First

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2008

BILL 32

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ACCOUNTABILITY, INTEGRITY AND ADMINISTRATION ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE THOMAS G. RIDEOUT

Government House Leader

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Clause 1 of the Bill would amend

section 12 of the House of Assembly

Accountability, Integrity and Administration Act to provide for remuneration for temporary replacements of office

holders where those officer holders are unable to carry out their

responsibilities.

Clause 2 of the Bill would amend

section 18 of the Act to allow a member of the commission to serve concurrently

as a member of the Public Accounts Committee where necessary.

Clause 3 of the Bill is a

commencement clause.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY

ACCOUNTABILITY, INTEGRITY AND ADMINISTRATION ACT

Analysis

S.12 Amdt.

Other remuneration

S.18 Amdt.

House of Assembly Management Commission

Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2007 cH-10.1

Section 12 of the House of Assembly Accountability, Integrity and Administration Act

is amended by adding immediately after subsection (4) the following:

(5) Where a member who holds a position referred

to in paragraph (1)(a), (b), or (

c) is, due to illness or disability, absent

and unable to carry out the duties of his or her position for a period of more

than 10 consecutive sitting days of the House of Assembly,

(

a) a member referred to in paragraph (1)(

b) or

(

c) who carries out the duties of a member referred to in paragraph (1)(

a) or

(b); or

(

b) another member

appointed to carry out the duties of a member referred to in paragraph (1)(c),

is , after the expiration of those 10 days, and until the return to

duties of the absent member or the appointment of a new member to the absent

member's position, entitled to a salary referred to in subsection (1) for the

position he or she replaces, without affecting the salary of the absent member.

Section 18 of the Act is amended by adding

immediately after subsection (5) the following:

(5.1) Notwithstanding subsection (5), where the

number of members sitting in the House of Assembly in opposition to the

government is insufficient to allow the appointment of 3 of those members to

the Public Accounts Committee and still comply with that subsection, a member

of the commission may serve concurrently as a member of the commission and a

member of the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Assembly.

Commencement

Section 1 of this Act shall be considered to

have come into force on March 10, 2008 .

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer