CHAPTER 43. An Act to amend The Industries Assessment Act. (Assented to April 2, 1927.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Industries Assessment Short title Act Amendment Act, 1927." added assessment of to be erected 2. The Industries Assessment Act, being chapter 10 of Section 4a the Statutes of Alberta, 1925, is amended by adding as section 4a, immediately after section 4, the following: "4a.-(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in Fixing any other general Act or in any special Act, the council of improvements any municipality may pass a by-law or by-laws for fixing the assessment of improvements to be erected during any of the years one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven. one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, and one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, by persons carrying on or proposing to carry on within the area of the municipality, any industrial establishment or manufactory. "(2) The actual value of such improvements shall not be less than twenty-five thousand dollars, and the fixed assessment shall not be less than twenty-five per cent of the actual value of such improvements. "(3) The fixed assessment shall only be for the years one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three, or some one or more of them, and shall not be renewable, and shall not apply to or affect any tax upon land apart from the value of the improvements thereon, special taxes, business tax or any other tax other than a tax upon the improvements made during the period of fixed assessment. "(4) The passing of such by-law or by-laws shall be in the absolute discretion of the council of any municipality and the council may in such by-law or by-laws define industrial establishment or manufactory." Section 5 amended Coming into force of Act 3. Section 5 of the said Act is amended (a) as to subsection (1) thereof, by striking out the words "The said by-law shall not be passed" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "No by-law shall be passed"; (b) by adding thereto as subsection (3) thereof the following: "(3) Where a plebiscite has been submitted, or a by-law has been passed at any time after the date of the passing of this Act, which by-law or plebiscite complies with the provisions of this Act, such by-law or plebiscite shall be valid and binding without further submission to the vote of the electors qualified to vote on money by-laws." 4. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to. CHAPTER 44. An Act to amend The Workmen's Compensation Act (Accident Fund). (Assented to April 2, 1927.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Workmen's Compensa- Short title tion Act (Accident Fund) Amendment Act, 1927." 2. The Workmen's Compensation Act (Accident Fund), New being chapter 177 of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1922. is amended by striking out section 25 thereof, and substituting therefor the following: assessment certificate "25.-(1) Where default is made in the payment of any Recovery of assessment or any special assessment or any part thereof, by filing the board may issue its certificate stating that the assessment was made, the amount remaining unpaid on account of it, and the person by whom it was payable, and directing the payment of such amount by such person, and such certificate or a copy of it, certified by the secretary under the seal of the board to be a true copy, may be filed with the clerk of the Supreme Court or the clerk of the District Court of any district, and when so filed shall become an order of the Court, and shall be enforced as a judgment of the Court. "(2) The board shall have the like power and be entitled to the like remedies of enforcing payment of any sum (other than an assessment) which any employer is required to pay to the board under any of the provisions of this Act, as it possesses or is entitled to in respect of assessments." amended 3. Section 49 of the said Act is amended by adding as Section 49 subsection (1a) immediately after subsection (1) thereof, the following: in respect of "(1a) Where in the opinion of the board, the furnishing Compensation of further or better education to a child approaching the child over age of sixteen years appears advisable, the board in its dis- sixteen years cretion may extend the period during which compensation. shall be paid in respect of such child for such additional period as is spent by such child in the furthering or bettering of his education, but in no case, beyond the age of eighteen years." Section 53 amended Permanent disfigurement Section 56 amended Coming into force of Act 4. Section 53 of the said Act is amended by striking out subsection (3) thereof, and inserting in lieu thereof, the following: "(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, the board may in case a workman is or has been at any time since the last day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, seriously and permanently disfigured about the face or head, or otherwise permanently injured, recognize an impairment of earning capacity, and may as from the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, allow lump sums or periodical payments or both, as compensation." 5. Section 56 of the said Act is amended as to subsection (5) thereof, by striking out the words "eleven hundred and forty dollars per annum" and substituting therefor the words "twelve hundred and fifty dollars per annum." 6. This Act shall come into force on the day upon which it is assented to. |