2009 BILL 57

Second

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2009

BILL 57

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

TEACHERS'

PENSIONS ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

THOMAS W. MARSHALL, Q.C.

Minister of Finance and President of Treasury Board

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Teachers' Pensions Act to allow teachers

to purchase pensionable service for periods of absence due to a lawful strike

or lock out for a period of time agreed to as part of the Newfoundland and

Labrador Teachers' Association Collective Agreement.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE TEACHERS'

PENSIONS ACT

Analysis

S.12.1 Amdt.

Strike and lockout

Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1991 c17

as amended

(1) Subsection 12.1(2) of the Teachers' Pensions Act is repealed and

the following substituted:

(2) Where a teacher has had a period of absence

due to a lawful strike or lockout that occurred before September 1, 2008 , and wishes to purchase pensionable service for that period of

absence, that teacher must, not later than June 30, 2009 ,

elect to have that period of absence credited as pensionable service.

(2) Subsection 12.1(3) of the Act is amended by

deleting the date " September 1, 2002 " and

substituting the date " September 1, 2008 ".

Commencement

2. This Act shall be considered to have come into

force on March

9, 2009 .

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer