S-25 - Agricultural Societies Act

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11. On petitions from different parts of a county of which one or all shall be signed by forty persons representing to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food that it would be difficult for farmers from the section in which the petitioners reside to attend the exhibitions of the county society in consequence of the distance, and that they, the forty petitioners, consent to subscribe the amount necessary for the organization of a second agricultural society in the county, in conformity with the provisions of this act, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food shall examine such petition, and if of opinion that it is desirable to have a second agricultural society in the said county, he may authorize its organization, and fix the limits or the section of the county over which its operations shall extend, and, in such case, the operations of the first society shall be limited to the remainder of the county.
R. S. 1964, c. 112, s. 11; 1973, c. 22, s. 22; 1979, c. 77, s. 21.
11. On petitions from different parts of a county of which one or all shall be signed by forty persons representing to the Minister of Agriculture that it would be difficult for farmers from the section in which the petitioners reside to attend the exhibitions of the county society in consequence of the distance, and that they, the forty petitioners, consent to subscribe the amount necessary for the organization of a second agricultural society in the county, in conformity with the provisions of this act, the Minister shall examine such petition, and if of opinion that it is desirable to have a second agricultural society in the said county, he may authorize its organization, and fix the limits or the section of the county over which its operations shall extend, and, in such case, the operations of the first society shall be limited to the remainder of the county.
R. S. 1964, c. 112, s. 11; 1973, c. 22, s. 22.