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Second Session, 48th General Assembly

66 Elizabeth II, 2017

BILL 4

AN ACT TO AMEND THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE ANDREW PARSONS, Q.C.

Government House Leader

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Intergovernmental Affairs Act to ensure consistency with the structure of government departments, branches, offices and secretariats.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS ACT

Analysis


        1.   S.3 R&S
Secretariat

        2.   S.4 R&S
Administration

        3.   S.5 Amdt.
Secretariat staff


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

RSNL1990 cI-13
as amended

        1. Section 3 of the Intergovernmental Affairs Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Secretariat

        3. There shall be a secretariat within Executive Council responsible for intergovernmental affairs.

 

        2. Section 4 of the Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Administration

        4. (1) The minister shall direct the administration of the secretariat.

             (2)  In exercising the powers and discharging the duties conferred or imposed on him or her by this Act, the minister shall act under a style of cause that includes reference to intergovernmental affairs.

 

        3. Subsections 5(1) and (2) of the Act are repealed and the following substituted:

Secretariat staff

        5. (1) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint, to hold office during pleasure, those deputy ministers and assistant deputy ministers that the Lieutenant-Governor in Council considers necessary for the proper conduct of the business of the secretariat.

             (2)  The deputy minister shall be the deputy head of the secretariat.