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Consolidated
Ordinances

not to be

deemed new law

Construction

where the

Ordinances

may and shall remain and continue as if no such repeal had taken place and so far as necessary may and shall be continued, prosecuted, enforced and proceeded with under the said Consolidated Ordinances of the Territories and other Ordinances and laws having force in the Territories so far as applicable thereto and subject to the provisions of the said several Ordinances and laws.

9. The said Consolidated Ordinances of the Territories shall not be held to operate as new laws but shall be construed and have effect as a consolidation of the law as contained in the said Ordinances and parts of Ordinances so repealed and for which the said Consolidated Ordinances of the Territories are substituted; and the Legislative Assembly is not to be deemed to have adopted the construction which may by judicial decision or otherwise have been placed upon the language of any of the Ordinances included amongst the said Consolidated Ordinances of the Territories.

(2) The various provisions in the Consolidated Ordinances same in effect corresponding to and substituted for the provisions of the Oras the repealed dinances and parts of Ordinances so repealed shall, where they are the same in effect as those of Ordinances and parts of Ordinances so repealed, be held to operate retrospectively as well as prospectively and to have been passed upon the days respectively upon which the Ordinances and parts of Ordinances so repealed came into effect.

Construction in case they differ from the repealed Ordinances

Reference to repealed Ordinances in former Ordinances

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(3) If upon any point the provisions of the said Consolidated Ordinances are not in effect the same as those of the repealed Ordinances and parts of Ordinances for which they are substituted then as respects all transactions, matters and things subsequent to the time when the said Consolidated Ordinances take effect the provisions contained in them shall prevail but as respects all transactions, matters and things anterior to the said time the provisions of the said repealed Ordinances and parts of Ordinances shall prevail.

10. Any reference in any former Ordinance remaining in force or in any instrument or document to any Ordinance or enactment so repealed shall after the Consolidated Ordinances take effect be held as regards any subsequent transaction, matter or thing to be a reference to the enactinents in the Consolidated Ordinances having the same effect as such repealed Ordinance or enactment.

11. The insertion of any such Ordinance in the said scheOrdinance in dule II shall not be construed as a declaration that such Ordinance or any part of it was or was not in force immediately before the coming into force of the said Consolidated Ordi

Schedule II

Copies printed by Queen's

nances.

12. Copies of the Consolidated Ordinances printed by the Printer to be Queen's Printer from the amended Roll so deposited shall be received as evidence of the said Consolidated Ordinances in all courts and places whatsoever.

evidence

13. The Consolidated Ordinances shall be distributed in Distribution of copies such numbers and to such persons only as the Lieutenant Governor in Council may direct.

14. This Ordinance shall be printed with the said Consoli- This dated Ordinances and shall be subject to the same rules of construction as the said Consolidated Ordinances.

Ordinance to be printed with Consolidated Ordinances

15. Any Chapter of the said Consolidated Ordinances may citation of be cited and referred to in any Ordinance or proceeding what- Consolidated ever either by its title as an Ordinance or by its short title or by using the expression "The Consolidated Ordinance respecting-" (adding the remainder of the title at the beginning of the particular chapter), or by using the expression "The Consolidated Ordinances 1898, Chapter (adding the number of the particular chapter printed in the copies printed by the Queen's Printer.)

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THE

NORTH-WEST TERRITORIES ACT

Chapter 50, Revised Statutes of Canada

As amended up to the date of the coming into force of
The Consolidated Ordinances 1898.

New Sections from amending Acts have the numbers bracketed thus: (1). References at the end of sections or clauses indicate that the section or clause was amended to read as shewn, by the enactment referred to.

An Act respecting the North-West Territories.

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ER Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

SHORT TITLE.

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1. This Act may be cited as The North-West Territories Short title Act."

INTERPRETATION.

2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,

Interpretation

(a) The expression "Territories" means the North-West "Territories" Territories, as defined in this Act;

"Governor "

(b) The expression "The Lieutenant Governor" means the Lieutenant Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Territories;

"Lieutenant Governor in

defined

(c) The expression "Lieutenant Governor in Council means the Lieutenant Governor of the Territories, by and with the Council" advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Territories, or in conjunction with the Executive Council of the Territories, as the case may be; 60-61 Vic., c. 28, s. 2.

(d) The expression "Supreme Court" means the Supreme Supreme Court of the North-West Territories:

Court

(e) The expression "intoxicating liquor" means and includes Intoxicating all spirits, strong waters, spirituous liquors, wines, fermented or compounded liquors or intoxicating fluids;

liquor

"Intoxicant"

"Legislative Assembly defined

Territories defined

Lieutenant
Governor

His powers

Administrator

Oaths to be taken

Salary

Travelling

allowances

(f) The expression "intoxicant" includes opium or any preparation thereof, and any other intoxicating drug or substance, and tobacco or tea mixed, compounded or impregnated with opium, or with any other intoxicating drug, spirit or substance, and whether the same or any of them is liquid or solid;

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(g) The expression "Legislative Assembly means the Legislative Assembly of the Territories composed, under the provisions of this Act, of the members elected to represent the several electoral divisions into which the Territories are or from time to time may be divided. 60-61 Vic, c. 28, s. 3.

THE NORTH-WEST TERRITORIES.

3. The Territories formerly known as "Rupert's Land" and the North-West Territory shall, with the exception of such portions thereof as form the Province of Manitoba and the District of Keewatin. continue to be called and known as the North-West Territories. (But see The Yukon Territory Act, 61 Vic., c. 6, s. 2).

THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.

4. There shall be for the Territories an officer called the Lieutenant Governor appointed by the Governor in Council by instrument under the Great Seal of Canada who shall hold office during pleasure.

(2) The Lieutenant Governor shall administer the Government under instructions from time to time given him by the Governor in Council or by the Secretary of State of Canada.

5. The Governor in Council may from time to time appoint an Administrator to execute the office and functions of the Lieutenant Governor during his absence, illness or other inability.

6. Every Lieutenant Governor or Administrator so appointed shall before assuming the duties of his office take and subscribe before the Governor General or before some person duly authorised to administer such oaths an oath of allegiance and an oath of office similar to those required to be taken by a Lieutenant Governor under The British North America Act 1867.

(106.) There shall be payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of Canada the following sum annually that is to say:

To the Lieutenant Governor, not exceeding.

$7,000

together with such sums of money as are from time to time fixed by the Governor in Council in respect of travelling allowances. 51 Vic., c. 19, s. 17.

(Sections 7 and 8 were repealed by 51 Vic., c. 19, s. 1.)

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