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Third Session, 46th General Assembly

59 Elizabeth II, 2010

BILL 39

AN ACT TO AMEND THE JUSTICES AND PUBLIC AUTHORITIES PROTECTION ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE FELIX COLLINS

Minister of Justice and Attorney General

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Justices and Public Authorities Protection Act to remove its application to Provincial Court judges. The protection it provided to them in the exercise of their duties is in duplication of protection provided under the Provincial Court Act, 1991.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE JUSTICES AND PUBLIC AUTHORITIES PROTECTION ACT

Analysis


        1.   S.2 Amdt.
Definitions


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

RSNL1990 cJ–7
as amended

        1. Paragraph 2(b) of the Justices and Public Authorities Protection Act is repealed and the following substituted:

             (b)  "justice" means a justice of the peace.