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Fourth Session, 45th General Assembly

56 Elizabeth II, 2007

BILL 30

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HISTORIC
RESOURCES ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE TOM HEDDERSON

Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

  

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Historic Resources Act by repealing all references to "registered historic site" and replacing those references with "registered provincial cultural resource".  The effect of the amendments would be to permit the minister to declare a site, event, person, or tradition of historical or cultural significance to be a registered provincial cultural resource and included in the Registry of Historic Resources under section 15 of the Act.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HISTORIC
RESOURCES ACT

Analysis


        1.   S.2 Amdt.
Definitions

        2.   S.15 Amdt.
Registry of Historic Resources

        3.   S.17 R&S
Registered provincial cultural resource

        4.   S.18 Amdt.
Damage to site


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

RSNL1990 cH-4
as amended

        1. Paragraph 2(m) of the Historic Resources Act is repealed and the following substituted:

            (m)  "registered provincial cultural resource" means a site, event, person or cultural tradition that is the subject of a declaration under section 17;

 

        2. (1) Paragraph 15(2)(b) of the Act is repealed and the following substituted:

             (b)  registered provincial cultural resources;

             (2)  Paragraph 15(3)(b) of the Act is repealed and the following substituted:

             (b)  registered provincial cultural resource;

 

        3. Section 17 of the Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Registered provincial cultural resources

      17. (1) The minister may declare a site, event, person or cultural tradition in the province that is considered by the minister to be of historical or cultural significance to be a registered provincial cultural resource.

             (2)  The minister may by means of a plaque or sign or in another suitable manner mark or otherwise commemorate a registered provincial cultural resource.

             (3)  The minister may make an agreement with a person, municipality or other entity for marking or commemorating a registered provincial cultural resource, including an agreement respecting the installation, inspection and maintenance of a plaque or sign, and the care and preservation of that resource.

 

        4. Section 18 of the Act is amended by striking out the words "registered historic site" where they twice occur and substituting the words "registered provincial cultural resource".