Second

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2009

BILL 14

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CITY OF

ST. JOHN 'S ACT

Received and Read the First Time ........................................................................... April 27, 2009

Second Reading ............................................................................................................ May

5, 2009

Committee

.............................................................................................

Amendment

May 14, 2009

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

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

HONOURABLE DIANNE C. WHELAN

Minister of Municipal Affairs

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the City of St. John's Act to reflect the period

of service that the members of the St. John's City

Council must serve in order to be eligible to receive pension benefits under

the city's pension plan.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE CITY OF

ST. JOHN 'S ACT

Analysis

S.343 Amdt.

Pension schemes

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cC-17 as

amended

1. Subsection 343(1) of the City of St. John's Act is repealed and the following substituted:

Pension schemes

(1) The

council is empowered to

(

a) establish a fund for the pensioning of

officials and employees of the council and of mayors, deputy mayors or councillors

who have served as mayors, deputy mayors or councillors for not less than 2

terms in the aggregate and cease to be mayors, deputy mayors or councillors;

and

(

b) make grants from the general funds of the city

for the purpose of paragraph (a).

Commencement

2. This Act shall be considered to have come into

force on July

26, 2004 .

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer