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First Session, 51st General Assembly 3 Charles III, 2026
BILL 21
AN ACT TO AMEND THE JUDICATURE ACT
Received and Read the First Time................................................................
Second Reading............................................................................................
Committee.....................................................................................................
Third Reading...............................................................................................
Royal Assent.................................................................................................
HONOURABLE HELEN CONWAY OTTENHEIMER Minister of Justice and Public Safety and Attorney General
Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Judicature Act to remove the judicial areas that are prescribed in the Act and allow all judicial areas to be prescribed in the regulations.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE JUDICATURE ACT

Analysis

1. S.43.5 Amdt.
Judicial area

2. Commencement

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

RSNL1990 cJ-4
as amended

1. Subsections 43.5(4) to (7) of the Judicature Act are repealed.

Commencement

2. This Act comes into force on April 1, 2027.

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