2009 BILL 58

Second

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2009

BILL 58

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

ORDER OF NEWFOUNDLAND

AND LABRADOR ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE KATHY DUNDERDALE

Deputy Premier

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador Act

to provide that representatives of local governments would not be eligible to

receive the Order while they are in office.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ORDER OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR ACT

Analysis

S.8 Amdt.

Eligibility for membership

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2001 cO-7.1

as amended

1. Subsection 8(3) of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador Act is repealed and the following substituted:

(3) The following are not eligible to be nominated

for or to receive the Order while they are in office:

(

a) members of the House of Assembly or the

legislative assembly of a province, or members of the Senate or the House of

Commons of Canada;

(

b) members of the St. John's Municipal Council,

the Corner Brook City Council, the Mount Pearl City Council, or of a town council,

regional council or local service district committee continued or established

under the Municipalities Act, 1999,

or of a council of a similarly constituted local government in another province;

(

c) members of an assembly or local government

established under a land claims agreement made under

section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 (Canada), and

members of a band council established in accordance with the Indian Act (Canada); and

(

d) judges of a court.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer