First

Session, 47th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2012

BILL 45

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ANIMAL HEALTH AND PROTECTION ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE JEROME P. KENNEDY, Q.C.

Minister of Natural Resources

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Animal Health and Protection Act to

provide for the disposition of fines to a municipal authority whose enforcement

officers enforce the Act and the regulations by means of a ticket.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ANIMAL HEALTH AND

PROTECTION ACT

Analysis

S.77.1 Added

Enforcement by municipal officers

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2010 cA-9.1

1. The Animal

Health and Protection Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 77

the following:

Enforcement by

municipal officers

77.1

(1) Where

an employee of a municipal authority is designated as an inspector and

commences proceedings under this Act or the regulations by means of a ticket, a

fine that is recovered in those proceedings shall be forwarded by the court

imposing the fine to the municipal authority.

(2) The municipal authority shall pay to the

province an amount that the Minister of Justice may establish for every ticket

processed by the province.

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