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CHAPTER E-15.1

EVACUATED COMMUNITIES ACT, 2016

Amended:

CHAPTER E-15.1

AN ACT RESPECTING THE RELOCATION OF CERTAIN COMMUNITIES IN THE PROVINCE

(Assented to December 14, 2016)

Analysis

Short title

Definitions

Order

Permits

Regulations

Retroactive effect

Offence

Transitional

RSNL1990 cE-15 Rep.

Schedule

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Evacuated Communities Act, 2016

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Definitions

In this Act

(a)

"minister" means the minister appointed under the Executive Council Act

to administer this Act;

(b)

"order" means an order made under

section 3;

(c)

"permit" means a permit issued under

section 4; and

(d)

"vacated community" means a community in which the majority of inhabitants have moved from the community with financial assistance from the province.

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Order

(1)The minister may by order declare a community to be a vacated community.

(2) An order

made under subsection (1) shall be published

in the Gazette

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Permits

(1)A person shall not erect a building or occupy a building which he or she erects or another building in a vacated community listed in the

Schedule except

(

a) under a permit;

(

b) for the purposes stated in the permit; and

(c)

(2) The minister may issue a permit in writing to a person for the purpose of erecting or occupying a building in a vacated community listed in the Schedule.

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Regulations

(1)The minister may make regulations

(

a) prescribing the form of a permit;

(

b) prescribing the purposes for which a permit may be issued;

(c)

(

d) generally, to give effect to the purpose of this Act.

(2) Different regulations may be made in respect of different vacated communities or in respect of the same vacated community in different circumstances.

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Retroactive effect

Regulations and orders made under this Act may be made with retroactive effect.

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Offence

A person who builds or occupies a building in a vacated community listed in the

Schedule

(

a) without a permit;

(

b) for a purpose other than that stated in a permit; or

(

c) is guilty of an offence and liable upon

summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $200 and in default of payment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or to both a fine and imprisonment.

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Transitional

On the coming into force of this Act, a valid permit issued under the Evacuated Communities Act

shall continue to be valid as though it were a permit issued under this Act until the permit expires.

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RSNL1990 cE-15 Rep.

The Evacuated Communities Act

is repealed.

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Schedule

Big Brook

Grand Bruit

Great Harbour Deep

Petites

Round Harbour

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