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Third Session, 47th General Assembly

63 Elizabeth II, 2014

BILL 18

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FISH PROCESSING
LICENSING BOARD ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE KEITH HUTCHINGS

Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Fish Processing Licensing Board Act to

·         allow members of the board to continue in office upon the expiry of their terms until they are reappointed or replaced; and

·         decrease the required minimum number of meetings per year from 6 to 2.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FISH PROCESSING LICENSING BOARD ACT

Analysis


        1.   S.6 Amdt.
Term of office

        2.   S.8 Amdt.
Operation of the board


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

SNL2004 cF-12.01

        1. Section 6 of the Fish Processing Licensing Board Act is amended by adding immediately after subsection (2) the following:

         (2.1)  Where the term of a member of the board expires, he or she continues to be a member until reappointed or replaced.

 

        2. Subsection 8(1) of the Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Operation of the board

        8. (1) Meetings of the board shall be scheduled at the call of the chairperson or, in his or her absence, the vice-chairperson, but there shall be no fewer than 2 meetings in a calendar year.