Second Session, 44th General Assembly

49 Elizabeth II, 2000

BILL 18

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS ACT

Received and Read the First

Time

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

HONOURABLE JOAN-MARIE AYLWARD

Minister of Municipal and Provincial Affairs

Ordered to be printed by the

Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Municipal Affairs Act

to provide that where a member of a municipal authority has, during

a previous term of office, managed the affairs of that municipal

authority improperly, the minister may direct the appropriate action

to be taken against that member, or, with the approval of the

Lieutenant Governor in Council, dismiss that member.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MUNICIPAL

AFFAIRS ACT

Analysis

1. S.6 Amdt.

Procedure on irregularity

Be it enacted by the

Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative

Session convened, as follows:

SN1995 c M-20.1

Section 6 of the Municipal Affairs Act is

amended by adding immediately after subsection (1) the following:

(1.1) Where the minister is satisfied,

upon the report of an inspector appointed under

section 4 or in

another manner, that during a previous term of office of a member of

a municipal authority, that member managed the affairs of the

municipal authority in an irregular, improper or improvident manner,

the minister may by order in writing

(

a) direct the municipal authority to

take the action against that member that the minister

considers necessary or advisable in the circumstances; or

(

b) subject to the approval of the

Lieutenant Governor in Council, dismiss that member of the

municipal authority.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer