Fourth

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2007

BILL 26

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

COMMISSIONERS FOR OATHS ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

TOM OSBORNE

Minister of Justice

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Commissioners for Oaths Act to revise

the manner of referring to certain employees of the government and health care

bodies who are, by virtue of the positions they occupy, commissioners for

oaths.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE COMMISSIONERS FOR OATHS

ACT

Analysis

S.7 R&S

Other commissioners

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cC-25

as amended

Section 7 of the Commissioners for Oaths Act is repealed and the following

substituted:

Other commissioners

(1) While they hold office and by virtue of their office, all employees employed by

the government and designated by a minister, or employed by a board established

under the Health and Community Services

Act or the Hospitals Act and designated

by the chief executive officer of the board are commissioners for oaths and

shall be so styled and may exercise within the province the powers conferred by

this Act.

(2) A person described in subsection (1) shall

write or stamp below his or her signature on an affidavit, declaration,

affirmation or certificate made before or given by the person as a commissioner

the words "A Commissioner for Oaths in and for Newfoundland and Labrador ".

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer