Third

Session, 48th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2019

BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC

BODIES REPORTING ACT

Received

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

Second

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

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

Third

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

Royal

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

HONOURABLE TOM

OSBORNE

Minister

Responsible for Human Resources Secretariat

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Public Bodies Reporting Act to exclude

self-regulating professions created or continued under

an Act of the province from

the definition of public body.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PUBLIC BODIES REPORTING

ACT

Analysis

S.2 Amdt.

Definitions

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2018 cP-35.2

1. Paragraph 2(

g) of the Public Bodies Reporting Act is repealed and the following

substituted:

(g) "public body" includes

(

i) a corporation, the ownership of which, or a

majority of the shares of which is vested in the Crown and its subsidiaries,

and

(ii) a corporation, board, commission or other body,

the majority of the members of which, or a majority of the members of the board

of directors of which are appointed by

an Act, the Lieutenant-Governor in

Council or a minister,

but does not include a court established

under

an Act of the province.

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