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Fourth Session,
45th General Assembly 56 Elizabeth II,
2007 |
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AN ACT TO AMEND THE HUMAN RIGHTS
CODE |
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Received and Read the First Time................................................................................................... |
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Committee............................................................................................................................................ |
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Royal Assent...................................................................................................................................... |
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HONOURABLE Minister of Justice |
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Ordered to be printed by
the Honourable House of Assembly |
EXPLANATORY NOTE This Bill would amend the Human Rights Code to provide that it
would constitute discrimination on the basis of age for an employer to dismiss
an employee on the ground that it was provided for in the terms and conditions
of a good faith retirement or pension plan applicable to the employee. The operation of such a retirement or pension
plan would otherwise remain unaffected. |
A AN ACT TO AMEND THE HUMAN RIGHTS CODE Analysis 1.
S.9 Amdt. 2. Commencement Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows: RSNL1990 cH-14 1. (1) Paragraph 9(5)(a) of the Human Rights Code is repealed and the following substituted: (a) prevent the operation of a good faith retirement or pension plan; (2) Section 9 of the Act is amended by adding immediately after subsection (5) the following: (5.1) Paragraph (5)(a) does not apply to a provision
of a good faith retirement or pension plan requiring a person to retire at an
age set out in the plan. Commencement 2. This Act comes into force on ŠEarl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer |