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12.--(1) A petition to the Assembly may be presented by a Member at any time during the sitting of the Assembly by filing the same with the Clerk of the Assembly.
(6) Petitions may be either written or printed, provided always that when there are three or more petitioners, the signatures of at least three petitioners shall be subscribed on the sheet containing the prayer of the petition.
(9) No petition can be received which prays for any expenditure, grant or charge on the public revenue, whether payable out of the Consolidated Fund or out of moneys to be provided by the Assembly.
NOTE -- A form of Petition can be obtained on application to the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly.
PRIVATE BILLS
64.--(1) All petitions for Private Bills shall be in duplicate and shall be filed with the Clerk of the Assembly not later than the twentieth sitting day of the Session.
(2) No petition for any Private Bill shall be received by the Assembly if presented after the first twenty-five sitting days of the Session.
(3) No Private Bill may be introduced in the Assembly after the first thirty sitting days of the Session.
65.--(1) Every applicant for a Private Bill shall deposit with the Clerk of the Assembly along with the petition for same, two copies of the bill, with marginal notes inserted, and an accepted cheque payable to the Minister of Finance for the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, if the said bill does not exceed ten pages, and fifteen dollars additional for each page over that number, four hundred and fifty words shall be held to constitute a page.
(2) In the case of a bill incorporating a company, a receipt from the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies for any statutory fees required shall also be deposited with the Clerk of the Assembly.
66. No remittance of a deposit on account of a Private Bill or any portion thereof shall be ordered by the Assembly unless the same has been recommended by the committee charged with its consideration, or unless the bill has been withdrawn, rejected or not reported upon, in which cases the actual expenses incurred shall be deducted from the deposit received before making such remittance.
68.--(1) All petitions to the Legislature for Private Bills of any nature whatsoever, shall require a notice, clearly and distinctly specifying the nature and object of the application and where the same refers to any proposed work, indicating generally the location of the work, and signed by and on behalf of the petitioners, with the address of the party signing the same; and when the petition is for an act of incorporation the name of the proposed company shall be stated in the notice.
(2) Such notice shall be published prior to the filing of the petition with the Clerk of the Assembly as required in Rule 64(1) in two consecutive issues of The Saskatchewan Gazette and four consecutive issues of a newspaper, published in English and having circulation in the locality affected.
(3) A copy of the notice with a statutory declaration of the several publications of advertisement shall be filed with the Clerk of the Assembly along with the petition and bill.
69.--(2) Every bill for an act of incorporation, where a form of model bill has been adopted, shall be drawn in accordance with such model bill, copies of which may be obtained from the Clerk of the Assembly. Any provisions contained in any such bill which are not in accord with the model bill shall be inserted between brackets and shall be so printed.
72. When any bill for confirming any agreement is filed with the Clerk of the Assembly a true copy of such agreement must be attached to it.
COMMITTEE RULING
In cases where the proposed bill provides that the property to be used or occupied by the petitioner be exempt from taxation, either in whole or in part, the petitioner must file with the Clerk of the Assembly, along with the petition, a written statement from the local municipal authority in which the said property is situated approving the intent of the provisions of the proposed bill which provide for the exemption from taxation.
The name of the Member who is to present the petition and Private Bill must be furnished to the Clerk of the Assembly at the time of filing the petition. Such Member should not, of course, be a Member of the Cabinet.
GWENN RONYK,
Clerk of the Legislative Assembly,
Room 239, Legislative Building,
Regina, Sask. S4S 0B3
