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First Session, 46th General Assembly 57 Elizabeth II, 2008
BILL 8
AN ACT TO AMEND THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY RETIRING ALLOWANCES ACT
Received and Read the First Time...................................................................................................
Second Reading.................................................................................................................................
Committee............................................................................................................................................
Third Reading.....................................................................................................................................
Royal Assent......................................................................................................................................
HONOURABLE THOMAS W. MARSHALL, Q.C. Minister of Finance and President of Treasury Board
Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Members of the House of Assembly Retiring Allowances Act to repeal and replace the definition of MHA salary.

This amendment is consistent with the recommendations of the Green Report and the House of Assembly Accountability, Integrity and Administration Act.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY RETIRING
ALLOWANCES ACT

Analysis

1. S.2 Amdt.
Interpretation

2. Commencement

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

SNL2005 cM-6.1
as amended

1. Paragraph 2(1)(g) of the Members of the House of Assembly Retiring Allowances Act is repealed and the following substituted:

(g) "MHA salary" means

(i) for members elected for the first time to the 46th General Assembly, the salary authorized by the legislature to be paid to an MHA and the amount that the Minister of Finance may prescribe in a directive under this Act, and

(ii) for members elected before the 46th General Assembly,

(A) the salary authorized by the Legislature to be paid to an MHA up to June 30, 2007,

(B) 81.2% of the salary authorized by the Legislature to be paid to an MHA from July 1, 2007; and

(C) an amount that the Minister of Finance may prescribe in a directive under this Act;

Commencement

2. This Act shall be considered to have come into force on July 1, 2007.

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