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First Session, 45th General Assembly 53 Elizabeth II, 2004 |
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AN ACT TO REVISE VARIOUS ACTS OF THE PROVINCE WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN FUNCTIONS OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE |
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Received and Read the First Time |
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Second Reading |
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Committee |
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Third Reading |
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Royal Assent |
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HONOURABLE THOMAS W. MARSHALL, QC Minister of Justice and Attorney General |
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Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly |
EXPLANATORY NOTE This omnibus Bill would amend numerous provincial statutes and regulations to transfer judicial functions currently performed by Justices of the Peace, except those related to ticketing, to Provincial Court Judges. A BILL AN ACT TO REVISE VARIOUS ACTS OF THE PROVINCE WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN FUNCTIONS OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE Analysis 1. Short title 2. Aquaculture Act 3. Automobile Dealers Act 4.
City of 5. Collections Act 6. Communicable Diseases Act 7. Consumer Protection Act 8. Consumer Reporting Agencies Act 9. Dangerous Goods Transportation Act 10. Degree Granting Act 11. Endangered Species Act 12. Fatalities Investigations Act 13. Financial Corporations Capital Tax Act 14. Fish Inspection Act 15. Food and Drug Act 16. Gasoline Tax Act 17. Health and Post-Secondary Education Tax Act 18. Human Rights Code 19. Insurance Adjusters, Agents and Brokers Act 20. Judicature Act 21. Labour Standards Act 22. Law Society Act, 1999 23. Liquor Control Act 24. Liquor Corporation Act 25. Mining and Mineral Rights Tax Act, 2002 26. Mortgage Brokers Act 27. Occupational Health and Safety Act 28. Offshore Area Corporate Income Tax Act 29. Pension Benefits Act, 1997 30. Petroleum Products Act 31. Plant Protection Act 32. Poultry and Poultry Products Act 33. Prepaid Funeral Services Act 34. Provincial Offences Act 35. Quarry Materials Act, 1998 36. Real Estate Trading Act 37. Recording of Evidence Act 38. Residential Tenancies Act, 2000 39. Retail Sales Tax Act 40.
Royal 41. Salvage Dealers Licensing Act 42. Shops' Closing Act 43. Stock Savings Tax Credit Act 44. Tobacco Tax Act 45. Trade Practices Act 46. Vegetable Grading Act 47. Venture Capital Act 48. Wild Life Act 49. CNLR 1161/96 Amdt. 50. CNLR 1081/96 Amdt. 51. NLR 2/99 Amdt. 52. Rules of the Supreme Court, 1986 Amdt. 53. NLR 59/03 Amdt. 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 Justices of the Peace Amendment Act. RSNL1990 cA-13 as amended 2. (1) Subsection 13.1(2) of the Aquaculture Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". (2) Subsection 13.1(3) of the Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cA-21 as amended 3. Subsection 22(4) of the Automobile Dealers Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cC-17 as amended 4. Section 48 of the City of St. John's Act is repealed and the following substituted: Interference or destruction 48. (1) Where a person wilfully or maliciously hinders or interrupts the contractors, employees or agents of the council in the exercise of the powers and authorities under this Act or where a person wilfully or maliciously puts out of order, injures or destroys a pipe, work or material of the council, the offender on conviction in a summary manner before a provincial court judge shall forfeit a sum not exceeding $20, with costs of suit and shall by, upon the order of the judge, all damage so occasioned by him or her and in default of payment is liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 months. (2) A person who witnesses the commission of an offence referred to in subsection (1) may apprehend without warrant the offender and to convey him or her before a provincial court judge, to be dealt with in the manner provided in subsection (1). RSNL1990 cC-22 as amended 5. Subsection 9(4) of the Collections Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cC-26 as amended 6. Subsection 13(3) of the Communicable Diseases Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cC-31 as amended 7. Subsection 6(4) of the Consumer Protection Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cC-32 as amended 8. Subsection 7(4) of the Consumer Reporting Agencies Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cD-1 9. Subsection 14(2) of the Dangerous Goods Transportation Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cD-5 10. Subsection 6(3) of the Degree Granting Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". SNL2001 cE-10.1 11. Subsection 34(2) of the Endangered Species Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". SNL1995 cF-6.1 12. Subsection 12(4) of the Fatalities Investigations Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cF-9 13. Subsection 32(1) of the Financial Corporations Capital Tax Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cF-12 14. Subsection 9(2) of the Fish Inspection Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cF-21 15. Subsection 6(2) of the Food and Drug Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cG-1 16. Subsection 43(4) of the Gasoline Tax Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cH-1 17. Subsection 18(1) of the Health and Post-Secondary Education Tax Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cH-14 as amended 18. Subsection 22(3) of the Human Rights Code is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cI-9 19. Subsection 43(3) of the Insurance Adjusters, Agents and Brokers Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cJ-4 20. Section
