W 1927 CHAPTER 30 An Act to validate Certain Tax Sales. [Assented to February 7, 1927.] HEREAS certain municipalities have sold lands for Preamble arrears of taxes, some of which were imposed before the issue of patent; and Whereas in consequence of such irregularity the applications of tax purchasers for title have been rejected, and in some cases the period within which such applications might be made has expired; and Whereas it is expedient to validate such sales and extend the time for applying for title: Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, enacts as follows: validated 1. No sale of land for taxes heretofore made shall be Certain sales held invalid by reason only of the fact that the taxes or any of the taxes in arrear were imposed while the title was in the Crown, if such taxes were imposed upon or in respect of the occupancy of the land by the patentee or any holder of an entry to whom a certificate of recommendation for patent had been issued or any assignee or transferee of such holder's interest. for title 2. Any person who purchased land sold under the Application circumstances mentioned in the preceding section, or the holder of the tax sale certificate, may apply for title at any time before the thirty-first day of December, 1927, and the registrar may issue title to the applicant notwithstanding that the period prescribed for such application by The Arrears of Taxes Act may have expired. 3. Nothing herein contained shall affect the rights of Actions parties to any action or other proceeding now pending. pending Short title Interpretation Application of Act Establishment system Salaries and holidays Penalties 1927 CHAPTER 31 An Act respecting the Two-Platoon System for Employees of Certain Municipal Fire Departments. [Assented to March 1, 1927.] HIS 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 Fire Departments Two-Platoon Act, 1927. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression "fire chief" means the officer in charge of a fire department. 3. Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, this Act shall apply on and after the first day of January, 1928, to every city having a population of ten thousand or over, as shown by the last Dominion census. 4. In every city to which this Act applies the fire chief shall, from time to time, divide the officers and employees of the fire department into two platoons for work only in accordance with one of the following systems: 1. Under which the fire chief shall not keep a platoon on duty for more than twenty-four consecutive hours, after which the platoon so kept on duty shall be allowed twenty-four consecutive hours off duty; 2. Under which one platoon shall be on duty for daywork for ten consecutive hours each day and the other shall be on duty for night-work for fourteen consecutive hours each day, each platoon to alternate at least once in every seven days from day-work to night-work or from night-work to day-work, as the case may be. 5. No deduction shall be made from the pay or the holidays of the officers or employees of a fire department by reason only of the provisions of this Act. 6. Subject to the provisions of section 7, every fire chief or other officer of a fire department who directs or requires an officer or employee to be on duty in violation of the provisions of this Act shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty of not less than $10 nor more than $100. attendance conflagrations 7. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Full Act, in case of a conflagration for the control of which the at attendance of all officers and employees of the department is, in the opinion of the fire chief, necessary, he may require the attendance of all the officers and employees for work during the continuance of the conflagration. taken on 8. (1) At any time during the year 1927, the council Vote to be of a city having the population required by section 3 question may submit to a vote of the electors the question: "Are you in favour of the adoption of the two-platoon system for the fire department of ?" (2) Should no vote be taken under subsection (1) or should a majority of the votes cast be in the affirmative, the foregoing sections of this Act shall apply to that city. Should the majority be in the negative, those sections shall not apply. (3) Notwithstanding that the question has been negatived, the council shall continue to possess the powers of prescribing the duties of the fire department conferred upon it by The City Act, and may exercise those powers as if this Act had not been passed. 9. The majority of votes cast, as shown by the return Majority of the returning officer, shall decide the questions. to decide Short title Order in Council confirmed 1927 CHAPTER 32 An Act to Validate a Certain Agreement Respecting the Distribution of Relief. H' [Assented to February 7, 1927.] 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 Municipalities Relief Act, 1927. 2. An order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council numbered 259 of 1926 and dated February 11, 1926, ratifying and confirming a memorandum of agreement between the Honourable Charles Stewart, Minister of the Department of the Interior, on behalf of the Government of the Dominion of Canada, and the Honourable Charles A. Dunning, Premier, on behalf of the Government of the Province of Saskatchewan, entered into on the ninth day of February, 1926, which order in council and agreement are set out in the schedule to this Act, is approved, ratified and confirmed, and the said agreement is declared to be and always to have been from the date of the execution thereof valid and binding upon the parties. Regina, Thursday, February 11, 1926. The Executive Council, having had under consideration a Memorandum of Agreement between the Honourable Charles Stewart, Minister of the Department of the Interior, on behalf of the Government of the Dominion of Canada, and the Honourable Charles A. Dunning, Premier, on behalf of the Government of the Province of Saskatchewan, entered into on the ninth day of February, 1926, a copy of which Memorandum of Agreement is attached hereto and made part of this Minute, advises that the said Agreement be hereby ratified and confirmed, and declared to be and always to have been from the date of the execution thereof valid and binding upon the parties thereto. CHAS. A. DUNNING. MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT. MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT between the Honourable Charles Stewart, Minister of the Department of the Interior, on behalf of the Government of the Dominion of Canada, and the Honourable Charles A. Dunning, Premier, on behalf of the Government of the Province of Saskatchewan, entered into this ninth day of February, 1926. Whereas, the Government of the Dominion of Canada and the Government of the Province of Saskatchewan recognise that a serious situation exists in a portion of the Province of Saskatchewan, owing to the severe hardship caused by crop failure, and that the settlers in the areas affected are in many cases in need of certain relief by way of provisions and fuel, as well as fodder for animals; And whereas, the Governments aforesaid have undertaken to provide such relief to the said needy settlers affected on the terms and in the manner hereafter set forth: Therefore, it is agreed by the said Minister of the Interior and the said Premier of the Province of Saskatchewan as follows: (1) That the Government of the Province of Saskatchewan will undertake the distribution of relief to said settlers, whether owning their land or holding the same. under entry from the Dominion of Canada and in accordance with their necessities. (2) The respective Governments aforesaid will each bear one-half of the amount of such relief and for such purpose the Government of the Dominion of Canada will, from time to time and upon the request of the Government of the Province of Saskatchewan pay over to the latter the necessary funds to meet its one-half share of the total amount of relief as provided; it being understood, however, that no part of the expense of the administration in connection with the distribution of such relief is to be paid by the Government of the Dominion of Canada. |