The Law and Public School Education

An Excerpt from The Alberta Act, 1905

17. Section 93 of the British North America Act, 1867, shall apply to the said Province, with the substitution for paragraph (1) of the said section 93 of the following paragraph:

"(1) Nothing in any such law shall prejudicially affect any right or privilege with respect to the separate schools which any class of persons have at the date of the passing of this Act, under the terms of chapters 29 and 30 of the Ordinances of the North-West Territories, passed in the year 1901, or with respect to religious instruction in any public or separate school as provided for in the said Ordinances.

(c) In the appropriation by the Legislature or distribution by the Government of the Province of any moneys for the support of schools organized and carried on in accordance with the said chapter 29, or any Act passed in amendment thereof or in substitution therefor, there shall be no discrimination against schools of any class described in the said chapter 29.

(d) Where the expression "by law" is employed in paragraph (3) of the said section 93, it shall be held to mean the law as set out in the said chapters 29 and 30; and where the expression "at the union" is employed, in the said paragraph (3), it shall be held to mean the date at which this Act comes into force (September 1st, 1905).