the last five years before retiring. But no pension allowed under this section shall be less than two hundred and fifty dollars or more than eight hundred dollars, per annum; and further no pension heretofore allowed under chapter 17 of the Acts, 10 Edward VII (1910), shall hereafter be less than two hundred and fifty dollars per annum. 2. Any teacher who is in the public school service and holds a valid license and who has taught in the public schools of New Brunswick for twenty years or more, or any person who may be eligible for disability allowance under this Act as provided by section 7, and who has given not less than twenty years of service as a public school teacher and in connection with the public schools or public school service of New Brunswick, shall, upon becoming incapacitated from further teaching or service as aforesaid, and upon certification of total disability to teach or to engage regularly in any other occupation, by a physician appointed by the Board of Education, receive annually, as a disability allowance, as many thirty-fifths (not to exceed thirty-five) of a sum equal to one-half of the average salary of such teacher or person for the last five years before such disability as he or she may have given years of teaching or services as aforesaid, or both: Provided, however, that no such one-half of the average salary shall be considered as less than two hundred and fifty dollars or more than eight hundred dollars; and further provided that if such period of teaching and service as aforesaid shall be less than thirty-five years and consist of a number of years and a fraction of a year then such fraction, if less than onehalf of a year, shall be rejected, and if more than one-half of a year, the part over one-half of a year shall be rejected; and further if such period be over thirty-five years, all above thirty-five years shall be rejected. 3. All pensions and disability allowances shall be paid at such times and in accordance with such regulations as may be prescribed by the Board of Education. 4. There shall be a fund known as the Teachers' Pension Fund, consisting of the contributions and payments of the teachers, and other persons to whom this Act is made applicable by section 7, and a sum set aside by the Provincial SecretaryTreasurer as hereinafter provided, and to be administered by the Provincial Secretary-Treasurer. All pensions and disability allowances under this Act or the Act, chapter 17 of 10 Edward VII (1910) [Act providing for the Pensioning of School Teachers by pension equal to half of total average salary during last five years, but not over $400], shall be paid from the said fund. 5. There shall be deducted from the Government allowance payable from and after July 1, 1922, to each teacher holding a license under authority of the Board of Education, and teaching in the public schools of New Brunswick, and paid into the teachers' pension fund, an amount equal to five per cent of such allowance, providing that no teacher shall take advantage of such deduction in reckoning minimum salary. 6. The Provincial Secretary-Treasurer shall make provision for and place to the credit of the said Teachers' Pension Fund from time to time such amounts from consolidated revenue as shall be sufficient, with the amounts received from teachers and others under this Act, to pay the claims of those entitled to pensions and disability allowances under this Act. 7. Subject to the provisions hereinafter stated, the provisions of this Act_shall be applicable to all teachers holding valid school licenses recognized by the Board of Education of New Brunswick, who are employed as inspectors, Normal Schoo instructors, local superintendents of public schools, secretaries to school boards, ana who are doing work directly connected with the Public schools and Public school service and not drawing teachers' pensions or disability allowances at the time of application. Any of such persons as above mentioned, to make the provisions of this Act applicable to such person, shall notify the chief superintendent of his or her desire to take advantage of the provisions of this Act, and shall pay into the said Teachers' Pension Fund half-yearly on August 1 and February 1 in each year, the maximum amount paid by any teacher under section 5. Any of the persons to whom the provisions of this Act may be made applicable under this section so engaged at the time of the passage of this Act, who may elect later to come under its provisions, may do so by paying a sum equivalent to that which he or she would have paid had he or she enrolled at the time of the passage of this Act, with interest at six per centum per annum. 8. Chapter 17 of the Acts, 10 Edward VII (1910) [providing maximum pensions of $400 for teachers having qualifications as under section 1 above] is hereby repealed, except that any pension that has been allowed under section 1 of the said chapter 17 shall be continued in accordance with the said chapter with the proviso, as provided for by section 1 of this Act, that none of said pensions shall be less than two hundred and fifty dollars per annum. Passed April 7, 1922. Licensing of Scalers Chapter 30.-1. This Act may be known and cited as the "New Brunswick Scalers' Act." 2. The word "log" includes all timber logs of every kind and size, whether round, square or otherwise. 3. The word "scaler" means any person employed or engaged in measuring logs for buildings or other purposes cut upon Crown lands or subject to any dues for the purposes of administration or revenue. 4. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint a Board of Examiners, consisting of three skilled persons, two of whom shall be the Chief Forester and Chief Scaler of the Fire Department of Lands and Mines, for the purpose of examining candidates for licenses to scale and measure timber cut on Crown lands or on timber on which the Crown has rights to exercise or dues to collect for administration or revenue purposes. 5. In addition to the duties aforesaid, the examiners shall perform the other duties assigned to them by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council; two members shall constitute a quorum. 6. Before entering on his duties, each examiner shall take, before a justice of the peace, the affidavit contained in Form A, which affidavit shall forthwith be transmitted to the Minister of Lands and Mines. 7. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall fix the fees to be paid, for their services, to the members of the board of examiners. He shall sanction regulations defining the method and programme of the examinations, as well as the other qualifications required of candidates for licenses as scalers and measurers of timber. 8. The Board of Examiners shall, for the purpose of holding examinations, sit at Fredericton on the second Wednesday in July and September, and also at such places and dates as may be fixed by the Minister of Lands and Mines, and announced in The Royal Gazette. (a) Candidates shall present themselves before the board on the days fixed and pay the sum of five dollars as an examination fee. (b) Candidates who hold Forest Ranger certificates under the Forest Act of (c) Candidates shall be British subjects, shall be over twenty-two years of age 9. The Minister of Lands and Mines may issue a scaler's license, according to Form B, to any person recommended by the Board of Examiners. 10. Before receiving the license mentioned in section 9, the candidate shall take the oath of office contained in Form C. Such oath shall be taken before a justice of the peace and be transmitted to the Minister of Lands and Mines. 11. No person, other than a scaler licensed under this section, shall make measurements of timber cut upon Crown lands or of timber upon which the Crown may have dues to receive for administrative or revenue purposes, unless the minister is satisfied that the services of a licensed scaler are not procurable; in which case he may issue a special license to a competent person, authorizing him to act as scaler after taking the prescribed oath. Such special license shall not extend beyond the first day of July next following its date. 12. Every scaler shall measure fairly and correctly, to the best of his ability, all timber he may be employed to measure under this section, making such deductions as are necessary to allow for defects and taking note of the timber rejected as worthless, commonly called "culls," the whole in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Department of Lands and Mines. 13. Licensed scalers shall submit their books and records of measurement for the inspection of the Crown Land Department officers or rangers when called upon to do so, and furnish any information and documents which the department or its rangers may require. 14. At the end of each season and not later than the first of July of each year, every scaler shall make a sworn return upon forms supplied by the Department of Lands and Mines or its agents. Such report shall contain the number of pieces of timber measured and accepted, and the quantity and quality of the timber, the lengths and diameters and also the number of the pieces rejected as culls. 15. Should any scaler neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this section or of any regulations made under it, the Minister of Lands and Mines may cancel his license. From and after the cancelling of such license, such scaler shall not scale or measure timber cut on Crown lands or on which the Crown may have dues to collect for the above-mentioned purposes, under penalty of a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, with costs, to be recovered on summary conviction before a magistrate, or, in default of payment, of imprisonment for a period of not less than one month or more than three months at the discretion of the convicting magistrate. 16. The license of every scaler who wilfully makes false measurements, illegally rejects timber, or makes false returns for the purpose of deceiving and defrauding the province, may be cancelled. After the cancelling of the license, no such scaler shall perform his duties as such, under penalty of a fine of not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, recoverable on summary conviction before a magistrate or, in default of payment, of imprisonment for a period of not less than one month or more than three months at the discretion of the convicting magistrate. Passed April 13, 1922. [Forms omitted.] Registration of Nurses [Chapter 62 amends the Act of 1916 to incorporate the N.B. Association of Graduate Nurses and to establish a provincial registration of qualified nurses, by authorizing the granting of a certificate to any duly qualified graduate nurse of any province in Canada or any state in the United States which has a similar provision for granting certificates to duly qualified graduate nurses of New Brunswick.] Passed April 13, 1922. QUEBEC FIRST SESSION Voting by Employees Chapter 25 [amends The Election Act, Revised Statutes, 1909, Article 325, by requiring that polling booths in provincial elections remain open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. instead of from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.]. Assented to March 21, 1922. Health of Employees in Factories Chapter 29.-1. This Act may be cited as the "Quebec Public Health Act." 20. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council, upon the recommendation of the minister given after consulting the Board of Health, may make regulations for the following purposes: 1. To insure the good sanitary condition of 5. To regulate the sanitary condition of houses, dairies, tories, cheese factories, slaughter-houses, stables, condition thereof; workshops, etc. butter facand insure the sanitary 7. To determine the manner of building and keeping slaughter-houses, places where food products are prepared or stored, as well as establishments which are not provided for by the provisions respecting industrial establishments, and to improve their sanitary condition. 97. 1. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the minister and after consultation of the Board of Health, make any regulations he may deem expedient for securing health in industrial establishments, prescribed by section fifth of chapter second of title seventh of the Revised Statutes, 1909 (articles 3829 to 3866 both inclusive), and relating to: (a) the supply of drinking water; (b) lighting; (c) the distance to be left between certain establishments and dwelling-houses, as well as the arrangement and details of the construction of rooms; (d) public space; (e) aëration and ventilation; (f) cleanliness and cleansing; (g) the removal and manner of disposing of dust, gas, vapour and waste produced in the course of work; (h) the system of drainage, including sinks, lavatories, urinals, privies or closets, and the method of disposing of waste liquids; (i) the temperature of the premises; (j) all other sanitary conditions which may arise in industrial establishments. 2. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may declare that one or more of such regulations shall only apply to one or more classes of establishments designated by him. 3. The said by-laws shall come into force fifteen days after their publication in the Quebec Official Gazette. 98. Every infraction of the provisions of this division or of the regulations made thereunder, shall render the offender liable to a fine of not more than two hundred dollars, and another fine of six dollars per day for every day during which the infraction lasts, after notice given by the sanitary physician or the municipal sanitary authority. 170. This Act shall come into force on the day fixed by proclamation of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. Assented to March 21, 1922. Inspection and Regulation of Mines Chapter 44.-1. Article 2212 of the Revised Statutes, 1909 [regulating the age of boys employed in mines, etc.], as amended by the Act 5 George V, chapter 35, section 5, is again amended, by replacing paragraph 4 thereof [regulating the employment of boys on machines, etc., in mines], by the following: "4. No male person under twenty years of age shall be employed to have charge of hoists or windlasses used for hoisting or lowering workmen in mines or in workings connected therewith. No male person under eighteen years of age shall be employed in mines, quarries or in immediate connection therewith, to have charge of machinery of any kind, used for hoisting, for lifting, for haulage or for drilling blasting holes. The transmission of signals and orders for putting such machines in motion shall not be entrusted to persons under the full age of sixteen years. 2. This Act shall come into force on the day of its sanction. Assented to March 8, 1922. Act." Vocational Education Chapter 54.-1. This Act may be cited under the title of "Professional Courses' 2. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may, by means of special annual subsidies, encourage the establishment and maintenance of professional courses in any school municipality. Such courses shall be under the control of the school corporations as defined by paragraph 3 of article 2521 of the Revised Statutes, 1909, relating to public instruction. 3. No subsidy shall be paid for the maintenance of professional courses in a public school, unless an equal amount, at least, has been spent for the same purposes in such school, whether such amount be supplied by corporations, companies or individuals. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the municipal corporations are authorized to pass by-laws providing for the granting and payment of the moneys which they are obliged to supply in order to have the right to the special subsidy aforesaid. 4. The professional courses shall be subject to the supervision and inspection of any official appointed for such purpose by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. 5. The appointment of the director and professors of professional courses shall be approved by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. 6. The subsidies shall be paid to the school corporations on a favourable report from the official in charge of the supervision and inspection of professional courses. 7. Public schools, as defined by paragraph 12 of article 2521 of the Revised Statutes, 1909, relating to public instruction, shall alone reap the advantages of this Act. 8. The subsidies authorized by this Act shall be paid out of the moneys annually appropriated by the Legislature for such purposes. 9. The Provincial Secretary shall be charged with the carrying out of this Act. 10. This Act shall come into force on the day of its sanction. Assented to March 8, 1922. Registration of Nurses [Chapter 131 redefines the qualifications required to entitle nurses to registration as members of the Association of Registered Nurses of the Province of Quebec.] Assented to March 21, 1922. SECOND SESSION Voting by Employees Chapter 19 [Act to amend the Quebec Election Act]. 6. Article 352 ["No person shall keep open any factory, works, workshop or shop between one and six o'clock in the afternoon of the polling day, in the divisions or wards of a city in which polls are held, under penalty of being guilty of an offence summarily triable and of being liable to a fine of $100."] of the Revised Statutes, 1909, is amended by replacing the words: one and six o'clock," in the second line thereof, by the words "two and seven o'clock." 66 8. Article 354 ["1. At five o'clock the poll and the voting shall be closed and an entry thereof made in the poll-book."] of the Revised Statutes, 1909, is amended by replacing the word "five," in the first line thereof, by the word six." 12. This Act shall come into force on the day of its sanction. Assented to December 29, 1922. Licensing of Chauffeurs Chapter 30.-An Act to amend the Act respecting Motor Vehicles. 6. The following articles are inserted in the said Statutes [Revised Statutes, 1909] after article 1405 [prescribing penalties for offenses under Act]:— 1405a. 1. If, in the event of a violation of article 1419 [regulating the speed of automobiles on public highways], the speed admitted by the offender or for which he is condemned exceeds by ten miles an hour the maximum speed allowed in such case by article 1419 [i.e., 9 miles an hour within a city, town, village, or 15 miles on public highway where contiguous territory is closely built up], the offender, in addition to the penalties imposed by article 1405 [i.e., fine or imprisonment], shall lose his license as an operator or chauffeur, according to the case, for the remainder of the current license year, and no other license as an operator or chauffeur shall be issued to him during the same license year. |