CHAP. 1. An Act for revising and consolidating the Laws of the A. D. 1877. Province of British Columbia. [18th April, 1877.] WHEREAS it is expedient that measures should be adopted for Preamble. revising and consolidating a new edition of the laws of the Province of British Columbia, and for printing the same and for omitting in the re-publication of such edition all such Acts, Ordinances, and Proclamations, or parts of the same, as have expired, been repealed, or had their effect: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows: Commissioners to laws. 1. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to Authorizing the issue a Commission under the Great Seal to three persons constitut- appointment of ing them Commissioners for revising and consolidating a new edition compile and print of the laws of the Province of British Columbia, and from time to time, in case of the death, or refusal, or incapacity to act, of any or either of the said Commissioners, to appoint some other person or persons to be a Commissioner or Commissioners as aforesaid, to accomplish the purposes of this Act. 2. The said Commissioners shall be and they are hereby fully Commissioners to authorized and empowered to prepare and arrange for publication prepare and arrange laws, and omit all the said new edition of the Acts, Ordinances, and Proclamations in repealed laws, &c. force in the Province of British Columbia at the time of the revision and consolidation thereof, to omit all such Acts, Ordinances, and Proclamations, and parts of Acts, Ordinances, and Proclamations which have expired, been repealed, or had their effect, and all Acts, Ordinances, and Proclamations, repealing any or any parts of any Acts, Ordinances, and Proclamations, as well as the Acts, Ordinances, and Proclamations, and parts of Acts, Ordinances, and Proclamations repealed, and the Schedules of all such repealed or repealing Acts, Ordinances, and Proclamations, and to alter the numbers of the said Acts, Ordinances, and Proclamations, and the sections thereof. Remuneration to 3. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to issue his warrant to the proper officer for any sum or sums as he Commissioners, &c. A. D. 1877. Commission to be printed with Sta tutes. Short title. may think fit, as a remuneration for the said Commissioners, and also for such further charges and expenses as shall have been incurred, laid out, and expended in the printing and binding of the said revised edition of the said Acts, Ordinances, and Proclamations, or incident thereto. 4. Any Commission or Commissions which shall be issued under this Act shall be printed with the said Statutes. 5. This Act may be cited as the "Consolidated Statutes Act, 1877." A. D. 1872. Form of enacting clause. Clauses to follow in concise form. The interpretation clauses to apply to all Acts hereafter passed. HE CHAP. 2. An Act respecting the Statutes. [27th March, 1872.] ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, enacts as follows:— Form of Enacting. 1. The following words may be inserted in the preambles of Statutes, and shall indicate the authority by virtue of which they are passed: "Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of "the Legislative Assembly of the Province of British Columbia, "enacts as follows:" 2. After the insertion of the words aforesaid, which shall follow the setting forth of the considerations or reasons upon which the law is grounded, and which shall with these considerations or reasons constitute the entire preamble,—the various clauses of the Statute shall follow in a concise and enunciative form. Interpretation. 3. This section, and the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth sections of this Act, and each provision thereof, shall extend and apply to every Act passed in the Session held in this thirty-fifth year of Her Majesty's reign, and in any future Session of the Legislature of British Columbia, except in so far as the provision is inconsistent with the intention and object of such Act, or the interpretation which such provision would give to any word, expression, or clause is inconsistent with the context, and except in so far as any provision thereof is in any such Act declared not applicable thereto; nor shall the omission in any Act of a declaration that the : "Interpretation Act, 1872," shall apply thereto, be construed to prevent its so applying, although such express declaration may be inserted in some other Act or Acts of the same Session. Act. A. D. 1872. 4. The Clerk of the Legislative Assembly shall endorse on every Date of assent to be Act of the Legislature of British Columbia, immediately after the endorsed on every title of such Act, the day, month, and year when the same was by the Lieutenant-Governor assented to, or reserved; and in the latter case the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly shall also endorse thereon the day, month, and year when the Lieutenant-Governor has signified, either by speech or message to the Legislative Assembly, or by Proclamation, that the same was laid before the Governor-General in Council, and that the Governor-General was pleased to assent to the same; and such endorsement shall be taken Effect of such ento be a part of such Act, and the date of such assent or signification, dorsement. as the case may be, shall be the date of the commencement of the Act, if no later commencement be therein provided. ed during the Ses 5. Any Act of the Legislature of British Columbia may be Act may be amendamended, altered, or repealed by any Act to be passed in the same sion in which it Session thereof. passed. 6. In construing this or any Act of the Legislature of British How enactments Columbia, unless it be otherwise provided, or there be something shall be construed. in the context or other provisions thereof indicating a different meaning, or calling for a different construction: (1.) The law is to be considered as always speaking, and when Application of exever any matter or thing is expressed in the present tense pressions in present the same is to be applied to the circumstances as they arise, so that effect may be given to each Act, and every part tense. (2.) The word "shall" is to be construed as imperative, and the "Shall"and"may." word "may" as permissive: (3.) Whenever the word "herein" is used in any section of an "Herein." Act, it is to be understood to relate to the whole Act and not to that section only. 7. Subject to the limitations in the sixth section of this Act, Interpretation of in every Act of the Legislature of British Columbia to which this certain words. section applies: (1.) The words "Her Majesty," "the Queen," or "the Crown," "Her Majesty," &c. shall mean Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, Sovereigns of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland: (2.) The words "Lieutenant-Governor" shall mean the Lieuten- "Lieutenant-Goant-Governor for the time being of British Columbia, or vernor," &c. other the Chief Executive Officer or Administrator for the A. D. 1872. "Lieutenant-Governor in Council,' &c. "United Kingdom," "United States," names of places, &c. Proclamation. Lieutenant-Governor acting by Proclamation. "County" or "District." Number and gender. "Person." "Writing," "written." "Month." "Holiday." time being carrying on the Government of British Columbia, by whatever title he is designated: (3.) The words "Lieutenant-Governor in Council" shall mean the Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia, or person administering the Government of British Columbia for the time being, acting by and with the advice of the Executive Council for British Columbia: (4.) The words "the United Kingdom" shall mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and the words "the United States" shall mean the United States of America: And generally, the name commonly applied to any country, place, body, corporation, society, officer, functionary, person, party, or thing, shall mean such country, place, body, corporation, society, officer, functionary, person, party, or thing, although such name be not the formal and extended desig nation thereof: (5.) The word "Proclamation" means a Proclamation under the Great Seal, and the expression "Great Seal" means the Great Seal of British Columbia: (6.) When the Lieutenant-Governor is authorized to do any act by Proclamation, such Proclamation is to be understood to be a Proclamation issued under an order of the LieutenantGovernor in Council, but it shall not be necessary that it be mentioned in the Proclamation that it is issued under such order: (7.) The words "County or District" includes two or more Counties or Districts united for purposes to which the enactment relates: (8.) Words importing the singular number or the masculine gender only, shall include more persons, parties, or things of the same kind than one, and females as well as males, and the converse: (9.) The word "person" shall include any body corporate or politic, or party, and the heirs, executors, administrators or other legal representatives of such person, to whom the context can apply according to law: (10.) The words "writing," "written," or any term of like (11.) The word "month" shall mean a calendar month: |