Third

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2006

BILL 43

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

VITAL STATISTICS ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

DIANNE WHALEN

Minister

of Government Services

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would repeal and replace

section 22 of the Vital Statistics Act

so that fees paid to registering officers for forwarding notification of the

births and deaths occurring in their region to the Registrar General would be

set by the Minister of Government Services. Presently the fee amount is stated

section 22 of the Act and may be increased by an order of the

Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE VITAL STATISTICS ACT

Analysis

S.22 R&S

Fees for registering officers

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cV-6

as amended

Section 22 of the Vital Statistics Act is repealed and the following is substituted:

Fees for

registering officers

(1) A

registering officer who, in accordance with

section 7, forwards to the

Registrar General extracts from the registers kept by the registering officer

of births and deaths occurring in his or her locality is entitled to be paid a

fee for events registered and forwarded.

(2) The minister appointed under the Executive Council Act to administer this

Act may set the fees payable and the time and manner of their payment to a

registering officer under subsection (1).

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer