role="main" class="main-container container js-quickedit-main-content" id="main-content">

Bill 224, Safer Driving Tests Act (Ending the Privatization Failure), 2024

Mantha, Michael

Please select

View bill

Status

Debates

Acts affected

Original

Bill 224 Original (PDF)

EXPLANATORY

NOTE

Subsection

32 (5) of the Highway Traffic Act provides that the

Minister of Transportation may require persons to submit to examinations and to

meet other prescribed requirements in connection with obtaining a driver’s

licence. The Bill amends the Act to require that those examinations and

requirements be administered by an employee of the Ministry of Transportation.

Bill 224 2024

Act to amend the Highway Traffic Act with respect to driving examinations

His

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

Subsection 32 (6) of the Highway Traffic Act is

repealed and the following substituted:

Ministry

to conduct examinations

(6) An

employee of the Ministry shall conduct the examinations required under

subsection (5) and shall ensure that applicants meet any other prescribed

requirements described in that subsection.

Commencement

This Act comes into force on the later of January 1, 2026 and the day that is

six months after the day this Act receives Royal Assent.

Short title

The

short title of this Act is the Safer Driving Tests Act

(Ending the Privatization Failure), 2024 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

November 19, 2024

First Reading

Ordered for Second Reading

November 19, 2024

First Reading

Vote

Carried

First Reading

November 19, 2024

Carried

Ordered for Second Reading