Editing British North America Acts (section)

===British North America Act 1940===
{{Infobox UK legislation
| short_title           = British North America Act 1940
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An Act to include unemployment insurance among the classes of subjects enumerated in section ninety-one of the British North America Act, 1867
| year                  = 1940
| citation              = [[3 & 4 Geo. 6]]. c. 36
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| territorial_extent    = Canada
| royal_assent          = 10 July 1940
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| amends                = British North America Act 1867
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| status                = Current
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| UK-LEG_title          = British North America Act 1940
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The '''''British North America Act 1940''''' ([[3 & 4 Geo. 6]]. c. 36) gave the federal government jurisdiction over [[unemployment insurance]], thus allowing such a program to be established on a national level.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ca_1940.html|title = Constitution Act, 1940}}</ref> An earlier attempt to create an [[Employment and Social Insurance Act|''Employment and Social Insurance Act'']] during the [[Great Depression]] had been ruled to be [[unconstitutional]], since unemployment assistance was judged by the courts to be a provincial responsibility. In 1982, this act was renamed the ''Constitution Act, 1940''.