Third

Session, 47th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2014

BILL 35

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

PROVINCIAL OFFENCES ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

DARIN T. KING

Government House Leader

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Provincial Offences Act to prohibit a

ticket being issued under subsection

18.1(8) of the Act to a young person as defined in the Young Persons

Offences Act i n respect of

an offence under the Highway Traffic Act or the Motorized Snow Vehicles

and All-Terrain Vehicles Act.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROVINCIAL OFFENCES ACT

Analysis

S.18.1 Amdt.

Ticket

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1995 c.P-31.1

as amended

Section 18.1 of the Provincial Offences Act is amended by adding immediately after

subsection (10) the following:

(11) Notwithstanding subsection (8), a peace officer or any other person having

responsibility for the enforcement of a provision of an enactment shall not

issue a ticket under subsection (8) to a young person as defined in the Young

Persons Offences Act in respect of an offence under the Highway Traffic

Act or the Motorized Snow Vehicles and All-Terrain Vehicles Act .

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