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not included in any province thereof, and may at the time of such establishment,
make provision for the constitution and administration of any such province, and
for the passing of laws for the peace, order and good government of such province,
and for its representation in the said parliament.
3. The parliament of Canada may from time to time, with the consent of the
legislature of any province of the said Dominion, increase, diminish or otherwise
alter the limits of such province, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed
to by the said legislature, and may, with the like consent, make provision respecting
the effect and operation of any such increase or diminution or alteration of territory
in relation to any province effected thereby.
4. The parliament of Canada may from time to time make provision for the
administration, peace, order and good government of any territory not for the time
being included in any province.
5. The following acts passed by the said parliament of Canada, and intituled
respectively: “An act for the temporary government of Rupert’s Land and the
Northwestern Territory when united with Canada”, and “An act to amend and
continue the act thirty-two and thirty-three Victoria, chapter three, and to establish
and provide for the government of the province of Manitoba”, shall be and be deemed
to have been valid and effectual for all purposes whatsoever from the date at which
they respectively received the assent, in the queen’s name, of the governor-general
of the said Dominion of Canada.
6. Except as provided by the third section of this act, it shall not be competent
for the parliament of Canada to alter the provisions of the last mentioned act of the
said parliament,in so far as it relates to the province of Manitoba, or ofany otheract
hereafter establishing new provinces in the said Dominion, subject always to the
right of the legislature of the province of Manitoba to alter from time to time the
provisions of any law respecting the qualification of electors and members of the
legislative assembly, and to make laws respecting elections in the said province.
The Parliament of Canada Act, 1875.
(July 19, 1875.)
An Act to remove doubts with respect to the powers of the Parliament of Canada
under section eighteen of the British North America Act, 1867.
Whereas by section eighteen of the British North America Act, 1867, it is
provided as follows:
“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 parliament of Canada, but
so that the same shall never exceed those at the passing of this act, held, enjoyed
and exercised by the common house of parliament of the united kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland and by the members thereof.”
And whereas doubts have arisen with regards to the power of defining by an
act of the parliament of Canada, in pursuance of the said section, the said privileges,
powers, or immunities; and it is expedient to remove such doubts:
