Fourth

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2011

BILL 23

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

CROP INSURANCE ACT AND THE LIVESTOCK INSURANCE ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE SHAWN SKINNER

Minister of Natural Resources

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Crop Insurance Act to clarify that advances

for working capital may be made to the Newfoundland and Labrador Crop Insurance

Agency in each financial year and to clarify the timing of the appeal mechanism

provided for in that Act.

The Bill would amend the Livestock Insurance Act to clarify that

advances for working capital may be made to the Livestock Owners Compensation Board

in each financial year.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CROP INSURANCE ACT AND

THE LIVESTOCK INSURANCE ACT

Analysis

CROP

INSURANCE ACT

S.10.1 Amdt.

Appeals

S.12 Amdt.

Establishment of fund

LIVESTOCK

INSURANCE ACT

S.13 Amdt.

Fund continued

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

CROP INSURANCE ACT

RSNL1990 cC-39 as

amended

1. Subsection 10.1(1) of the Crop Insurance Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Appeals

10.1

(1) An

insured person may file an appeal in respect of

(

a) an act of the agency, its officers or agents,

within 14 days of the disputed act; and

(

b) a finding, order or decision of the agency,

its officers or agents, within 14 days of receiving notice of the finding, order

or decision.

2. Subsection 12(2) of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

(2) The Minister of Finance, with the approval of

the Lieutenant-Governor in Council and on the written requisition of the

minister, may advance to the agency for use as working capital those sums that

may be stated in the requisition, but the total advances made in each financial

year under this subsection shall not exceed $100,000.

LIVESTOCK INSURANCE ACT

RSNL1990 cL-23

as amended

3. Subsection 13(2) of the Livestock Insurance Act is repealed and the following substituted:

(2) The Minister of Finance, with the approval of

the Lieutenant-Governor in Council and on the written request of the minister,

may advance to the board for use as working capital those sums that may be

stated in the requisition, but the total advances made in each financial year

under this subsection shall not exceed $50,000.

William E. Parsons, Queen's Printer