Fourth

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2007

BILL 30

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

HISTORIC

RESOURCES ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

TOM HEDDERSON

Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Historic Resources Act by repealing all

references to "registered historic site" and replacing those

references with "registered provincial cultural resource". The effect of the amendments would be to

permit the minister to declare a site, event, person, or tradition of

historical or cultural significance to be a registered provincial cultural

resource and included in the Registry of Historic Resources under

section 15 of

the Act.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HISTORIC

RESOURCES ACT

Analysis

S.2 Amdt.

Definitions

S.15 Amdt.

Registry of Historic Resources

S.17 R&S

Registered provincial cultural resource

S.18 Amdt.

Damage to site

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cH-4

as amended

1. Paragraph 2(

m) of the Historic Resources Act is repealed and the following substituted:

(m) "registered provincial cultural

resource" means a site, event, person or cultural tradition that is the

subject of a declaration under

section 17;

2. (1) Paragraph 15(2)(

b) of the Act is

repealed and the following substituted:

(

b) registered provincial cultural resources;

(2) Paragraph 15(3)(

b) of the Act is repealed and

the following substituted:

(

b) registered provincial cultural resource;

Section 17 of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

Registered provincial

cultural resources

(1) The

minister may declare a site, event, person or cultural tradition in the

province that is considered by the minister to be of historical or cultural

significance to be a registered provincial cultural resource.

(2) The minister may by means of a plaque or sign

or in another suitable manner mark or otherwise commemorate a registered provincial

cultural resource.

(3) The minister may make an agreement with a

person, municipality or other entity for marking or commemorating a registered

provincial cultural resource, including an agreement respecting the installation,

inspection and maintenance of a plaque or sign, and the care and preservation

of that resource.

Section 18 of the Act is amended by striking

out the words "registered historic site" where they twice occur and

substituting the words "registered provincial cultural resource".

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer