Transference of employees

Civil Service
Commissioner

Assistants

Salaries, etc.

(d) Class 4 shall consist of second class clerks, that is to say, clerks other than first class clerks and having administrative, executive and technical duties which are of the same nature but of less importance and responsibility than those of the first class clerks, including stenographers and typists of ability and experience, who act as cashiers or do other special work in addition to their ordinary work;

(e) Class 5 shall consist of third class clerks, that is to say, clerks performing duties of minor importance and of a routine character, and stenographers and typists not included in Class 4;

(f) Class 6 shall consist of fourth class employees, that is to say, the Provincial Police, gaol guards, asylum attendants, messengers, janitors, caretakers, labourers, day employees, process issuers, sheriffs' bailiffs, and all other employees receiving less than six hundred dollars per annum or fifty dollars per month.

(2) Each class shall be divided into such grades as may be decided upon by Order in Council upon the recommendation of the President of the Council on the report. of the Civil Service Commissioner.

(3) Any employee may be transferred from one class to another upon the recommendation of the President of the Council on the report of the Civil Service Commissioner. [1918, c. 16, s. 3; 1922, c. 4, s. 9(2).]

Civil Service Commissioner.

4. (1) There shall be an officer, to be called the Civil Service Commissioner, appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

(2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint such clerks or other assistants in the office of the Civil Service Commissioner as may be deemed necessary, and may authorize the employment by the Civil Service Commissioner of such expert and special assistants from time to time as may be deemed necessary in the discharge of the duties of the Civil Service Commissioner.

(3) The salary of the Civil Service Commissioner and the salaries and other remuneration of the clerks and other persons employed by the Civil Service Commissioner shall be fixed by Order in Council upon the recommendation of the President of the Council and shall be charged to and paid out of the general revenue fund of the Province. [1918, c. 16, s. 4; 1922, c. 4, s. 9(2).]

be

5. The duties of the Civil Service Commissioner shall Duties of

(a) to investigate the conditions of the various depart-
ments and to make such recommendations as he
may deem proper for the improvement of the
organization and the business methods therein;
(b) to report to the President of the Council such
changes as he may deem proper in any department,
with a view to systematizing the work of the
department;

(c) to report with regard to the grading, classification
and scale of salaries in schedule form for Classes 2,
3, 4 and 5, which schedule shall also provide for
fixed increases in salary until a maximum amount
is reached, and for promotions;

(d) to frame rules for the conduct and discipline of
the employees in their respective offices;

(e) to report to the President of the Council, when
directed so to do, upon any scheme providing for
superannuation of employees or the payment of
any allowance upon retirement from the Public
Service;

(f) to recommend to the President of the Council such
action as will promote the co-ordination of the
work in the different departments or the reduction.
or re-organization of the staff of any department
with a view to greater economy and efficiency in
administration;

(g) to inquire into and report upon any other matter
affecting the administrative methods of any depart-
ment or upon the conduct of the employees therein.
whenever requested by the Minister or instructed.
by the President of the Council so to do;

(h) to hold inquiries and to investigate suggestions,
complaints and recommendations with respect to
any department or any employee connected there-
with, when so directed by the President of the
Council;

(i) to consider and report upon any suggested or
desirable changes in the Statutes or regulations
affecting any department when so directed by the
President of the Council,

and such other duties as may be assigned to him by the
Lieutenant Governor in Council.

[1918, c. 16, s. 5; 1922, c. 4, s. 9(2).]

Civil Service
Commissioner

precedent to

6. No person shall be appointed to any office, clerkship Conditions or other position in Classes 2, 3, 4 and 5 of the Public appointments Service save upon the recommendation of the President

Report of
Civil Service

of the Council, nor until the Civil Service Commissioner has certified in writing that the person to be appointed is duly qualified for that position.

[1918, c. 16, s. 6; 1922, c. 4, s. 9(2).]

7. The Civil Service Commissioner shall prepare annually Commissioner and present to the Lieutenant Governor in Council on the first day of January in each year a report upon the performance of the duties of his office during the preceding year, and the report shall be laid before the Legislative Assembly at the next ensuing session of the Legislature.

[1918, c. 16, s. 7; 1922, c. 4, s. 9(2).]

CHAPTER 10.

An Act respecting the Department of the
Attorney General.

HIS 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 may be cited as "The Attorney General's Short title Act." [1906, c. 6, s. 1.]

Organization and Functions of Department.

2. There shall be a department of the Public Service of Organization the Province to be called the Department of the Attorney General, over which the member of the Executive Council appointed by the Lieutenant Governor under the Seal of the Province to discharge the functions of the Attorney General for the time being shall preside; and the said Attorney General shall ex officio be His Majesty's Attorney General in and for the Province. [1906, c. 6, s. 2.]

3. The duties of the Attorney General shall be as Duties of follows:

(a) He shall be the official legal adviser of the
Lieutenant Governor;

(b) He shall see that the administration of public
affairs is in accordance with law;

(c) He shall have the superintendence of all matters
connected with the administration of justice in the
Province within the powers or jurisdiction of the
Legislative Assembly or Government of the
Province;

(d) He shall advise upon the legislative acts and pro-
ceedings of the Legislative Assembly of the Province
and generally advise the Crown upon all matters
of law referred to him by the Crown;

(e) He shall be entrusted with the powers and charged
with the duties which belong to the Attorney
General and Solicitor General of England by law or
usage so far as the same powers and duties are
applicable to the Province; and also with the powers
and duties which belong to the office of the Attorney
General and Solicitor General in respect of the
laws of Canada and of the Province to be admin-
istered and carried into effect by the Government
of the Province;

Attorney
General

(f) He shall advise the heads of the several departments of the Government upon all matters of law connected with them respectively;

(g) He shall be charged with the settlement of all instruments issued under the Seal of the Province; (h) He shall have regulation and conduct of all litigation for or against the Crown or any public department in respect of any subjects within the authority or jurisdiction of the Legislative Assembly;

(i) He shall be charged generally with such duties as may be at any time assigned by law or by the Lieutenant Governor in Council to the Attorney General of the Province;

(j) He shall be charged with the conduct of the matters hereinafter set forth, the enumeration of which, however, shall not be taken to restrict the general nature of any provision in this Act contained: (i) The supervision of the administration of the law respecting intoxicating liquors;

(ii) The supervision of the administration of the law governing titles to real property in the Province;

(iii) The recommendation of the appointment of and the giving of advice to sheriffs, registrars, judicial officers, justices of the peace, coroners, notaries public and commissioners for oaths; (iv) The consideration of applications for bail and attendance thereon;

(v) The consideration and argument of Crown
Cases Reserved;

(vi) The hearing of applications for the granting
of fiats regarding petitions of right, criminal
informations, indictments, actions to set aside
Crown patents, actions to recover fines and
penalties, and other actions of a like nature;
(vii) The consideration of applications for the
remission of fines and penalties;

(viii) The appointment of counsel for the conduct of criminal business;

(ix) The arrangement of the sittings of the courts of justice in the Province and the regulation of the work of official court reporters;

(x) The supervision of the offices of the courts of law in the Province;