E-21 - Public Exhibitions Act

Updated to 1 April 1999

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chapter E-21

Public Exhibitions Act

Repealed, 1985, c. 23, s. 10

1985, c. 23, s. 10.

1. All public exhibitions of monsters, idiots or other imbecile or deformed persons, tending to endanger public safety or morality, may be prohibited by local councils in Québec; and any person contravening any such prohibition shall be liable to a fine of $40, recoverable with costs at the suit of the proper municipal corporation, by civil action or proceeding, for its own benefit, before any court having jurisdiction to the above amount, upon the evidence of a credible witness.

R. S. 1964, c. 192, s. 1.

2. This Act shall operate notwithstanding the provisions of sections 2 and 7 to 15 of the Constitution Act, 1982 (Schedule B of the Canada Act, chapter 11 in the 1982 volume of the Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom).

1982, c. 21, s. 1.

REPEAL SCHEDULE

In accordance with section 17 of the Act respecting the consolidation of the statutes (chapter R-3), chapter 192 of the Revised Statutes, 1964, in force on 31 December 1977, is repealed effective from the coming into force of chapter E-21 of the Revised Statutes.