Third

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2006

BILL 17

AN ACT TO REPEAL

OBSOLETE ACTS AND TO AMEND THE HIGHWAY TRAFFIC ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

DIANNE WHALEN

Minister

of Government Services

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would repeal a number of

obsolete Acts.

The Bill would also make an amendment

to the Highway Traffic Act to

continue to require an automobile dealer to be registered in order to carry on

business notwithstanding the repeal of the Automobile

Dealers Act .

A BILL

AN ACT TO REPEAL OBSOLETE ACTS AND TO AMEND THE HIGHWAY

TRAFFIC ACT

Analysis

Short title

Acts are repealed

RSNL1990 cH-3 Amdt.

Schedule

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

Short title

1. This

Act may be cited as the Obsolete Acts

Repeal Act .

Acts are repealed

2. The Acts set out in the

Schedule are repealed.

RSNL1990 cH-3

as amended

3. The Highway

Traffic Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 16.1 the

following:

Dealer must

register

16.2

(1) A

person shall not carry on business as a dealer unless he or she is registered

under this Act.

(2) A person shall apply to be registered as a

dealer in the manner and shall provide the information required by the

registrar.

(3) The registrar shall register a person who

applies under this

section and in compliance with subsection (2).

(4) A registration as a dealer is not

transferable.

(5) A dealer shall not carry on business in a name

other than the name in which the dealer is registered.

(6) A dealer's registration remains in effect

until cancelled or revoked by the registrar.

Conditions of

registration

16.3 A

registration is subject to the terms, conditions and restrictions that the

registrar may impose or that the minister may, by regulation, impose.

Suspension or

cancellation of registration

16.4 The

registrar may suspend or cancel a registration where he or she is satisfied

that the person to whom the registration was given

(

a) has violated a term or condition of the

registration;

(

b) has made a material misrepresentation in the

application for registration or in the information submitted to the registrar

under

section 16.2; or

(

c) has contravened a provision of sections 17 to

Schedule

1. Automobile

Dealers Act

2. Lodgers'

Goods Protection Act

3. Salvage

Dealers Licensing Act

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer