Third

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2006

BILL 24

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

WORKPLACE HEALTH, SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT NO. 2

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

PAUL SHELLEY

Minister

of Human Resources, Labour and Employment

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation

Act to expand the immunity from legal action provided by the Act to include

officers and employees of the commission, in addition to directors, and all

actions performed or omitted to be performed in good faith.

The Bill would also amend the Act to

extend the same protection from liability to officers, employees, advisors and

commissioners of the review division.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

WORKPLACE HEALTH, SAFETY AND COMPENSATION ACT NO. 2

Analysis

1. S.14 R&S

Action barred

2. S.24.1 Added

Action barred

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cW-11

as amended

Section 14 of the Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

Action barred

14. An

action or other proceeding does not lie against the commission or a director,

officer or employee of the commission for anything done or omitted to be done

in good faith in the course of exercising a power or carrying out a duty under

this Act.

2. The Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 24 the following:

Action barred

24.1 An

action or other proceeding does not lie against the chief review commissioner,

the other review commissioners and the officers, employees and advisors of the

review division for anything done or omitted to be done in good faith in the

course of exercising a power or carrying out a duty under this Act.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer