IV.  Amerika.  1391  246.  Canada.

Be  it  therefore  enacted  by  the  queen’s  most  excellent  majesty,  by  and  with
the  advice  and  consent  of  the  lords  spiritual  and  temporal,  and  commons,  in  this
present  parliament  assembled,  and  by  the  authority  of  the  same,  as  follows:—

1.  Section  eighteen  of  the  British  North  America  act,  1867,  is  hereby  repealed
without  prejudice  to  anything  done  under  that  section,  and  the  following  section
shall  be  substituted  for  the  section  so  repealed:

The  privileges,  immunities  and  powers  to  be  held,  enjoyed  and  exercised  by
the  senate  and  by  the  house  of  commons,  and  by  the  members  thereof,  respectively,
shall  be  such  as  are  from  time  to  time  defined  by  act  of  the  parliament  of  Canada,
but  so  that  any  act  of  the  parliament  of  Canada  defining  such  privileges,  immunities
and  powers  shall  not  confer  any  privileges,  immunities  or  powers  exceeding  those
at  the  passing  of  such  act,  held,  enjoyed  and  exercised  by  the  commons  house  of
parliament  of  the  united  kingdom  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland  and  by  the  members
thereof.

2.  The  act  of  the  parliament  of  Canada  passed  in  the  thirty-first  year  of  the
reign  of  her  present  majesty,  chapter  twenty-four,  intituled  “An  act  provide  for  oaths
to  witnesses  being  administered  in  certain  cases  for  the  purposes  of  either  house  of
parliament’’,  shall  be  deemed  to  be  valid,  and  to  have  been  valid  as  from  the  date
at  which  the  royal  assent  was  given  thereto  by  the  governor-general  of  the  Dominion
of  Canada.

3.  This  act  may  be  cited  as  “The  Parliament  of  Canada  Act,  1875”.

The  British  North  America  Act,  1886.
June  25,  1886.
An  Act  respecting  the  representation  in  the  Parliament  of  Canada  of  Territories  which

for  the  time  being  form  part  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada,  but  are  not  included  in  any
Province.

Whereas  it  is  expedient  to  empower  the  parliament  of  Canada  to  provide  for
the  representation  in  the  senate  and  house  of  commons  of  Canada,  or  either  of  them,
of  any  territory  which  for  the  time  being  forms  part  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada,
but  is  not  included  in  any  province:

Be  it  therefore  enacted  by  the  queen’s  most  excellent  majesty,  by  and  with
the  advice  and  consent  of  the  lords  spiritual  and  temporal,  and  commons,  in  this
present  parliament  assembled,  and  by  the  authority  of  the  same,  as  follows:—

1.  The  parliament  of  Canada  may,  from  time  to  time,  make  provision  for  the
representation  in  the  senate  and  house  of  commons  of  Canada,  or  in  either  of  them,
of  any  territories  which  for  the  time  being  form  part  of  the  Dominion  of  Canada,
but  are  not  included  in  any  province  thereof.

2.  Any  act  passed  by  the  parliament  of  Canada  before  the  passing  of  this  act
for  the  purpose  mentioned  in  this  act  shall,  if  not  disallowed  by  the  queen,  be,  and
shall  be  deemed  to  have  been,  valid  and  effectual  from  the  date  at  which  it  received
the  assent,  in  her  majesty’s  name,  of  the  governor-general  of  Canada.

It  his  hereby  declared  that  any  act  passed  by  the  parliament  of  Canada,  whether
before  of  after  the  passing  of  this  act,  for  the  purpose  mentioned  in  this  act,  or  in