Third

Session, 47th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2014

BILL 18

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

FISH PROCESSING

LICENSING BOARD ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

KEITH HUTCHINGS

Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Fish Processing Licensing Board Act to

allow members of the board to

continue in office upon the expiry of their terms until they are reappointed or

replaced; and

decrease the required minimum

number of meetings per year from 6 to 2.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FISH PROCESSING

LICENSING BOARD ACT

Analysis

S.6 Amdt.

Term of office

S.8 Amdt.

Operation of the board

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2004 cF-12.01

Section 6 of the Fish Processing Licensing Board Act is amended by adding

immediately after subsection (2) the following:

(2.1) Where the term of a member of the board

expires, he or she continues to be a member until reappointed or replaced.

2. Subsection 8(1) of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

Operation of the

board

(1) Meetings

of the board shall be scheduled at the call of the chairperson or, in his or

her absence, the vice-chairperson, but there shall be no fewer than 2 meetings

in a calendar year.

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