Second

Session, 50th General Assembly

Charles III, 2024

BILL 69

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY ACT NO. 2

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Second

Reading ............................................................................................

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Third

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Royal

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

HONOURABLE KRISTA

LYNN HOWELL

Minister of

Education

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Memorial

University Act to define "Newfoundland and Labrador resident" for

the purposes of admission to the Faculty of Medicine or other prescribed

faculties or schools of Memorial University.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY ACT

NO. 2

Analysis

Ss. 69 & 70 Added

69. Newfoundland and Labrador resident

70. Regulations

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cM-7

as amended

1. The Memorial

University Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 68 the

following:

Newfoundland and

Labrador resident

(1) Notwithstanding paragraphs 34(1)(

m) and 56(

c) and other provisions in this Act

related to admission to the university or a faculty or school of the

university, where the Faculty of Medicine or another faculty or school of the

university prescribed in the regulations reserves spaces for applicants who are

Newfoundland and Labrador residents, only an applicant who meets the definition

of Newfoundland and Labrador resident prescribed in subsection (2) shall be

entitled to a space reserved for a Newfoundland and Labrador resident.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1),

"Newfoundland and Labrador resident" means a person who meets one or

more of the following requirements:

(

a) the person is a citizen or permanent resident

of Canada and has completed, or is deemed by the Department of Education to

have completed, 4 years of school between grade 7 and level III in the province

no more than 12 years before the date of application to the faculty or school;

(

b) the person is a citizen or permanent resident

of Canada and the person's permanent address was located in the province for at

least 3 years immediately before the date of application to the faculty or

school; or

(

c) other requirements that may be prescribed in

the regulations.

(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), a

person's permanent address is considered to be located in the province where

(

a) the person physically resides in the province

for at least 10 months a year and does not attend a post-secondary institution

on a full-time or part-time basis; or

(

b) the person resides in the province for less

than 10 months a year but is employed in the province and the person physically

resides within 100 kilometres of the person's employment and does not attend a

post-secondary institution on a full-time or part-time basis.

Regulations

70. The

Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations

(

a) prescribing additional faculties or schools for

the purposes of subsection 69(1);

(

b) prescribing other requirements for the

purposes of paragraph 69(2)(c);

(

c) defining a word or

expression used but not defined in this Act; and

(

d) generally, to give

effect to the purpose of this Act.

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