Fourth

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2011

BILL 14

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE CROWN ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

FELIX COLLINS

Minister of Justice and Attorney General

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would permit orders made

against the government under the Agreement on Internal Trade to be

enforced as a court order.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST THE

CROWN ACT

Analysis

S.16.1 Added

Enforcement of orders

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cP-26

as amended

1. The Proceedings

Against the Crown Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 16 the

following:

Enforcement of

orders

16.1

(1) In

this section, "Agreement on Internal Trade" means the Agreement on

Internal Trade, signed in 1994 by the Governments of Canada, the provinces,

Yukon and the Northwest Territories, as amended from time to time.

(2) A certified copy of an order made by a

presiding body under

Article 1706.1(4)(b), 1706.1(6), 1707(11)(

b) or 1716(3) of

the Agreement on Internal Trade that requires the Crown to pay tariff costs or

a monetary penalty, or both, may be filed with the Trial Division and, on being

filed, has the same force and effect as an order for the payment of money made

by the court against the Crown.

William E. Parsons, Queen's Printer