50

 


 

Third Session, 48th General Assembly

68 Elizabeth II, 2019

BILL 50

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC BODIES REPORTING ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE TOM OSBORNE

Minister Responsible for Human Resources Secretariat

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

 

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Public Bodies Reporting Act to exclude self-regulating professions created or continued under an Act of the province from the definition of public body.


A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC BODIES REPORTING ACT

Analysis


        1.   S.2 Amdt.
Definitions


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

SNL2018 cP-35.2

        1. Paragraph 2(g) of the Public Bodies Reporting Act is repealed and the following substituted:

             (g)  "public body" includes

                      (i)  a corporation, the ownership of which, or a majority of the shares of which is vested in the Crown and its subsidiaries, and

                     (ii)  a corporation, board, commission or other body, the majority of the members of which, or a majority of the members of the board of directors of which are appointed by an Act, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council or a minister,

but does not include a court established under an Act of the province.