1927 CHAPTER 50 An Act to amend The Administrator of Estates of the Mentally Incompetent Act, 1922. [Assented to March 3, 1927.J IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, enacts. as follows: 1. The Administrator of Estates of the Mentally Incom- 1921-22, c. 65 petent Act, 1922, is amended in the manner hereinafter set forth. 186 2. Section 18b, as enacted by chapter 44 of the statutes New section of 1925-26, is repealed and the following substituted therefor: of estates in of persons provinces "18b. (1) Any official of any other province of the Administration Dominion, appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Saskatchewan Council under section 21 to administer the estate in this deceased in province of a mentally incompetent person who is detained other in an asylum or other public institution in that other province, may apply to the proper surrogate court in this province for letters of administration or letters of administration with the will annexed of the estate in Saskatchewan of a deceased person of whose estate in such other province the applicant is administrator; and, upon payment of the proper fees and otherwise complying with the practice and procedure of such court, in so far as the same are applicable, he shall be entitled to such letters in priority to the next of kin of the deceased or any other person interested in the deceased's estate; but he shall not be required to give security. "(2) The provisions of subsection (1) shall come into force with regard to any official therein referred to at such time as may be fixed by order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council." amended 3.-(1) Subsection (1) of section 21, as enacted by Section 21 chapter 44 of the statutes of 1925-26, is repealed and the following substituted therefor: Coming into force "(1) Where a mentally incompetent person who is detained in an asylum or other public institution in any other province of the Dominion has estate situate in this province, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint an official of that other province who is charged with the duty of managing, handling, administering or caring for the estate of the mentally incompetent person in that other province to be administrator of the estate of such person in this province, and the order in council making such appointment shall be conclusive proof that all the conditions precedent necessary to the appointment have been fulfilled." (2) Subsection (3) of the said section 21, as so enacted, is repealed and the following substituted therefor: "(3) The certificate required to be produced under the provisions of section 10 shall be sufficiently signed if purporting to be signed by the minister or acting minister in charge of the administration of estates of mentally incompetent persons in any province an official of which has been appointed in accordance with subsection (1).” 4. This Act shall come into force on the day on which it is assented to. 1927 CHAPTER 51 An Act to amend The Noxious Weeds Act, 1924 [4ssented to March 3, 1927.] IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, enacts as follows: 1. Section 10 of The Noxious Weeds Act, 1924, is 1924, c. 40, amended by adding thereto the following subsections: "(2) A municipality may by bylaw require that, before any of the kinds of seed or fodder named in this section are imported into or offered for sale or sold in the municipality, the owner thereof or his agent shall submit a representative sample thereof to a weed inspector employed by such municipality or, if there is no weed inspector, to the secretary or clerk of such municipality, if such material contains seeds of noxious weeds. This subsection shall not apply to registered seed in sealed sacks bearing the seal of The Canadian Seed Growers' Association, or seed which is correctly graded and labelled in accordance with The Seeds Act (Dominion). "(3) Before the removal of screenings from grain elevators or warehouses where grain is cleaned or stored, the purchaser of such screenings shall obtain a permit to do so from a weed inspector or, if there is no weed inspector, from the secretary or clerk of the municipality into which it is proposed to remove such screenings, and such removal shall be subject to the conditions specified in the permit: "Provided that a farmer may without such permit receive and return to his own premises in holeproof sacks the screenings from grain produced on his farm. "(4) Noncompliance with the conditions of any permit granted by a weed inspector or a municipal secretary or clerk under the authority of this section shall be a violation of this Act and each violation shall constitute a separate offence." s. 10, amended 2. This Act shall come into force on the first day of Coming into May, 1927. force Rev. Stat. c. 168 New title Sections 2, 3 and 4 amended Coming into force 1927 CHAPTER 52 An Act to amend The Animals Protection Act. [Assented to March 8, 1927.] IS Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of as follows: 1. The Animals Protection Act is amended in the manner hereinafter set forth. 2. The title is repealed and the following substituted therefor: "An Act for the Protection of Certain Domestic Animals from Dogs." 3. The said Act is further amended by striking out the word "sheep" wherever it appears therein. 4. This Act shall come into force on the first day of May, 1927. 1927 CHAPTER 53 An Act to provide for the Protection of Sheep and the Licensing of Dogs. HIS [Assented to March 3, 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 Sheep Protection and Short title Dog Licensing Act, 1927. 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, Interpretation the expression: "running at 1. "At large" or "running at large" means off the "At large," premises of the owner and not muzzled or under the con- large" trol of any person; 2. "Dog" means any dog, male or female more than "Dog" four months old and includes an animal which is a cross between a dog and a wolf; "injuring" 3. "Injured" and "injuring" includes injuries caused Injured," by wounding, worrying, terrifying or pursuing; 4. "Municipality" includes a city, town, village and "Municipality" rural municipality; 5. "Owner" includes any person who possesses or "Owner" harbours a dog; and "owned" has a corresponding meaning; 6. "Sheep" means sheep of any age. "Sheep" PART I. PROTECTION OF SHEEP. 3. Any person may kill any dog; (a) which is found killing, injuring or pursuing (b) which is found at large at any time and not Power to destroy dogs |