Editing British North America Acts (section)

===British North America Act 1964===
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| short_title           = British North America Act 1964
| type                  = Act
| parliament            = Parliament of the United Kingdom
| long_title            = An Act to amend the British North America Act 1867.
| year                  = 1964
| citation              = [[List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1964|1964]] c. 73
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| territorial_extent    = Canada
| royal_assent          = 31 July 1964
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| amends                = British North America Act 1867
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The '''''British North America Act 1964''''' (c. 73) extended the federal government's jurisdiction over pensions to include those of survivor's benefits and disability benefits while continuing to allow the provinces to have their own pension programs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.solon.org/Constitutions/Canada/English/ca_1964.html|title = Constitution Act, 1964}}</ref> This amendment to the BNA Act made the [[Canada Pension Plan]] possible. In 1982, this act was renamed the ''Constitution Act, 1964''.

This was the last time that the British Parliament enacted legislation on Canada's behalf before the patriation of the Canadian constitution in 1982. The inability of Canada to amend its own constitution already seemed antiquated in 1964. In the debate, a British MP called it an "astonishing and absurd historical anomaly" that "the Canadian Parliament is the only Parliament in the Commonwealth that has to come to us to ask permission to legislate about domestic matters."<ref>{{cite hansard |house=House of Commons |title=British North America Bill |url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1964/jul/15/british-north-america-bill |date=15 July 1964}}</ref>