46

 

Third Session, 45th General Assembly

55 Elizabeth II, 2006

BILL 46

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROVINCIAL COURT ACT, 1991

Received and Read the First Time...................................................................................................

Second Reading.................................................................................................................................

Committee............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading.....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE THOMAS W. MARSHALL, QC

Minister of Justice and Attorney General

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

  

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of this Bill is to amend section 28.2 of the Provincial Court Act, 1991 to validate the 2006 Provincial Court Judges' Salary and Benefits Tribunal Report as of May 26, 2006 which is the date upon which its first report was submitted to the minister and to require its second report respecting judicial indemnity to be filed no later than March 1, 2007.  The next following report would be presented to the minister not later than April 1, 2010.  This amendment would be retroactive to April 1, 2006.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROVINCIAL COURT ACT, 1991

Analysis


        1.   S.28.2 Amdt.
Tribunal's report

        2.   Commencement


Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1991 c15
as amended

        1. (1) Subsection 28.2(1.1) of the Provincial Court Act, 1991 is amended by deleting the word, comma and numbers "April 1, 2006" and substituting the words, commas and numbers "May 26, 2006 and a second report respecting judicial indemnity no later than March 1, 2007".

             (2)  Section 28.2 of the Act is amended by adding immediately after subsection (1.1) the following:

          (1.2)  Notwithstanding subsection (1.1), the next report required under subsection (1) after March 1, 2007 shall be presented to the minister not later than April 1, 2010.

Commencement

        2. This Act shall be considered to have come into force on April 1, 2006.