REVISED THE QUEEN'S PRINTER OF A SCOTIA. STATUTES OF NOVA SCOTIA. FIFTH SERIES. PREPARED BY OTTO S. WEEKS, JAMES W. JOHNSTON, J. WILBERFORCE LONGLEY, Commissioners for Revising and Consolidating the Statutes of the Province, AND BENJAMIN RUSSELL, Secretary to Commissioners. ARRANGED, PREPARED FOR THE PRESS, AND INDEXED BY JAMES G. FOSTER, JOHN T. ROSS. HALIFAX: THE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS AND MINES, 1884. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly as follows: 1. The Governor-in-Council shall cause the general Acts passed during the present Session to be arranged under appropriate parts and chapters, with the following words prefixed, that is to say: "An Act for Revising and Consolidating the General Statutes of Nova Scotia. Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:" And the same shall be published in consolidated form, with a copious index, as soon as the same can be conveniently done; and when the same shall be so published the Governor shall by proclamation declare the Acts so consolidated to be in force, and the same, or so much thereof as shall not then be in operation, shall thereupon and thereafter become and be in force. 2. The Act passed during the present Session, entitled, " An Act to Improve the Administration of Justice," to be cited as "The Nova Scotia Judicature Act, 1884," shall come into operation at the time. mentioned in section 2 of said Act; and notwithstanding anything in the preceding section of this Act, Chapters 89 and 94 of the Revised Statutes, Fourth Series, and all amendments thereof, shall continue to be in full force until the said Judicature Act shall come into operation, after which all parts of said Chapters 89 and 94, and all other chapters of the Revised Statutes, Fourth Series, and the amendments thereto, or any Acts passed during the present Session inconsistent with said Judicature Act or any Rules made under the authority of said Act, shall cease to be in operation, and be no longer the law of the Province, and no part of said Chapter 94 or any other Act or chapter inconsistent with the said Judicature Act or any Rule made under the authority of said Act, shall be published in the Consolidated Statutes, Fifth Series. 3. The chapters shall be arranged in such order as the Governorin-Council shall see fit, and sections may be re-numbered; and wherever sections of such chapters or of any Act are referred to by number, and wherever Acts or chapters are referred to by title, such changes may be made in the references to such numbers or titles as may be requisite to preserve the sense and meaning of the enactment; and wherever the same provision is repeated in two or more different chapters, the saine may be omitted from one or more of such chapters, provided that such provision shall be retained in at least one of such chapters. 4. Chapters of such Consolidated Statutes may be brought into earlier operation by being published in the Royal Gazette by order of the Governor-in-Council, and chapters so published shall take effect from such publication, or from the time otherwise expressed in any proclamation of the Governor respecting the coming into operation of the same. 5. Acts passed during the present Session, to which the assent of the Governor has been or shall be given separately, shall come into operation from the time when by law or by the provisions of said Acts the same are appointed to come in force; but nevertheless such of said Acts as are of a general character shall be arranged among and incorporated with the Consolidated Statutes, under their respective parts and chapters. All Acts in force on the first day of the present Session, which shall not have since expired, or have been repealed by some such separate Act as mentioned in the fifth section, or by some chapter published in advance as mentioned in the fourth section, shall continue in force, subject to any amendments which may have been made thereto by any separate Act or chapter published in advance, until the publication of the Consolidated Statutes by proclamation as aforesaid, and the Acts so continued in force shall upon and after the publication of the Consolidated Statutes be repealed and cease to have any force or effect. 7. The following chapters published in Appendix B. of the Fourth Series shall be omitted from the Consolidated Statutes, and not be published, as being exclusively within the jurisdiction of the Dominion Parliament :- Chapter 22 of Revised Statutes, Third Series, "Of the Penitentiary." Chapter 23, Third Series, "Of Sable, Saint Paul's, and Scatterie Islands, and of Light Houses." Chapter 32, Third Series, "Of an Electric Telegraph for Military Purposes." Chapter 75, Third Series, "Of Shipping and Seaman." Chapter 79, Third Series, "Of Pilotage, Harbors, and Harbor Masters." Chapter 82, Third Series, "Of Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes." Chapter 83, Third Series, " Of Currency," except section 5, which shall be incorporated in Chapter of the Consolidated Statutes. Chapter 94, Third Series, " Of the Coast and Deep Sea Fisheries." Chapter 165, Third Series, " Of Combinations of Workmen." Chapter 5 of the Acts of 1865, " An Act to amend Chapter 128 of the Revised Statutes."" Chapter 17 of the Acts of 1866, entitled, " An Act to Enforce the Taking of the Oath of Allegiance." Chapter 14 of the Acts of 1867, "Of Refining of Sugar and the Manufacture of Tobacco." All other chapters printed and published in the said Appendix, not incorporated in their proper place in the Consolidated Statutes, shall be published together in the form of an appendix thereto. Chapter 70, Third Series, " Of Railroads," shall not be published either in the Consolidated Statutes or any appendix thereto; but this omission shall not affect any existing railway charters, nor any contracts now existing in relation to railway construction in Nova Scotia. 8. Nothing herein contained shall affect or include local or private Acts. |