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Ontario Sunday Law Declared Void

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 4, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 31.

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Ontario Sunday Law Declared Void

The Privy Council of England has declared void the Lord’s day act passed by the legislature of Ontario, under which Sunday observance has been enforced in that province for a number of years. The decision affirms that “legislation to prevent the profanation of the Lord’s day is in the nature of criminal law, which the Dominion parliament alone can enact. Provincial legislatures have no jurisdiction to pass such law.”