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Third Session, 48th General Assembly

67 Elizabeth II, 2018

BILL 6

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LOAN AND GUARANTEE ACT, 1957

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE TOM OSBORNE

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 Schedule to The Loan and Guarantee Act, 1957.

Order in Council 2005-066 authorized a loan guarantee of $350,000 in order to secure additional operating credit for the Stephenville Airport Corporation during the period of its restructuring. In 2010, the guarantee was increased by $250,000, with an additional increase of $300,000 being authorized in 2016. In addition, in 2016 an expiry date of March 31, 2016 was confirmed and that date was extended to June 30, 2016 and then further extended to October 31, 2016 and then to March 31, 2018.  This Bill would further extend that expiry date to March 31, 2019.


A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LOAN AND GUARANTEE ACT, 1957

Analysis


        1.   Schedule Amdt


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

1957 No. 70
as amended

        1. The Schedule to The Loan and Guarantee Act, 1957 is amended by amending Item 2 - Stephenville Airport Corporation, as enacted by chapter 6 of 2005 and amended by chapter 20 of 2010, chapter 26 of 2016 and chapter 39 of 2016, by striking out the expiry date of "Mar. 31/18" and substituting the expiry date of "Mar. 31/19".