60

 


Second Session, 46th General Assembly

58 Elizabeth II, 2009

BILL 60

AN ACT TO AMEND THE RAIL SERVICE ACT, 2009

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE THOMAS J. HEDDERSON

Minister of Transportation and Works

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

  

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Railway Service Act, 2009 to allow the minister to cancel a permit to operate a railway where the permit holder fails to comply with an agreement between the permit holder and the government respecting the operation of the railway.

The amendment would come into force on the day the Railway Service Act, 2009 comes into force.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE RAIL
SERVICE ACT, 2009

Analysis


        1.   S.13 Amdt.
Cancellation of permit

        2.   Commencement


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

SNL2009 cR-1.2

        1. Subsection 13(3) of the Rail Service Act, 2009 is amended by adding immediately after paragraph (a) the following:

          (a.1)  the permit holder fails to comply with an agreement between the government and the permit holder pertaining to the operation of the rail service;

Commencement

        2. This Act comes into force on the day the Rail Service Act, 2009 comes into force.