REPRESENTATION 1

B I L L No. 79 An Act respecting Representation in the Legislative Assembly

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Short title 5 Names of constituencies 2 Interpretation 6 S.S. 2002 c.R-20.4 repealed 3 Composition of Legislative Assembly 7 Coming into force 4 Constituencies established and boundaries fixed Schedule

(Assented to ) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of , enacts as follows:

Short title 1 This Act may be cited as The Representation Act, 2012.

Interpretation 2 In this Act: (a) “constituency” means a constituency established pursuant to section 4; (b) “northern constituency” means a constituency north of the dividing line described in The Constituency Boundaries Act, 1993; (c) “southern constituency” means a constituency south of the dividing line described in The Constituency Boundaries Act, 1993.

Composition of Legislative Assembly 3 In accordance with The Constituency Boundaries Act, 1993, the Legislative Assembly is to consist of 61 members to be elected to represent constituencies.

Constituencies established and boundaries fixed 4 The constituencies that are hereby established, and the boundaries for the constituencies that are hereby fixed, are those: (a) described by the Constituency Boundaries Commission in its final report pursuant to The Constituency Boundaries Act, 1993, being Sessional Paper No. 284 of the First Session of the Twenty-Seventh Legislature laid before the Legislative Assembly by the Speaker; and (b) approved and adopted by resolution of the Legislative Assembly.

Names of constituencies 5 The names of the constituencies are those specified in the Schedule. REPRESENTATION 2

S.S. 2002, c.R-20.4 repealed 6 The Representation Act, 2002 is repealed.

Coming into force 7 Notwithstanding subsection 23(2) of The Constituency Boundaries Act, 1993, this Act comes into force on the day following the day the Twenty-Seventh Legislative Assembly is dissolved or is determined by effluxion of time.

Schedule Names of Constituencies Northern Constituencies Athabasca Cumberland Southern Constituencies Arm River Batoche Biggar-Sask Valley Cannington Canora-Pelly Carrot River Valley Cut Knife-Turtleford Cypress Hills Estevan Humboldt-Watrous Indian Head-Milestone Kelvington-Wadena Kindersley Last Mountain-Touchwood Lloydminster Lumsden-Morse Martensville-Warman Meadow Lake Melfort Melville-Saltcoats Moosomin Regina Elphinstone-Centre Regina University REPRESENTATION 3

Rosetown-Elrose Rosthern-Shellbrook Centre Saskatoon Churchill-Wildwood Saskatoon Silverspring-Sutherland Saskatoon Stonebridge-Dakota Saskatoon University Swift Current The Battlefords Weyburn-Big Muddy Wood River Yorkton REPRESENTATION 4

SECOND SESSION Twenty-seventh Legislature SASKATCHEWAN

BILL

No. 79 An Act respecting Representation in the Legislative Assembly

Received and read the

First time

Second time

Third time

And passed

Honourable Gordon Wyant

Printed under the authority of The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan 2012