BILL NO. 82
(as passed)
5th Session, 61st General Assembly
Nova Scotia
62 Elizabeth II, 2013
Provincial Flag Act
CHAPTER 9 OF THE ACTS OF 2013
Jim Boudreau
Guysborough–Sheet Harbour
First Reading: May 6, 2013 (LINK TO BILL AS INTRODUCED)
Second Reading: May 7, 2013
Third Reading: May 9, 2013
Royal Assent: May 10, 2013
An Act Respecting
the Official Flag of Nova Scotia
WHEREAS Armorial Bearings were granted to Nova Scotia by King Charles I and recorded in the Office of Our Lyon King of Arms in Scotland in 1625;
AND WHEREAS the 1625 Armorial Bearings are reputed to have been used on flags flown at the mastheads of Nova Scotian wooden sailing ships;
AND WHEREAS the first known recorded use of the 1625 Armorial Bearings on a flag was, as reported by the Acadian Recorder on June 12, 1858, a celebratory offering to a cricket club;
AND WHEREAS by Royal Warrant bearing date the twenty-sixth day of May, 1868, Her Majesty Queen Victoria granted and assigned a new Armorial Ensign to the Province of Nova Scotia along with certain Armorial Ensigns to the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick, and a great Seal for the Dominion of Canada;
AND WHEREAS by Royal Warrant bearing date the nineteenth day of January, 1929, His Majesty King George V in his Princely Grace and Special Favour did cancel and annul the said Royal Warrant bearing date the twenty-sixth day of May, 1868, in so far as it related to the Armorial Ensigns of the Province and in substitution therefor granted and confirmed the 1625 Armorial Bearings;
AND WHEREAS the 1625 Armorial Bearings have been used as the Nova Scotia flag continuously;
THEREFORE be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 This Act may be cited as the Provincial Flag Act.
2 The flag, bearing the 1625 Armorial Bearings for the Province and described in the Schedule to this Act, is confirmed as the official flag of the Province.
Argent, a Cross of St. Andrew Azure, charged with an escutcheon of the Royal Arms of Scotland.
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