Third

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2010

BILL 7

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

COMMISSIONERS FOR OATHS ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

FELIX COLLINS

Minister of Justice and Attorney General

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Commissioner for Oaths Act to address a

number of deficiencies found in it.

It would broaden the category of

persons who may be appointed commissioners for oaths to persons who have the

status of permanent residents of Canada .

It would permit the minister to set

the fees that a commissioner may charge for his or her services.

Lastly it would make it an offence to

purport to be a commissioner when one is not.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE COMMISSIONERS FOR OATHS

ACT

Analysis

S.2 Amdt.

Appointments in province

Ss.14 & 15 Added

14. Minister may set fees

15. Offence

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cC-25

as amended

1. Subsection 2(1) of the Commissioners for Oaths Act is repealed and the following

substituted:

Appointments in

province

(1) The

Minister of Justice may appoint a person who is a Canadian citizen or who has

the status of a permanent resident of Canada to administer oaths and take and

receive affidavits, declarations and affirmations within the province.

2. The Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 13 the following:

Minister may set

fees

14. The

minister may set fees that a commissioner for oaths may charge for exercising a

power given to him or her by this Act.

Offence

(1) A

person whose appointment as a commissioner for oaths has expired or whose

appointment has been revoked who after the expiry or revocation uses or

exercises a power conferred on a commissioner by this Act is guilty of an

offence and liable on

summary conviction to a fine of not more than $500.

(2) A person who holds himself or herself out as a

commissioner for oaths without having been appointed as one is guilty of an

offence and liable on

summary conviction to a fine of not more than $500.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer