37

 

 

First Session, 48th General Assembly

65 Elizabeth II, 2016

BILL 37

AN ACT TO AMEND THE INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT ACT AND THE STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE GERRY BYRNE

Minister of Advanced Education and Skills

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Income and Employment Support Act and the Student Financial Assistance Act to allow the Student Loan Corporation of Newfoundland and Labrador to collect overpayments of income and employment support.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT ACT AND THE STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE ACT

Analysis


              INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT ACT

        1.   S.7 Amdt.
Release of information

              STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE ACT

        2.   S.14.5 Amdt.
Powers


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

INCOME AND EMPLOYMENT SUPPORT ACT

SNL2002 cI-0.1
as amended

        1. The Income and Employment Support Act is amended by adding immediately after subsection 7(3) the following:

         (3.1)  Notwithstanding subsection (2), the minister may exchange information necessary to collect money owed to the Crown as a result of an overpayment with the corporation established under section 14.1 of the Student Financial Assistance Act.

STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE ACT

SNL2002 cS-29.01
as amended

        2. Section 14.5 of the Student Financial Assistance Act is amended by adding immediately after paragraph (k) the following:

         (k.1)  collect money owed to the Crown as a result of overpayments of income support and employment support, as those terms are defined in the Income and Employment Support Act;