40 of the Judicature Act is repealed. RSNL1990 cL-2 21. Subsection 64(3) of the Labour Standards Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". SNL1999 cL-9.1 22. Paragraph 76(1)(c) of the Law Society Act, 1999 is amended by deleting the words "or Justice of the Peace". RSNL1990 cL-18 as amended 23. (1) Subsection 18(3) of the Liquor Control Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". (2) Subsection 89(2) of the Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cL-19 as amended 24. Subsection 50(2) of the Liquor Corporation Act is repealed and the following is substituted: (2) A Provincial Court judge or the board, when a riot or tumult happens, or is likely to happen, may order a liquor store, liquor agency or premises in respect of which an existing licence has been issued under the Liquor Control Act to be closed. SNL2002 cM-16.1 25. Subsection 19(1) of the Mining and Mineral Rights Tax Act, 2002 is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cM-18 as amended 26. Subsection 7(4) of the Mortgage Brokers Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cO-3 27. Subsection 26.1(2) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act is amended by deleting the words "or a justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cO-6 28. Subsection 11(2) of the Offshore Area Corporate Income Tax Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". SNL1996 cP-4.01 as amended 29. Subsection 7(3) of the Pension Benefits Act, 1997 is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". SNL2001-cP-10.1 30. Subsection 14(2) of the Petroleum Products Act is amended by deleting the words "or a justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cP-16 31. Subsection 8(2) of the Plant Protection Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cP-18 32. Subsection 9(2) of the Poultry and Poultry Products Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". SNL2000-cP-18.1 as amended 33. Subsection 13(2) of the Prepaid Funeral Services Act is amended by deleting the words "or a justice of the peace". SNL1995 cP-31.1 as amended 34. Paragraph 2(1)(c) of the Provincial Offences Act is repealed and the following substituted: (c) "judge" means a Provincial Court judge, and for the purpose of subsection 14(8), section 20, subsections 21(6), 22(2), 23(1), 23(3), paragraphs 26(1)(c) and 28(a), and subsections 30(1) and 51(1) includes a justice of the peace under the Justices Act; SNL1998 cQ-1.1 35. Subsection 16(2) of the Quarry Materials Act, 1998 is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cR-2 36. Subsection 30(3) of the Real Estate Trading Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cR-7 37. Paragraph 2(a.1) of the Recording of Evidence Act is amended by adding a comma immediately
after the words " SNL2000 cR-14.1 as amended 38. Subsection 34(4) of the Residential Tenancies Act, 2000 is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cR-15 as amended 39. Subsection 41(2) of the Retail Sales Tax Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". SNL1992 cR-17 40. Subsection 27(3) of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Act, 1992 is amended by deleting
the words and commas "or, where there is no RSNL1990 cS-8 41. Subsection 15(2) of the Salvage Dealers Licensing Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cS-15 42. Subsection 7(3) of the Shops' Closing Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cS-28 43. Subsection 28(1) of the Stock Savings Tax Credit Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cT-5 44. Subsection 41(2) of the Tobacco Tax Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cT-7 45. Subsection 9(3) of the Trade Practices Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cV-1 46. Subsection 5(3) of the Vegetable Grading Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cV-3 47. Subsection 31(1) of the Venture Capital Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". RSNL1990 cW-8 48. (1) Subsection 13(3) of the Wild Life Act is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". (2) Subsections 15(5), (6), (9) and (10) of the Act are amended by deleting the words "or justices". (3) Section 26 of the Act is amended by deleting the words and number "or 2 justices of the peace". (4) Subsections 29(1), (2), (3) and (4) of the Act are amended by deleting the words "or justices". CNLR 1161/96 Amdt. 49. Subsection 6(3) of the Commercial Vehicle Maintenance Standards Regulations is amended by deleting the words "justice of the peace" wherever it occurs, and substituting the words "Provincial Court judge". CNLR 1081/96 Amdt. 50. Section 8 of the Livestock Health Regulations is amended by deleting the words
"justice of the peace" and substituting the words " NLR 2/99 Amdt. 51. Rule 12.08(1) of the Provincial Court Family Rules is amended by deleting the words "or a justice of the peace". Rules of the Supreme
Court, 1986 Amdt. 52. (1) Rule 56B.04(1) of the Rules of the Supreme Court, 1986 is amended by deleting the words "clerk or other court official who is a justice of the peace" and substituting the words "judge of the court". (2) Rule 56B.04(2) of the rules is repealed and the following substituted: (2) The judge receiving the information in (1) (a) may refer the person laying the information to a court counsellor where children are involved or where immediate intervention to prevent danger to the applicant or a child is required; and (b) shall cause the person against whom the information has been laid to appear before him or her or another judge of the court and shall hold a hearing to inquire into the allegations contained in the information. (3) Rule 56B.04(4) of the rules is amended by deleting the words "the justice of the peace" and substituting the words "the judge". (4) Rule 56B.04(5) of the rules is amended by deleting the words " the justice of the peace" and substituting the words "the judge". (5) Rule 56B.04(6) of the rules is amended by deleting the words "justice of the peace" and substituting the words "judge". (6) Form A of the rules is repealed. NLR 59/03 Amdt. 53. Subsection 11(4) of the Waste Management Regulations, 2003 is amended by deleting the words "or justice of the peace". ŠEarl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer |