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Fourth Session, 45th General Assembly

56 Elizabeth II, 2007

BILL 8

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HUMAN RIGHTS CODE

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE TOM OSBORNE

Minister of Justice

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Human Rights Code to provide that it would constitute discrimination on the basis of age for an employer to dismiss an employee on the ground that it was provided for in the terms and conditions of a good faith retirement or pension plan applicable to the employee.  The operation of such a retirement or pension plan would otherwise remain unaffected.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HUMAN RIGHTS CODE

Analysis


        1.   S.9 Amdt.
Discrimination in employment

        2.   Commencement


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

RSNL1990 cH-14
as amended

        1. (1) Paragraph 9(5)(a) of the Human Rights Code is repealed and the following substituted:

             (a)  prevent the operation of a good faith retirement or pension plan;

             (2)  Section 9 of the Act is amended by adding immediately after subsection (5) the following:

          (5.1)  Paragraph (5)(a) does not apply to a provision of a good faith retirement or pension plan requiring a person to retire at an age set out in the plan.

Commencement

        2. This Act comes into force on May 26, 2007.