Second

Session, 50th General Assembly

Charles III, 2023

BILL 49

AN ACT RESPECTING THE

KING'S PRINTER

Received

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

Second

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

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

Third

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

Royal

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

HONOURABLE SARAH

STOODLEY

Minister of Digital

Government and Service Newfoundland and Labrador

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would enact the King's Printer Act and repeal

Part VI of

the Works, Services and Transportation

Act.

A BILL

AN ACT RESPECTING THE KING'S PRINTER

Analysis

Short title

Definitions

Appointment of King's Printer

Duties of King's Printer

Gazette

Matters to be published in the Gazette

SNL1995 cW-12 Amdt.

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 King's Printer Act.

Definitions

2. In

this Act

(a) "department" means the department

presided over by the minister;

(b) "Gazette" means the Newfoundland and

Labrador Gazette; and

(c) "minister" means the minister

appointed under the Executive Council Act

to administer this Act.

Appointment of

King's Printer

3. The minister may appoint an officer of the department to be

the King's Printer for the province.

Duties of King's

Printer

(1) The King's Printer shall, under the direction of the

minister, exercise the printing and publishing functions for the government of

the province that are assigned to the King's Printer by law or that may be

assigned to the King's Printer by the minister.

(2) The King's Printer

shall print and publish all official and departmental and other reports, forms,

documents and other papers that the King's Printer is required to print and

publish by the authority of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

(3) Anything published

under the supervision of the King's Printer by authority of this or another Act

shall be held to be printed by the King's Printer.

Gazette

(1) The King's Printer shall publish an official gazette,

which shall be known as the

Newfoundland and Labrador Gazette .

(2) The minister may

(

a) determine the form,

mode and times of publication of the Gazette;

(

b) designate the public

bodies, officers and persons to whom the

Gazette is to be sent without charge; and

(

c) establish the price

of subscriptions to the Gazette and

the charges to be paid for the publication of notices, advertisements and

documents.

Matters to be

published in the Gazette

6. All proclamations issued by the Lieutenant-Governor or

under the authority of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, and all official

notices, regulations, subordinate legislation, advertisements and documents

relating to the province, or matters under the control of the House of Assembly

and requiring publication, shall be published in the Gazette unless some other mode of publication is required

by law.

SNL1995 cW-12

Amdt.

Part VI of the Works, Services and Transportation Act is repealed.

King's Printer