1.1 Legislation and By-Laws

1.1 Legislation and By-Laws

Date initially approved: 1917
Date revised: May 30, 1985; November 18, 1986; September 22, 1994; May 14, 1997; May 10, 2006; January 9, 2008; May 14, 2008; May 13, 2009; June 28, 2017; June 29, 2020; June 29, 2022; August 25, 2026
Date reviewed: November 19, 2025

An Act to Incorporate The Catholic College of Regina (assented to December 15, 1917).

Preamble

WHEREAS Right Reverend Olivier Elzear Mathieu, Archbishop of Regina, Reverend George Daly, C.SS.R., priest, and Reverend George Grandbois, bursar of the Archdiocese of Regina, all of Regina in the Province of Saskatchewan, have presented a petition praying for the incorporation of a college to be conducted under the authority of the Roman Catholic Church: and

WHEREAS it is expedient to grant the said prayer: Therefore his Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, enacts as follows:

Incorporation

1. The Right Reverend Olivier Elzear Mathieu, Reverend George Daly and Reverend George Grandbois, and such others as shall hereafter from time to time be associated with or substituted for them shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic under the name of “The Catholic College of Regina,” and shall under said name have power to establish, maintain and conduct at the City of Regina a college and school or schools where students may obtain a liberal education in the arts and sciences, and to promote the study, practice, and knowledge of such arts and sciences, and for such purposes formulate courses of study and rules of discipline for the students and provide for the delivery of lectures and the holding of exhibitions, classes and conferences calculated directly or indirectly to advance the cause of education whether general, professional or technical: to award certificates and diplomas for merit and efficiency and to appoint such professors, associate professors, lecturers, instructors, and other officers and servants as may be necessary to carrying into effect the objects and purposes of the corporation, and to cancel or rescind such appointments at pleasure.

Powers of College

2. In addition to the powers, rights and privileges conferred upon or vested in corporations by the laws of Saskatchewan the said corporation shall have full power and authority:

May hold land etc.
(a) to acquire by gift, devise, purchase, exchange, lease or otherwise, real and personal property of any and every nature and kind whatsoever and to possess, hold and enjoy the same as owner: Provided, however, that the said corporation shall not acquire or hold as purchaser any land (except for the actual use and occupation of the corporation, or for the purposes of the corporation), exceeding in the whole at any one time the annual value of five thousand dollars, and that lands, tenements or hereditaments acquired by gift, devise or bequest and not required for the actual use and occupation of the corporation, or for the purposes of the corporation, the annual value of which together with the other land of the corporation exceeds five thousand dollars, shall not be held by the corporation for a longer period than seven years and within such period the same shall be absolutely disposed of by the corporation, and in case of failure to dispose of the same within such seven years such land shall revert to the Crown in the right of the Province.

May dispose of land etc.
(b) to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange or otherwise deal with or dispose of its real and personal property or any portion of either and with the proceeds thereof to acquire other real and personal property to such extent as may be deemed advisable or desirable, and to make and execute all necessary or proper conveyances, transfers, or other instruments for carrying the same into effect;

May invest in property or security
(c) to invest all or any sums of money belonging to the corporation in any property or security whatsoever for the use and purposes of the corporation;

May acquire pledged property
(d) to acquire, take possession of and hold as the corporation may deem proper all such property (real, personal or mixed) as may at any time be mortgaged hypothecated or pledged to the corporation by way of security or conveyed to it in satisfaction of obligations or debts due or owing to it from any person, firm or corporation:
Provided that the corporation shall sell any real estate required in satisfaction of any debt due to itself within seven years after such acquisition unless such term is extended by Order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, otherwise such real estate shall revert to the Crown in the right of the province;

May borrow money
(e) to borrow from any person, firm or corporation such sum or sums of money as may be found or deemed to be necessary for the purposes of the corporation and to secure any loans to the lender or lenders by bills of exchange, promissory notes, mortgages or any other instrument or instruments that may be required or deemed necessary or desirable by the lender or lenders;

May erect buildings
(f) to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, build and erect and to manage and conduct all such halls, houses and other buildings as may be found or deemed necessary or convenient for carrying on the educational work of the corporation, including the organization, conduct and management of boarding schools, houses and halls of residence for students;

May collect fees
(g) to fix, charge and collect fees for any services rendered by the corporation, including fees for the instruction and for the board and lodging of students;

May affiliate
(h) to make and enter into treaties, contracts and arrangements for affiliating with the said corporation and its educational work any other schools and colleges.

Others may become members

3. The persons named in the first section hereof may with the consent of any other person or persons of the Roman Catholic faith, resident in the Province of Saskatchewan, declare such person or persons to be member or members of said corporation; and thereafter such person or persons shall for all purposes be a member or members of said corporation.

Members may resign

4. Any of the persons named in section 1 hereof any other person who has become a member of the said corporation under section 3 hereof may by writing under his hand, resign his membership in said corporation, and from and after the receipt of such resignation by the corporation, such person shall cease to be a member of said corporation.

Council of Management

5. The affairs of the said corporation shall be managed by a council composed in the first instance of the persons named in section 1 hereof; the council shall have power to make rules and regulations for the management of the affairs of the corporation, and for the election of successors to said persons as members of said council.

Exemption from Taxation

6. All property (real and personal) of the said corporation now or hereafter acquired shall while used for college purposes be exempt from all taxes, rates, levies and assessment of every nature, and kind save and except special frontage assessment taxes under part XII of The City Act.