Second Session, 48th General Assembly

66 Elizabeth II, 2017

BILL 2

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ACCOUNTABILITY,

INTEGRITY AND ADMINISTRATION ACT

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Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE ANDREW

PARSONS, Q.C.

Government House

Leader

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House

of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the House of Assembly

Accountability, Integrity and Administration Act to

give effect to the Members' Compensation Review Committee recommendations

approved on February 27, 2017.

A BILL

AN ACT

TO AMEND THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ACCOUNTABILITY, INTEGRITY AND ADMINISTRATION ACT

Analysis

S.11 Amdt.

Salaries, expenses, severance and pensions

S.12 R&S

Other remuneration

3. Commencement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2007 cH-10.1

as amended

Section 11 of the House of Assembly Accountability, Integrity and Administration Act

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

(1.1) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a member's

annual salary shall be adjusted by a percentage that is an average of the

percentage salary adjustment under each of the following collective agreements:

(

a) the General Service Collective Agreement;

(

b) the Health Professionals Collective Agreement;

(

c) the Registered Nurses' Union of Newfoundland and Labrador

Collective Agreement; and

(

d) the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary Collective Agreement.

(1.2) The adjustment referred to in subsection

(1.1) shall be applied

(

a) first, within 30 days after the date that the

last of the agreements referred to in subsection (1.1) is finalized after the

coming into force of that subsection; and

(

b) after that, within 30 days after the date that

the last of the collective agreements referred to in subsection (1.1) is finalized

from time to time.

(1.3) A member's annual salary adjusted under

subsection (1.1) shall be paid in 26 equal instalments, in arrears.

Section 12 of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

Other

remuneration

(1) A

member who holds one of the following positions shall be paid an additional

salary as follows:

(

a) speaker, $48,665;

(

b) deputy speaker and chair of committees

$12,166;

(

c) leader of the official opposition, $48,665;

(

d) official opposition house leader, $24,330;

(

e) leader of a third party, $24,330;

(

f) third party house leader, $12,166;

(

g) chairperson of the public accounts committee,

$12,166; and

(

h) vice chairperson of the public accounts committee,

$9,300.

(2) The salaries referred to in subsection

(1) shall be payable in 26 equal instalments, in arrears.

(3) A member who sits on a committee of the House

of Assembly, the commission or a committee of the commission, shall not be paid

for attendance at meetings.

(4) A member who sits on a committee of the House

of Assembly, the commission or a committee of the commission may be reimbursed

reasonable expenses in relation to attendance at meetings when the House is not

in session.

(5) Where a member who holds a position referred

to in paragraph (1)(

a) or (

b) is, due to illness or disability, absent and

unable to carry out the duties of his or her position for a period of more than

10 consecutive sitting days of the House of Assembly,

(

a) a member referred to in paragraph (1)(

b) who

carries out the duties of a member referred to in paragraph (1)(a); or

(

b) another member appointed to carry out the

duties of a member referred to in paragraph (1)(b),

is, after the expiration of those 10 days,

and until the return to duties of the absent member or the appointment of a new

member to the absent member's position, entitled to a salary referred to in

subsection (1) for the position he or she replaces, without affecting the

salary of the absent member.

Commencement

3. This Act is considered to have come into force

on April 1, 2017.

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