Third

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2006

BILL 22

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

WORKPLACE HEALTH, SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

PAUL SHELLEY

Minister

of Human Resources, Labour and Employment

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would add a proposed

subsection 65(1.1) to the Workplace

Health, Safety and Compensation Act to allow the payment of compensation

benefits to surviving spouses who remarried before 1985. This would be

retroactive to April 17, 1985 .

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORKPLACE HEALTH,

SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT

Analysis

S.65.1 Amdt.

Payment to a remarried spouse

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cW-11 as

amended

(1) Section 65.1 of the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation

Act is amended by adding immediately after subsection (1) the following:

(1.1) A person whose monthly allowance as a

surviving dependent spouse was terminated before April 17, 1985 due to his or

her remarriage is entitled to receive the compensation that he or she would

have received on or after April 17, 1985 had the monthly allowance not been

terminated.

(2) Section 65.1 of the Act is amended by adding

immediately after subsection (3) the following:

(3.1) Subsection (3) does not apply to an amount to

which a person is entitled under subsection (1.1) where he or she died after February 9, 2006 .

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer