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Date: 1987-12-22
By: Jeanne Sauvé (Governor General)
Citation: Governor General Jeanne Sauvé, Proclamation, 22 December 1987.
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Constitution Amendment, 1987 (Newfoundland Act)

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SI/88-11 20 January, 1988

CONSTITUTION ACT, 1982

Constitution Amendment Proclamation, 1987
(Newfoundland Act)

By Her Excellency the Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada

To All to Whom these Presents shall come,

Greeting:

JEANNE SAUVÉ

A Proclamation

Whereas section 13 of the Constitution Act, 1982 provides that an amendment to the Constitution of Canada may be made by proclamation issued by the Governor General under the Great Seal of Canada where so authorized by resolutions of the Senate and House of Commons and of the legislative assembly of each province to which the amendment applies;

And Whereas the Senate, the House of Commons and the House of Assembly of the Province of Newfoundland have, by resolution, authorized an amendment to the Constitution of Canada to be made by proclamation issued by the Governor General under the Great Seal of Canada;

And Whereas the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada has advised me to issue this proclamation;

Now Know You that I do issue this proclamation amending the Constitution of Canada in accordance with the schedule hereto.

In testimony whereof I have caused these Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto affixed.

At Government House, in the City of Ottawa, this twenty-second day of December in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-seven.

By Command,

HARVIE ANDRE

Registrar General of Canada   

RAY HNATYSHYN

Attorney General of Canada                                                                         

BRIAN MULRONEY

Prime Minister of Canada

SCHEDULE

Amendment to the Constitution of Canada

1. (1) Section 3 of the Newfoundland Act is renumbered as subsection 3(1). (2) Section 3 of the said Act is further amended by adding thereto the following subsection:

References “(2) A reference to this Act, or a reference to the Terms of Union of Newfoundland with Canada set out in the Schedule to this Act, shall be deemed to include a reference to any amendments thereto.”

2. (1) Term 17 of the Terms of Union of Newfoundland with Canada set out in the Schedule to the said Act is renumbered as Term 17(1). (2) Term 17 of the Terms of Union of Newfoundland with Canada set out in the Schedule to the said Act is further amended by adding thereto the following:

“(2) For the purposes of paragraph one of this Term, the Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland have in Newfoundland all the same rights and privileges with respect to denominational schools and denominational colleges as any other class or classes of persons had by law in Newfoundland at the date of Union, and the words “all such schools” in paragraph (a) of paragraph one of this Term and the words “all such colleges” in paragraph (b) of paragraph one of this Term include, respectively, the schools and the colleges of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland.”

Citation

3. This Amendment may be cited as the Constitution Amendment, 1987 (Newfoundland Act).