Second

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2005

BILL 66

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

TOBACCO HEALTH

CARE COSTS RECOVERY ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

THOMAS W. MARSHALL ,

Minister

of Justice and Attorney General

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Tobacco Health Care Costs Recovery Act

to include the words "in the province" in the definition of

"tobacco related wrong".

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE TOBACCO HEALTH CARE

COSTS RECOVERY ACT

Analysis

S.2 Amdt.

Definitions

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2001 cT-4.2

as amended

1. Paragraph 2(

m) of the Tobacco Health Care Costs Recovery Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

(m) "tobacco related wrong" means a

breach of a common law, equitable or statutory duty or obligation owed by a

manufacturer to persons in the province who have been exposed or might become

exposed to a tobacco product;

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer