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Fourth Session, 46th General Assembly

60 Elizabeth II, 2011

BILL 28

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HEALTH RESEARCH
ETHICS AUTHORITY ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE JEROME P. KENNEDY, Q.C.

Minister of Health and Community Services

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

  

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Health Research Ethics Authority Act to clarify that in the event of a conflict between that Act and the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act will prevail.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HEALTH RESEARCH ETHICS AUTHORITY ACT

Analysis


        1.   S.2.1 Added
Labrador Inuit rights

        2.   Commencement


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

SNL2006 cH-1.2
as amended

        1. The Health Research Ethics Authority Act is amended by adding immediately after section 2 the following:

Labrador Inuit rights

      2.1 This Act and regulations made under this Act shall be read and applied in conjunction with the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act and, where a provision of this Act or regulations made under this Act is inconsistent or conflicts with a provision, term or condition of the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act, the provision, term or condition of the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act shall have precedence over the provision of this Act or a regulation made under this Act.

Commencement

        2. This Act comes into force on the day the Health Research Ethics Authority Act comes into force.