LAWS EXISTING PRIOR TO UNION. 2s

16. ALTERATION OF LAWS EXISTING AT TIME OF THE
UNION.

By section 129, the laws in force in each province were
to continue in force, subject (except as regards Imperial
Acts) to being altered by the Dominion or province, according
as their subject-matter was within the jurisdiction of the
Dominion or the province under the provisions of the Act of
Union.
The powers possessed by a provincial Legislature to repeal
and alter old statutes are co-extensive with the powers of
direct legislation which the province possesses under other
clauses of the Acth

. Dobie v, The Temporalities Board, Li. R. 7 App. Cas. 136; 1 Cart. 851,

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