2008 BILL 9

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First Session, 46th General Assembly 57 Elizabeth II, 2008
BILL 9
AN ACT TO AMEND THE SUPPORT ORDERS ENFORCEMENT ACT, 2006
Received and Read the First Time...................................................................................................
Second Reading.................................................................................................................................
Committee............................................................................................................................................
Third Reading.....................................................................................................................................
Royal Assent......................................................................................................................................
HONOURABLE JEROME P. KENNEDY, Q.C. Minister of Justice and Attorney General
Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Support Orders Enforcement Act, 2006 to clarify that solicitor-client privilege is exempt from the operation of subsection 11(5) of the Act.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE SUPPORT ORDERS ENFORCEMENT ACT, 2006

Analysis

1. S.11 Amdt.
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Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2006 cS-31.1
as amended

1. Subsection 11(5) of the Support Orders Enforcement Act, 2006 is repealed and the following substituted:

(5) This section applies despite another Act or regulation and despite a common law rule of confidentiality or privilege, except solicitor-client privilege.