First

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2008

BILL 9

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

SUPPORT ORDERS

ENFORCEMENT ACT, 2006

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE JEROME P. KENNEDY, Q.C .

Minister of Justice and Attorney General

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Support Orders Enforcement Act, 2006 to clarify

that solicitor-client privilege is exempt from the operation of subsection

11(5) of the Act.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE SUPPORT ORDERS

ENFORCEMENT ACT, 2006

Analysis

S.11 Amdt.

Access by director to information

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2006 cS-31.1

as amended

1. Subsection 11(5) of the Support Orders Enforcement Act, 2006 is repealed and the following

substituted:

(5) This

section applies despite another Act or

regulation and despite a common law rule of confidentiality or privilege,

except solicitor-client privilege.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer