First Session, 48th

General Assembly

65 Elizabeth II,

BILL 42

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HIGHWAY

TRAFFIC ACT NO. 3

Received

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

Second

Reading ............................................................................................

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

Third

Reading ...............................................................................................

Royal

Assent .................................................................................................

HONOURABLE EDDIE

JOYCE

Minister of Service

Newfoundland and Labrador

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

The Bill would amend the Highway Traffic Act to

provide for longer licence

suspensions where a person is convicted of certain impaired driving offences

under the Criminal Code ( Canada ); and

eliminate a conflict with the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act ( Canada ).

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC ACT NO. 3

Analysis

S.65 Amdt.

Suspension or cancellation

S.81 Amdt.

Registrar shall suspend licence

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cH-3

as amended

1. Subsection 65(1.1) of the Highway Traffic Act is repealed

and the following substituted:

(1.1) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the registrar

shall by written order suspend or cancel the driver's licence or driving

privileges of a person who has been convicted of an offence committed anywhere

in Canada

(

a) under subsection 255(2), (2.1) or (2.2) of the

Criminal Code , for a period of 10

years; or

(

b) under subsection 255(3), (3.1) or (3.2) of the

Criminal Code , for life.

2. Subsection 81(2) of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

(2) Where a driver's licence or vehicle licence is

suspended under subsection (1), the licence shall remain suspended and shall

not afterward be renewed, nor shall a driver's licence or vehicle licence be

afterward issued to that person, until the judgment referred to in subsection

(1) is satisfied or discharged to the extent to which financial responsibility

is required to be given under

section 76, and until that person gives proof of

his or her financial responsibility.

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