Third

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2010

BILL 42

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

REGIONAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

JEROME P. KENNEDY, Q.C .

Minister of Health and Community Services

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would provide that a

regional health authority is exempt from the Public Tender Act with respect to its acquisition of goods and

services through a group purchasing organization of which it is a member.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE REGIONAL HEALTH

AUTHORITIES ACT

Analysis

1. Ss.17.1 to 17.3 Added

17.1 Group purchasing

organizations

17.2 Exemption from

Public

Tender Act

17.3 Report to the

minister

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2006 cR-7.1

1. The Regional

Health Authorities Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 17

the following:

Group purchasing

organizations

17.1

(1) An

authority, with the prior approval of the minister, may join a group purchasing

organization.

(2) An authority that joined a group purchasing

organization before this

section came into force is considered to have joined

with the approval of the minister.

Exemption from Public Tender Act

17.2

(1) An

authority is exempt from the Public

Tender Act with respect to goods and services that it acquires through a

group purchasing organization of which it is a member.

(2) An authority that acquired goods and services

through a group purchasing organization before this

section came into force is

considered to have been exempt from the Public

Tender Act with respect to that acquisition.

Report to the

minister

17.3

(1) An

authority shall report to the minister on its acquisition of goods and services

through a group purchasing organization and shall include a

summary of

contracts entered into and the identities of suppliers to whom the contracts

have been awarded every 6 months.

(2) The minister shall make the reports required

under subsection (1) public by

(

a) presenting them to the House of Assembly; and

(

b) other effective means, including

electronically.

(3) Section 19.1 of the House of Assembly Act applies to a report referred to in subsection

(2) as if it were a report of an officer of the House of Assembly.

Earl G. Tucker,

Queen's Printer