First

Session, 48th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2016

BILL 31

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

LABOUR STANDARDS ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE PERRY TRIMPER

Minister of Environment and Conservation and

Minister Responsible for the Labour Relations Agency

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Labour Standards Act to establish a

procedure for issuing clearance certificates and impose a fee for those

certificates.

The Bill would also confirm that fees

for clearance certificates collected between April 1, 2013 and March 31, 2016

were validly imposed and collected.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE LABOUR

STANDARDS ACT

Analysis

Ss.65.1 & 65.2 Added

65.1 Clearance certificates

65.2 Fees previously

collected

2. Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cL-2

as amended

1. The Labour

Standards Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 65 the

following:

Clearance certificates

65.1

(1) The

minister shall establish a system to provide information respecting the status

of an employer under this Act, and may determine the information that may be

provided.

(2) A person may request a clearance certificate

from the minister via electronic means.

(3) A request under subsection (2) shall be

accompanied by the fee prescribed in subsection (4) and the information

required by the minister to identify the employer concerning whom the clearance

certificate is requested.

(4) The application fee for processing a clearance

certificate is $75.

(5) In this section, "clearance

certificate" means a certificate provided by the minister indicating the

status of an employer under this Act on the date the certificate is issued.

Fees previously

collected

65.2

(1) Notwithstanding

subsection 65.1(4), the application fee for processing a clearance certificate from

April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2016 is $50.

(2) An application fee for processing a clearance

certificate which was collected in the time period referred to in subsection

(1) is considered to have been validly imposed and collected.

Commencement

2. This Act comes into force 60 days after the day

on which it receives Royal Assent.

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