Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and
House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:
Short title
1. This
Act may be cited as the Confederation 75th
Anniversary Recognition Act.
Definitions
2. In
this Act
(a) "executive council" means the executive council of the province; and
(b) "provincial scholarship program"
means a program administered by the
Department of Education to award scholarships to secondary school students on
the basis of academic achievement determined by the student’s scholarship score
as calculated by the Department of Education.
Confederation 75th
Anniversary Medals
3. (1) The
Confederation 75th Anniversary Medal may be awarded to individuals
who
(a) have made a significant contribution to
society;
(b) are living at the time this Act comes into
force; and
(c) satisfy the other requirements that may be
prescribed in the regulations.
(2) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may
establish a committee to select individuals who may be awarded the
Confederation 75th Anniversary Medal.
Confederation 75th
Anniversary Scholarships
4. (1) The
Confederation 75th Anniversary Scholarship is established.
(2) The Minister of the Department of Education may
grant 75 Confederation 75th Anniversary Scholarships to secondary school
students in the province who
(a) have achieved the highest scholarship scores
in 2024; and
(b) have not received another scholarship from the
provincial scholarship program.
(3) The value of each Confederation 75th
Anniversary Scholarship shall be $1,000.
(4) Notwithstanding subsection (2), no more than 3
Confederation 75th Anniversary Scholarships may be awarded in an
electoral district.
Honorary members
of executive council
5. (1)
Every former member of the executive council who is
living on the date this Act comes into force and every individual who becomes a
former member of the executive council on or after the coming into force of
this Act, is designated as an honorary member of the executive council.
(2) An individual who is an honorary member of the executive
council is not a member of the executive council for the purposes of the Executive Council Act or any other
enactment that confers rights, obligations or privileges on members of the
executive council.
(3) Subject to subsection (4), an honorary member
of the executive council may use the honorific and title set out in section 6.
(4) Where a person who is designated as an honorary
member of the executive council under this section is convicted of an offence
that could have been prosecuted by way of indictment, the person immediately ceases
to be an honorary member of the executive council and is disqualified from
being designated as an honorary member again in the future.
Honorific and
title
6. A
member of the executive council, including an honorary member, may use
(a) the honorific "The Honourable"
before the member's name; and
(b) the initials "E.C.N.L" after the
member's name to indicate membership in the executive council.
Regulations
7. The
Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations
(a) prescribing additional requirements for the purposes
of paragraph 3(1)(c);
(b) defining a word or
phrase used but not defined in this Act; and
(c) generally, to give
effect to the purpose of this Act.
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