First Session, 45th General Assembly

53 Elizabeth II, 2004

BILL 52

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PENSION BENEFITS ACT, 1997

Received and Read the First Time

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

HONOURABLE LOYOLA SULLIVAN

Minister of Finance and President of Treasury Board

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Pension Benefits Act, 1997 to provide

for the appointment of a Deputy Superintendent of Pensions to carry out the

duties of the Superintendent of Pensions in his or her absence or incapacity

and to exercise the powers and perform the duties delegated by the

Superintendent of Pensions under any Act. Current legislation does not provide for the

appointment of a Deputy Superintendent ofPensions.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PENSION

BENEFITS ACT, 1997

Analysis

S.6 Amdt.

Powers and duties of super-itendent

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL1996 cP-4.01

as amended

Section 6 of the Pension Benefits Act, 1997 is amended by adding immediately after subsection

(1) the following:

(1.1) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint

a Deputy Superintendent of Pensions

(

a) to act in place of the superintendent in his

or her absence or incapacity; and

(

b) to exercise the powers and perform the duties

of the superintendent under

an Act or regulations that may be assigned by the superintendent.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer