First

Session, 47th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2012

BILL 57

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

DARIN KING

Minister of Justice

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation

Act to enable the creation of regulations to provide workplace health,

safety and compensation coverage to volunteers engaged in search and rescue

activities and auxiliary policing services.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE WORKPLACE HEALTH,

SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT

Analysis

S.40 Amdt.

Coverage for particular workers

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cW-11

as amended

1. Subsection 40(1) of the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act is amended by

deleting the word "and" at the end of paragraph (f), by deleting the

comma at the end of paragraph (

g) and replacing it with a semicolon, and by

adding immediately after paragraph (

g) the following:

(

h) volunteers engaged in search and rescue

activities as tasked by the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary or the Royal Canadian

Mounted Police; and

(

i) volunteers engaged in auxiliary policing

services,

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