Fourth

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2011

BILL 28

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

HEALTH RESEARCH

ETHICS AUTHORITY ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

JEROME P. KENNEDY, Q.C.

Minister of Health and Community Services

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Health Research Ethics Authority Act to

clarify that in the event of a conflict between that Act and the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act the

Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act will

prevail.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HEALTH RESEARCH ETHICS

AUTHORITY ACT

Analysis

S.2.1 Added

Labrador Inuit rights

2. Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2006 cH-1.2

as amended

1. The Health

Research Ethics Authorit y Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 2 the following:

Labrador Inuit

rights

2.1 This

Act and regulations made under this Act shall be read and applied in

conjunction with the Labrador Inuit Land Claims

Agreement Act and, where a provision of this Act or regulations made under

this Act is inconsistent or conflicts with a provision, term or condition of

the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement

Act , the provision, term or condition of the Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act shall have precedence over

the provision of this Act or a regulation made under this Act.

Commencement

2. This Act comes into force on the day the Health Research Ethics Authority Act

comes into force.

William E. Parsons, Queen's Printer