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First Session, 47th General Assembly

61 Elizabeth II, 2012

BILL 57

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORKPLACE HEALTH, SAFETY
AND COMPENSATION ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE DARIN KING

Minister of Justice

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act to enable the creation of regulations to provide workplace health, safety and compensation coverage to volunteers engaged in search and rescue activities and auxiliary policing services.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORKPLACE HEALTH, SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT

Analysis


        1.   S.40 Amdt.
Coverage for particular workers

 

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

RSNL1990 cW-11
as amended

        1. Subsection 40(1) of the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act is amended by deleting the word "and" at the end of paragraph (f), by deleting the comma at the end of paragraph (g) and replacing it with a semicolon, and by adding immediately after paragraph (g) the following:

             (h)  volunteers engaged in search and rescue activities as tasked by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; and

              (i)  volunteers engaged in auxiliary policing services,