tion, storage or delivery of any crude, stock or storage oil, or any product thereof or of any gas in its possession or control, or in which it may be interested, directly or indirectly.

"(4) The Board may, as a condition, stipulate that the person to whom the permit is granted, who is not made a common purchaser by the order of the Board, shall not own or operate, directly or indirectly, any petroleum or gas well, petroleum or gas lease or petroleum or gas holdings or interests in the Province."

4. Section 9 of the said Act is hereby struck out and the following substituted therefor:

"9.-(1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations—

"(a) providing for the inspection of pipe lines during their construction, and thereafter, and for the cost of any such inspection, and as to the persons by whom such cost is to be borne;

"(b) prescribing the pressure to which any pipe line for the transportation or transmission of gas or petroleum may be subjected;

"(c) for the purposes of this Act, altering the meaning of, or giving a new meaning to, the term 'common carrier' as known to the common law;

"(d) fixing the number, capacity and nature of storage tanks, and the methods of gauging the petroleum therein, on any common carrier system;

"(e) fixing the number of and providing for the installation of conduits, services, governors and meters; "(f), fixing the types and gravities of petroleum or gas which may be conducted through the pipe line or lines;

"(g) providing for the analysis and testing of gas by competent and technical persons;

"(h) requiring petroleum or gas conducted, or to be conducted through such pipe line or lines, to be treated if necessary in a treating or purification plant, and providing for the installation of, and general requirements to be observed with respect to, such treating plant;

"(i) providing for the laying of all pipe lines under the direction and inspection of proper persons; "(j) providing that pipe lines are not to be constructed, maintained or operated until the damages arising from the laying of the pipe lines have been paid or otherwise settled for;

"(k) fixing the rates for carriage through any pipe line; "(1) fixing the percentage of loss allowable to the owner of any pipe line;

"(m) prescribing measures of safety for the protection of life and property during the construction of pipe lines, compressor stations, pumping stations, regu

lating stations, house service lines, the installation of meters and other measuring devices during construction and thereafter;

"(n) providing for the reconstruction or removal of pipe lines, pipe line connections, compressor stations, pumping stations, regulators, meters, treating plants, purifying plants, tanks, and all other petroleum or gas operating machinery and appurtenances, which through deterioration, or otherwise, have become or may become a danger or menace to life and property;

"(o) prescribing penalties for the breach of any regulations made under this Act, or of any conditions imposed by the Board of Public Utility Commissioners.

"(2) In making any such regulations, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may rely upon the technical advice of competent persons, and may consult with operators of pipe lines in order that the regulations may be as effective as possible, and impose as little hardship as possible upon individuals."

5. Section 10a is added to the said Act as follows: "10a. This Act is only intended to, and shall be deemed only to, operate as to matters which are within the exclusive legislative jurisdiction of the Province of Alberta, and all matters not within such exclusive jurisdiction are hereby declared to be outside the provisions of this Act."

6. Section 10b is added to the said Act as follows: "10b. This Act shall apply to all pipe lines whether constructed before or after the passing of this Act, but no company having constructed, or operating, a pipe line prior to the last day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, shall be required to apply for the permit or declaratory order hereinbefore provided for, but any other company may make an application to the Board of Public Utility Commissioners and thereupon the said Board shall have power to make any order which it is hereinbefore given power to make."

7. This Act shall come into force upon Proclamation by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.

HIS

CHAPTER 71.

An Act respecting Stock Yards.

(Assented to May 22, 1926.)

IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as "The Stock Yards Act."

2. In this Act and in any regulation made hereunder, unless the context otherwise requires

(a) "Commission merchant" shall mean any person,

partnership or corporation, in Canada, engaged in the business of buying or selling live stock for a commission;

(b) "Co-operative association" shall mean any association of persons, either incorporated or unincorporated who are so associated for the purpose of marketing live stock by any customary or reasonable method of co-operative marketing;

(c) "Live stock" shall mean meat cattle, sheep, swine and poultry;

(d) "Minister" shall mean the Minister of Agriculture; (e) "Stock yards" shall mean any area of land, used for

a public market for purchasing and selling live stock, with the buildings, fences, gates, chutes, weigh scales and other equipment, situated thereon and used in connection therewith;

(f) "Live stock exchange" shall mean an organization composed of persons engaged in the business of buying and selling live stock, either directly or indirectly through a commission merchant;

3. The Minister shall have power, with the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council to make regulations(a) governing the conduct of live stock exchanges and the issue of licenses to such exchanges;

(b) prescribing the persons who are to be entitled to do business at stock yards;

(c) providing for the issue of licenses to commission merchants and the giving of security by such merchants;

(d) providing for the issue of licences to co-operative
associations and prescribing the conditions upon
which and the method in which any such associa-
tion shall be entitled to do business at a stock-yard;
and the terms upon which any such association shall
be entitled to become a member of and exercise the
rights of membership in a live stock exchange;
(e) providing for the issue of licenses to owners, lessees,
occupiers or operators of stock yards;

(f) providing for the construction, equipment and in-
spection of such stock yards;

(g) approving of by-laws made by exchanges; or
(h) prescribing by-laws to be complied with by such
exchanges;

(i) prescribing the fees to be charged in stock yards;
(j) providing for the appointment of inspectors of live
stock, live stock yards and live stock exchanges, and
any other officers that may be required to carry out
the regulations made under the provisions of this
Act;

(k) prescribing the conditions upon which the operation
of stock yards may be begun or upon the breach of
which they may be closed;

(l) providing for the grading of live stock:

Provided, however, that the grading of hogs, as established by regulations made under The Live Stock and Live Stock Products Act, 1922, of the Dominion of Canada shall also be the grading established under this Act;

(m) providing for the inspection, branding and market-
ing of live stock;

(n) prescribing the kind or description of live stock,
which may be offered for sale at stock yards;
(o) which are calculated to ensure the fair conduct of
live stock exchanges and co-operative associations,
or on the part of commission merchants, or owners,
lessees, occupiers or operators of stock yards.

4. Any person violating any provision of any regulation made under the provisions of this Act shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months, or to both fine and imprisonment.

5. Any person assaulting, obstructing or interfering with any inspector or officer in the performance of any duty delegated to him by regulations made under the provisions of this Act or refusing to allow any inspector or officer to enter any building or other premises, which by virtue of the said regulations, he is entitled to enter, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or for both fine and imprisonment.