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CHAP. 2.

An Act respecting the Act further securing the Independence of Parliament,

W

[Assented to 28th April, 1877.]

HEREAS several persons who have, since the passing Preamble. of the Act thirty-one Victoria, chapter twenty-five, inti- 31 v. c. 25. tuled "An Act further securing the Independence of Parliament," been elected as members of the House of Commons, acting in the bond fide belief that they were or continued to be qualified and capable of sitting and voting as members thereof, may have by sitting or voting therein unwittingly rendered themselves liable to pecuniary penalties or forfeitures under the provisions of the said Act; and whereas it is proper to relieve such persons from such pecuniary penalties or forfeitures: Now, therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

belief of

qualification.

1. Any person who has, at any time since the passing of Indemnificathe said Act, been elected a member of the House of Com- cation for having sat or mons, and who, acting under the bona fide belief that he voted under was or continued to be qualified and capable of sitting or the bonâ fide voting as a member thereof, has sat or voted therein, shall be and is hereby indemnified, exonerated, freed and discharged from all pecuniary penalties or forfeitures whatsoever (if any) which may have been incurred by him by reason of having so sat or voted at any time up to the end of the present Session of Parliament.

suits for

2. This Act may be pleaded as a bar and discharge to any This Act to action, suit or proceeding pending or which may be brought be a bar to against any such person, for any such pecuniary penalty or penalty. forfeiture as aforesaid.

committed

3. Nothing in this Act contained shall be held in any Not to apply wise to indemnify, exonerate, free or discharge any person to offences from any pecuniary penalty or forfeiture, if any, to which after present he may render himself liable by sitting or voting in the Session. House of Commons at any time after the end of the present Session of Parliament.

4. Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to affect Nor to affect any subsisting disqualification or incapacity to sit or vote in any then subsisting disthe House of Commons, or to validate any void election qualification. thereto, or to affect the vacation of any seat therein, or in any wise to interfere with the operation of the fifth section of the said Act.

CHAP.

Preamble.

Lieutenant

CHAP. 3.

An Act respecting the Great Seals of the Provinces of
Canada, other than Ontario and Quebec.

WE

[Assented to 28th April, 1877.]

HEREAS doubts have arisen as to the power of appointing and altering the Great Seals of the Provinces other than Ontario and Quebec, and also as to the validity of instruments sealed with the Seal heretofore used as the Great Seal of the Province of Nova Scotia; and whereas it is right that all the Provinces should be upon the same footing with respect to their Great Seals; And whereas the Legislature of the Province of Nova Scotia has passed an Act empowering the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to alter the Great Seal, and also an Act validating all instruments sealed with the seal heretofore used as the Great Seal; and whereas the Legislative Council and Assembly of Nova Scotia have passed Addresses to Her Majesty, praying for legislation in the Parliament of the United Kingdom to the same intent; and whereas it is expedient, so far as the Parliament of Canada may have power to act in the premises, to remove the said doubts: Therefore Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts and declares as follows:-

1. The Lieutenant-Governor of each Province in Council Governors in has the power of appointing and of altering from time to appoint and time the Great Seal of the Province.

Council may

alter Great

Seals.

Instruments

2. All instruments sealed with the seal heretofore used as

bearing former Great the Great Seal of the Province of Nova Scotia are hereby Seal of Nova declared to have been and to be legal and valid, notwithstandScotia valid. ing any doubt which may exist as to such seal being the Great Seal.

CHAP

CHAP. 4.

An Act to extend to the Province of Prince Edward
Island, certain Criminal Laws now in force in other
Provinces of Canada.

[Assented to 28th April, 1877.]

HER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Preamble.

Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as

follows:

Schedule

1. The Acts of the Parliament of Canada passed in Acts in the former Sessions of the said Parliament, and mentioned in extended to the Schedule to this Act, are and each of them is hereby Prince Edextended to and shall have force and effect of law within ward Island. the l'rovince of Prince Edward Island, save and except so far only as any provision of any such Act may be therein declared to be applicable to one or more only of the Provinces composing the Dominion at the time of the passing of such Act and mentioned therein.

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Provinces of

2. In case any of the said Acts, or any enactment or pro- Such Acts to vision therein, has force and effect in relation to one of the have effect in Provinces comprising the Dominion at the time of its pass- ward Island ing, in a sense peculiar to that Province and different from as in all the the sense in which it has force and effect in relation to all Canada as a the said Provinces as a whole, such Act, enactment or pro- whole. vision shall have force and effect within and in relation to the said Province of Prince Edward Island, in the last mentioned sense only.

3. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as a declara- As to effect of tion that any of the said Acts or any part thereof, had not, this Act. the passing of or has not or would not have, without the passing of this Act, force or effect in or in relation to the Province of Prince Edward Island.

retroactive

4. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to give a retro- Acts extended active effect to any of the Acts hereby extended to the said not to have a Province, or to any enactment or provision therein, so as to effect. make any act done before it comes into force a crime or offence if it would not be so without this Act, or to alter the punishment for any crime or offence committed before it comes into force; but the trial for such crime or offence, and the procedure respecting it after the said time, shall be had or continued under the provisions of the Acts hereby extended in and by the court, magistrate or tribunal, in or before which the case may be pending: and the Supreme Court of the Power of said Province, and other courts, or magistrates and tri- existing bunals now existing or hereafter to be constituted by the offenders unLegislature

Courts to try

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