Second

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2005

BILL 67

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

LOYOLA SULLIVAN

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 Public Service Commission Act to extend

its application to certain employees of the House of Assembly and the statutory

offices of the House of Assembly.

The Bill would also revise

Schedule A

of the Act; it has become outdated.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC SERVICE

COMMISSION ACT

Analysis

S.2 Amdt.

Definitions

S.4 Amdt.

Non-application

S.15 Amdt.

Duties of Commission

4. Sch. A R&S

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cP-43

as amended

(1) Subparagraph 2(c)(ii) of the Public Service Commission Act is repealed

and the following substituted:

(ii) the Clerk of the House of Assembly,

(ii.1) a person appointed to preside over a statutory

office of the House of Assembly,

(2) Paragraph 2(

k) of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

(k) "public service" means

(

i) the departments and other portions of the

public service of the province specified in

Schedule A,

(ii) an office, body or

agency considered by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to be a portion of the

public service and added to

Schedule A under

section 3, and

(iii) the House of Assembly establishment and the

statutory offices of the House of Assembly;

2. Paragraphs 4(1)(a), (

b) and (

c) of the Act are repealed

and the following substituted:

(

a) the following officers of the House of

Assembly and staff of the House of Assembly establishment:

(

i) the Clerk, Clerk Assistant and

Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Assembly,

(ii) the Auditor General,

(iii) the Citizens' Representative,

(iv) the Child and Youth Advocate,

(

v) the Commissioner of Members' Interests,

(vi) the Chief Electoral Officer,

(vii) the Information and Privacy Commissioner, and

(viii) political staff as defined in paragraph

2(1)(

e) of the Conflict of Interest Act,

1995 ;

(

b) a position compensated under the executive pay

plan;

Section 15 of the Act is amended by renumbering

it as subsection (1) and by adding immediately after subsection (1) the following:

(2) Where a report referred to in paragraph (1)(

b) relates to a personnel transaction involving the House of Assembly establishment

or a statutory office of the House of Assembly, the report shall be made to the

Speaker of the House of Assembly.

Schedule A of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

Schedule A

1. A department established under the Executive Council Act

2. The Executive Council Office

3. C.A.

Pippy Park Commission

4. College of the North Atlantic

5. Government Purchasing Agency

6. Municipal Assessment Agency

7. Newfoundland

and Labrador Public Service Commission

8. The Rooms Corporation of Newfoundland

and Labrador

9. The Provincial Information and Library

Resources Board

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer