First

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2008

BILL 8

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY RETIRING ALLOWANCES ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE THOMAS W. MARSHALL, Q.C .

Minister of Finance and President of Treasury Board

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Members of

the House of Assembly Retiring Allowances Act to repeal and replace the

definition of MHA salary.

This amendment is consistent with the

recommendations of the Green Report and the House

of Assembly Accountability, Integrity and Administration Act.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF

ASSEMBLY RETIRING

ALLOWANCES ACT

Analysis

S.2 Amdt.

Interpretation

Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2005 cM-6.1

as amended

1. Paragraph 2(1 )(

g) of

the Members of the House of Assembly

Retiring Allowances Act is repealed and the following substituted:

(g) "MHA salary" means

(

i) for members

elected for the first time to the 46th General Assembly, the salary authorized

by the legislature to be paid to an MHA and the amount that the Minister of

Finance may prescribe in a directive under this Act, and

(ii) for members elected

before the 46th General Assembly,

(

A) the salary authorized

by the Legislature to be paid to an MHA up to June 30, 2007 ,

(B) 81.2% of the salary authorized by the

Legislature to be paid to an MHA from July 1, 2007 ;

and

(

C) an amount that the

Minister of Finance may prescribe in a directive under this Act;

Commencement

2. This Act shall be considered to have come into

force on July

1, 2007 .

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer