Schedule 2 amended Classification under schedule 2 amended Schedule 3 added Coming into force "Class 5. Employment of employees of workmen in or about mines." (b) By adding Class 6 as follows: "Class 6. Employment in or about operations incidental to the extraction of coal by removing the overlying strata." 24. Schedule 2 to the said Act is amended by striking out the words "employment by the Crown in the right of the Province in any capacity whatsoever," where they occur therein. 25. The classification under Schedule 2 of the said Act is amended (a) as to Class 15 by adding thereto the following: "oil refineries; creosoting of timbers; handling of natural ice." (b) As to Class 20 by striking out the words "food pro- (c) As to Class 37 by adding at the end thereof the (e) As to Class 95 by striking out the whole Class. "School Boards; University of Alberta." (h) By adding as Class 98 the following: "Class 98-The Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Company; Lacombe and Northwestern Railway Company." (i) By adding as Class 99 the following: "Class 99-Workmen's Compensation Board." 26. The heading "Schedule 3" to the enumeration of industrial diseases is hereby struck out and the heading "Enumeration of Industrial Diseases" is substituted there for. 27. Schedule 3 is added to the said Act as follows: "Class 95-Employment by Dominion Government. 28. This Act shall come into force upon the first day of May, 1924. 1924 CHAPTER 34. An Act respecting the Election of Members of the (Assented to April 12, 1924.) HIS IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: SHORT TITLE 1. This Act shall be cited as "The Alberta Election Act." Short title INTERPRETATION. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— (a) "Advance poll" shall mean a poll held as by section Advance poll 59 of this Act provided; (b) "Assembly" or "Legislative Assembly" shall mean Assembly, or the Legislative Assembly of Alberta; Legislative (c) "Candidate at an election" or "Candidate" shall Candidate mean and include a person elected to serve in the Assembly or a person who is nominated as a candidate at an election or is declared by himself or by others to be a candidate on or after the day of the issue of the writ for such election or after the dissolution of the Assembly or the occurrence of a vacancy in consequence of which the writ has been issued; Constituency (d) "City constituency" shall mean any of the electoral City (e) "Corrupt practices" or "Corrupt practice" shall Corrupt Judge (f) "Court" shall mean the District Court of the judicial Court and district within which the electoral district is wholly or mainly situated and "Judge" shall mean the Judge of the said Court; Election Election Elector Electoral Election officer Enumeration Form Hours of the day Indian Member Oath Official agent Poll book Polling day Polling subdivision Polling place (g) "Election" shall mean an election of a member to serve in the Assembly; (h) "Election Court" shall mean a court constituted under The Controverted Elections Act for the trial of a petition or in case of an appeal therefrom the Court for the hearing of the appeal; (i) "Elector" or "voter" shall mean any person entitled to vote at an election under the provisions of this Act; (j) "Electoral Division" shall mean a place or territorial area in Alberta entitled to return one or more members to serve in the Assembly; (k) "Election officer" shall mean the returning officer, election clerk, deputy returning officer, poll clerk or other person having any duty to perform pursuant to this Act to the faithful performance of which duty he may be sworn; (1) "Enumeration," "Enumerated" and all words of similar import shall include all proceedings had or taken in connection with lists of voters to be made or revised by enumerators pursuant to the provisions of this Act; (m) "Form" shall mean a form in the schedule of this Act; (n) "Hours of the day" when mentioned in this Act shall (o) "Indian" shall mean and include all persons of In- (r) “Official agent" shall mean the agent appointed as (s) "Poll book" shall mean the book or sheet or sheets containing the names of persons who have received ballots at an election; (t) "Polling day" shall mean the day fixed for voting at an election; (u) "Polling subdivision" shall mean the portion of an electoral division for which a poll is held; (v) "Polling place" shall mean the place where votes are recorded at an election; (w) "Suburban poll" shall mean and include any poll in Suburban poll a city constituency designated as such in a proclamation by the returning officer for the purpose of having it remain open the same hours as polls in a city; (x) "Voting" or "to vote" shall mean voting or to vote Voting at the election of a member to serve in the Assembly; (y) "Voters' list" or "List of voters" shall include any Voters' list list made and revised, or certified copy of list revised under the provisions of this Act of persons entitled to vote at an election; (z) "Writ" shall mean the document addressed by the writ COMMENCEMENT OF ELECTION PROCEEDINGS. 3. Every election shall be commenced by the passing of an order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council issue of writ (a) authorizing the issue of a writ of election in form Order for 1, directed and addressed to a resident voter of each electoral division respectively for which an election shall take place, who shall be named therein as returning officer of such electoral division; (b) fixing the date of the said writ or writs, which date shall be the same for all writs for a general election; (c) appointing a day not more than thirty nor less than twenty days from the date of the writ for nomination of candidates; (d) providing that where a poll is granted, the tenth day after nomination day shall be the day on which polling shall take place, or if such tenth day is a Sunday or holiday then on the next following day, not being a Sunday or holiday; (e) directing that the writ shall be returnable as by The Alberta Election Act provided. (2) Upon receipt of the said order the Clerk of the Executive Council shall issue the writ or writs in accordance with the provisions set out in the Order in Council and shall cause each writ to be transmitted by mail to the returning officer named therein. (3) Notwithstanding any provision in The Legislative Act to the contrary contained, in the event of a vacancy being created in the representation of any electoral division in any way, an election shall be held to fill such vacancy within one hundred and twenty days after the occurrence of such vacancy unless a general election is to be held before the next Session of the Legislature, provided that where it is necessary to hold such election sooner in order to give the electoral division representation at the next ensuing Session of the Legislature, such election shall be so held. 4. If the person to whom the writ is addressed dies or refuses to act or is absent or incapacitated or unable from any cause to act, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint some other person to be returning officer. 5. If a writ has been issued to a person whose appointment is afterwards superseded or to a person in whose stead a returning officer has been appointed under the provisions of the next preceding section, a new writ may be issued or the new returning officer may act under the writ already issued as if the same had been addressed to him, and the validity of the proceedings had or taken under the first appointment shall not be affected by the new appointment; but the new returning officer may appoint a new election clerk or clerks as hereinafter provided and new deputy returning officers, if he thinks fit, in the place of the persons, if any, appointed to such offices by the person previously named as returning officer. 6. None of the persons hereinafter mentioned shall be appointed nor shall act as returning officer, deputy returning officer, election clerk or poll clerk: (a) Members of the Executive Council; (b) Members of the Parliament of Canada, or of the Assembly; (c) Ministers, Priests, Ecclesiastics under any form or (d) Judges of Dominion or Provincial Courts; (f) Persons convicted of any indictable offence. (2) If any of such persons acts as returning officer, deputy returning officer, election clerk or poll clerk, he shall be guilty of a violation of this Act and shall incur a penalty of two hundred dollars. 7. None of the persons hereinafter mentioned shall be obliged to act as returning officer, deputy returning officer, election clerk or poll clerk: (a) Physicians and surgeons; (b) Persons sixty years of age or upwards; |