First Session, 45th General Assembly

53 Elizabeth II, 2004

BILL 27

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROVINCIAL OFFENCES ACT

Received and Read the First Time

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

HONOURABLE THOMAS W. MARSHALL, QC

Minister of Justice and Attorney General

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Provincial Offences Act to increase the late payment penalty provided for in

section 32 of that Act.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROVINCIAL OFFENCES ACT

Analysis

1. S.32(2) R&S

Late payment penalty

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1995 cP-31.1

as amended

1. Subsection 32(2) of the Provincial Offences Act is repealed and the following substituted:

(2) The late payment penalty referred to in subsection (1) shall be

(

a) in the case of a fine which is $50 or less than $50, $6;

(

b) in the case of a fine which is greater than $50 and less than or equal to $100, $12; and

(

c) in the case of a fine which is greater than $100, $12 plus an additional late payment penalty of $12 for each increment of a $100 fine or part of a $100 up to a maximum late payment penalty of $120.

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