Third

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2006

BILL 36

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION ACT NO. 2

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

CLYDE JACKMAN

Minister of Environment and Conservation

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of this Bill is to add a

provision to the regulation making

section 111 of the Environmental Protection Act to allow the making of regulations

with respect to ticketable offences under that Act.

The amendment would also amend

section 115 of the Act to allow the

establishment of penalties for those ticketable

offences.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT NO. 2

Analysis

S.111 Amdt.

Regulations

S.115 Amdt.

Penalty

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2002 cE-14.2

as amended

1. Subsection 111(1) of the Environmental Protection Act is amended by adding immediately after

paragraph ( rr ) the following:

(rr.1) respecting ticketable offences and penalties

for those offences;

Section 115 of the Act is amended by adding

immediately after subsection (6) the following:

(7) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where, with

respect to an offence under this Act or regulations made under this Act, other

than under subsection 114(2), a complaint is laid and a summons issued by means

of a ticket in accordance with the Provincial

Offences Act, a person found guilty of that offence is liable on

summary

conviction to a fine that may be established by regulation.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer