Certified copies of Acts to be application. one like copy of the said Acts in the English and French languages to the Registrar General of Canada. R.S., c. 2, s. 4. 6. The Clerk of the Parliaments shall also furnish certified copies of any of the Acts hereinbefore mentioned to any person furnished on applying therefor, and upon every such certified copy, shall, before delivering it, receive from such person a fee of two Fee thereon. dollars, in addition to the cost of the printed copy, if a printed copy is furnished, or in addition to a fee of ten cents for every hundred words in such copy, if the copy furnished is not printed. 3 E. VII., c. 65, s. 1. Copies for public service. Certificate to be in 7. All certified copies required for the public service shall be obtained from the Clerk of the Parliaments through the Secretary of State of Canada. R.S., c. 2, s. 6. 8. The Clerk of the Parliaments shall insert at the foot of serted at the every such copy so required to be certified, a written certificate, foot of every duly signed and authenticated by him, to the effect that it is a true copy of the Act passed by the Parliament of Canada, or by the Legislature of the late province of Canada, or of the late province of Upper Canada or Lower Canada (as the case may be) in the session thereof held in the copy of Acts required to be certified. year of His Majesty's reign, and assented to in His Majesty's name, by the Governor General, or (as the case may be), on the day of day of R.S., c. 2, s. 7. Certified copy of every Act to be PRINTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE STATUTES. 9. The Clerk of the Parliaments shall furnish the King's Printer with a certified of copy Act of the Parliament of every furnished to Canada as soon as the same has received the Royal Assent, or if the Bill has been reserved, as soon as the Royal Assent thereto has been proclaimed in Canada. R.S., c. 2, s. 8. King's Acts to be printed in 10. The Acts of the Parliament of Canada shall be printed two separate in two separate volumes, the first of which shall contain such of volumes; the said Acts and such orders in council and proclamations or shall contain. other documents, and such Acts of the Parliament of the United what each Copies of each volume Kingdom, as the Governor in Council deems to be of a public and general nature or interest in Canada, and directs to be inserted in the said volume, and the second volume shall contain the remaining Acts of the session, and shall be printed after the first volume. 2. Copies of the said volumes shall be printed in the English to be printed and French languages respectively, by the King's Printer, who in English shall, as soon after the close of each session as is practicable, respectively. deliver, or send by post or otherwise, in the most economical manner, the proper number of copies of either one or of both and French 16 volumes volumes to the persons hereinafter mentioned, respectively, and Distribution. in either or both languages as he is directed, that is to say: ment. (a) The members of the two Houses of Parliament respec- To members tively, who shall each be entitled to receive such number of of Parlia copies as is, from time to time, directed by joint resolution of the said Houses, or, in default of such resolution, as is directed by the Governor in Council; ments. (b) Such public departments, administrative bodies and To departofficers throughout Canada as the Governor in Council, from time to time, directs. 50-51 V., c. 2, s. 1. assented to 11. Whenever any Bill receives the Royal Assent during and As to bills before the termination of any session of Parliament, the King's during a Printer shall, if so directed by the Secretary of State of session. Canada, cause distribution of such Act to be made, to the same persons and in like manner and numbers as herein before provided with respect to the Acts of any session; or such Act may, by order of the Governor in Council, be published in the Canada Gazette, and printed afterwards in the proper volume of the Statutes. R.S., c. 2, s. 10. transmitted 12. The Secretary of State of Canada shall, within fifteen List to be days after the close of each session of Parliament, transmit to by the Secrethe King's Printer a list of the public departments, administra- tary of State. tive bodies and officers to whom the first and second volumes respectively, of the Statutes of such session are to be transmitted as aforesaid, and shall also, as occasion requires, furnish him And orders with copies of all orders in council made under the provisions in council. of this Act. R.S., c. 2, s. 11. if copies 13. If, after the distribution of the printed Acts, any copies Distribution, remain in the hands of the King's Printer, he may deliver any remain. number thereof, to any person, by order of the Governor in Council, on notice thereof by the Secretary of State of Canada, or to the members of the Senate or of the House of Commons, on the order of the Speaker of the said Houses respectively. R.S., c. 2, s. 12. 14. The Statutes shall be printed in royal octavo form, on How Statutes fine paper, in small pica type, thirty-two ems by fifty-five ems, shall be printed and including marginal notes in minion, such notes referring to the bound. year and chapter of previous Statutes, whenever the text amends, repeals or changes the enactments of former years; and shall be half-bound in cloth with backs of white sheep skin and lettered, with the exception of a certain number to be named by the Standing Committee on Printing, which shall be bound in half-calf and gilt-lettered, and they shall be arranged for distribution in such manner, either by the binding of the public general Acts and Acts of a local or private character in separate volumes, or by binding them together 2 17 in Report by to number of expense incurred by him. Report to To be made by promoter. in the same volumes, with separate indexes, or otherwise, as the Governor in Council deems expedient. R.S., c. 2, s. 13. 15. The King's Printer shall, before the opening of each session of Parliament, make a report in triplicate to the Governor General showing,— (a) the number of copies of the Acts of each session which have been printed and distributed by him since the then last session; (b) the departments, administrative bodies, officers and persons to whom the same have been distributed, the number of copies delivered to each, and under what authority; (c) the number of copies of the Acts of each session then remaining in his hands; (d) a detailed account of the expenses by him actually incurred in carrying this Act into effect, so that provision may be made for defraying the same after such account has been duly audited and allowed. 2. Such report shall be laid before each House of Parliament within fifteen days after the opening of each session thereof. R.S., c. 2, s. 14. PAYMENT FOR THE PRINTING OF PRIVATE BILLS. 16. Every person who obtains an Act of a private or personal character shall pay to the King's Printer the cost of printing five hundred copies of such Act in the English language, and two hundred and fifty copies thereof in the French language. R.S., c. 2, s. 15. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. 18 CHAPTER 3. An Act respecting the Governor General. 1. This Act may be cited as the Governor General's Act. Short title. General to 2. The Governor General of Canada for the time being, or Governor other the chief executive officer or administrator carrying on be a corpora the Government of Canada, on behalf and in the name of the tion sole. King, by whatsoever title he is designated, and his successors, shall be a corporation sole. R.S., c. 3, s. 1. taken. 3. All bonds, recognizances and other instruments by law Bonds, etc., required to be taken to the Governor General in his public how to be capacity, shall be taken to him and his successors by his name of office, and may be sued for and recovered by him or his successors by his or their name of office as such. representa 2. Such bonds, recognizances or other instruments shall how- Not to vest ever in no case go to or vest in the personal representatives of in personal the Governor General, chief executive officer or administrator tive. of the Government in whose name they were so taken. R.S., c. 3, s. 1. Governor to 4. There shall be payable yearly, and pro rata for any period Salary of less than a year, to the Governor General of Canada for the be £10,000 time being, a salary of ten thousand pounds sterling, equal to sterling. and of the value of forty-eight thousand six hundred and sixtysix dollars and sixty-three cents. 2. Such salary shall be payable out of the Consolidated Second Revenue Fund of Canada, and shall form the second charge C. R. Fund. charge on thereon. R.S., c. 3, s. 2. OTTAWA: Printed by SAMUEL EDWARD DAWSON, Law Printer to the King's most Excellent Majesty. |