliament" shall be deemed to be valid and to have been valid as from the date at which the royal assent was given thereto by the governor general of the Dominion of Canada. 3. This Act may be cited as "The Parliament of Canada Short title Act 1875." Provision by Parliament of Canada THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICA ACT 1886. 49-50 VICTORIA, CHAPTER 35. An Act respecting the Representation in the Parlia- W [June 25, 1886.] HEREAS it is expedient to empower the Parliament of Canada to provide for the representation in the Senate and House of Commons of Canada or either of them of any territory which for the time being forms part of the Dominion of Canada but is not included in any province: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords. Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present parliament assembled and by the authority of the same as follows: 1. The Parliament of Canada may from time to time make provisions for the representation in the Senate and House of for represen- Commons of Canada or in either of them of any territories which for the time being form part of the Dominion of Canada but are not included in any province thereof. tation of territories Effect of Acts of Parliament of Canada 34 & 35 30 & 31 Vict., c. 3 Short title and construction 2. Any Act passed by the Parliament of Canada before the passing of this Act for the purpose mentioned in this Act shall if not disallowed by the Queen be and shall be deemed to have been valid and effectual from the date at which it received the assent in her Majesty's name of the governor general of Canada. It is hereby declared that any Act passed by the Parliament of Canada whether before or after the passing of this Act for the purpose mentioned in this Act or in The British North America Act 1871 has effect notwithstanding anything in The British North America Act 1867 and the number of senators or the number of members of the House of Commons specified in the last mentioned Act is increased by the number of senators or of members, as the case may be, provided by any such Act of the Parliament of Canada for the representation of any provinces or territories of Canada. 3. This Act may be cited as "The British North America Act 1886." 30 & 31 This Act and The British North America Act 1867 and The British North America Act 1871 shall be construed together 34 & 35 and may be cited together as "The British North America Act 1867 to 1886." Vict., c. 28 Preamble Short title Province of Saskatchewan formed; its boundaries THE SASKATCHEWAN ACT. 4-5 EDWARD VII, CHAPTER 42. An Act to establish and provide for the Government of the Province of Saskatchewan. W [Assented to July 20, 1905.] HEREAS in and by The British North America Act 1871, being chapter 28 of the Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in the session thereof held in the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth years of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Victoria, it is enacted that the Parliament of Canada may from time to time establish new provinces in any territories forming for the time being part of the Dominion of Canada but not included in any province thereof and may at the time of such establishment make provision for the constitution and administration of any such province and for the passing of laws for the peace, order and good government of such province and for its representation in the said Parliament of Canada; And whereas it is expedient to establish as a province the territory hereinafter described and to make provision for the government thercof and the representation thereof in the Parliament of Canada: Therefore his Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Saskatchewan Act." 2. The territory comprised within the following boundaries, that is to say: Commencing at the intersection of the international boundary dividing Canada from the United States of America by the west boundary of the Province of Manitoba, thence northerly along the said west boundary of the Province of Manitoba to the north-west corner of the said Province of Manitoba; thence continuing northerly along the centre of the road allowance between the twenty-ninth and thirtieth ranges west of the principal meridian in the system of Dominion lands surveys as the said road allowance may hereafter be defined in accordance with the said system to the second meridian in the said system of Dominion lands surveys as the same may hereafter be defined in accordance with the said system; thence northerly along the said second meridian to the sixtieth degree of north latitude; thence westerly along the parallel of the sixtieth degree of north latitude to the fourth meridian in the said system of Dominion lands surveys as the same may be hereafter defined in accordance with the said system; thence southerly along the said fourth meridian to the said international boundary dividing Canada from the United States of America; thence easterly along the said international boundary to the point of commencement, is hereby established as a province of the Dominion of Canada to be called and known as the Province of Saskatchewan. 1967 to 1886, 3. The provisions of The British North America Acts 1867 B.N.A. Acts, to 1886 shall apply to the Province of Saskatchewan in the to apply same way and to the like extent as they apply to the provinces heretofore comprised in the Dominion as if the said Province of Saskatchewan had been one of the provinces originally united, except in so far as varied by this Act and except such provisions as are in terms made or by reasonable intendment may be held to be specially applicable to or only to affect one or more and not the whole of the said provinces. 4. The said province shall be represented in the Senate of Representa Canada by four members: Provided that such representation may after the completion of the next decennial cnsus be from time to time increased to six by the Parliament of Canada. tion in the Senate tion in the Commons 5. The said province and the Province of Alberta shall Representauntil the termination of the Parliament of Canada existing at House of the time of the first readjustment hereinafter provided for continue to be represented in the House of Commons as provided by chapter 60 of the Statutes of 1903 each of the electoral districts defined in that part of the schedule to the said Act which relates to the North-West Territories whether such district is wholly in one of the said provinces or partly in one and partly in the other of them being represented by one member. next quin census 6. Upon the completion of the next quinquennial census for Readjustthe said province the representation thereof shall forthwith ment after be readjusted by the Parliament of Canada in such manner quennial that there shall be assigned to the said province such a number of members as will bear the same proportion to the number of its population ascertained at such quinquennial census as the number sixty-five bears to the number of the population of Quebec as ascertained at the then last decennial census; and in the computation of the number of members for the said province a fractional part not exceeding one-half of the whole number requisite for entitling the province to a member shall be disregarded and a fractional part exceeding one-half of that number shall be deemed equivalent to the whole number and such readjustment shall take effect upon the termination of the parliament then existing. |