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Third Session, 45th General Assembly

55 Elizabeth II, 2006

BILL 22

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORKPLACE HEALTH, SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE PAUL SHELLEY

Minister of Human Resources, Labour and Employment

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

  

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would add a proposed subsection 65(1.1) to the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act to allow the payment of compensation benefits to surviving spouses who remarried before 1985. This would be retroactive to April 17, 1985.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORKPLACE HEALTH, SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT

Analysis


        1.   S.65.1 Amdt.
Payment to a remarried spouse


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

RSNL1990 cW-11 as amended

        1. (1) Section 65.1 of the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act is amended by adding immediately after subsection (1) the following:

          (1.1)  A person whose monthly allowance as a surviving dependent spouse was terminated before April 17, 1985 due to his or her remarriage is entitled to receive the compensation that he or she would have received on or after April 17, 1985 had the monthly allowance not been terminated.

             (2)  Section 65.1 of the Act is amended by adding immediately after subsection (3) the following:

          (3.1)  Subsection (3) does not apply to an amount to which a person is entitled under subsection (1.1) where he or she died after February 9, 2006.