Second

Session, 50th General Assembly

Charles III, 2024

BILL 67

AN ACT RESPECTING

RECOGNITION OF THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF CONFEDERATION

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

Second

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

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

Third

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Royal

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

HONOURABLE JOHN

HOGAN, KC

Government House

Leader

Ordered to be printed by

the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would enact the Confederation 75 th Anniversary

Recognition Act.

The Bill would

authorize Confederation 75 th

Anniversary Medals to be awarded to individuals who have made a significant

contribution to society and have satisfied other prescribed requirements;

establish the Confederation 75 th

Anniversary Scholarship to be awarded to 75 secondary school students in 2024 on

the basis of academic achievement determined by the students scholarship score

as calculated by the Department of Education;

provide for honorary members of

the Executive Council; and

authorize members of the

Executive Council, including honorary members, to use the honorific "The

Honourable" and the initials "E.C.N.L".

A BILL

AN ACT RESPECTING RECOGNITION OF THE 75 TH

ANNIVERSARY OF CONFEDERATION

Analysis

Short title

Definitions

Confederation 75th Anniversary Medals

Confederation 75th Anniversary

Scholarships

Honorary members of executive council

Honorific and title

Regulations

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 Confederation 75 th

Anniversary Recognition Act .

Definitions

2. In

this Act

(a) "executive council" means t he executive council of the province; and

(b) "provincial scholarship program"

means a program administered by the

Department of Education to award scholarships to secondary school students on

the basis of academic achievement determined by the students scholarship score

as calculated by the Department of Education.

Confederation 75 th

Anniversary Medals

(1) The

Confederation 75 th Anniversary Medal may be awarded to individuals

who

(

a) have made a significant contribution to

society;

(

b) are living at the time this Act comes into

force; and

(

c) satisfy the other requirements that may be

prescribed in the regulations.

(2) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may

establish a committee to select individuals who may be awarded the

Confederation 75 th Anniversary Medal.

Confederation 75 th

Anniversary Scholarships

(1) The

Confederation 75 th Anniversary Scholarship is established.

(2) The Minister of the Department of Education may

grant 75 Confederation 75 th Anniversary Scholarships to secondary school

students in the province who

(

a) have achieved the highest scholarship scores

in 2024; and

(

b) have not received another scholarship from the

provincial scholarship program.

(3) The value of each Confederation 75 th

Anniversary Scholarship shall be $1,000.

(4) Notwithstanding subsection (2), no more than 3

Confederation 75 th Anniversary Scholarships may be awarded in an

electoral district.

Honorary members

of executive council

(1) Every former member of the executive council who is

living on the date this Act comes into force and every individual who becomes a

former member of the executive council on or after the coming into force of

this Act, is designated as an honorary member of the executive council.

(2) An individual who is an honorary member of the executive

council is not a member of the executive council for the purposes of the Executive Council Act or any other

enactment that confers rights, obligations or privileges on members of the

executive council.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), an honorary member

of the executive council may use the honorific and title set out in

section 6.

(4) Where a person who is designated as an honorary

member of the executive council under this

section is convicted of an offence

that could have been prosecuted by way of indictment, the person immediately ceases

to be an honorary member of the executive council and is disqualified from

being designated as an honorary member again in the future.

Honorific and

title

6. A

member of the executive council, including an honorary member, may use

(

a) the honorific "The Honourable"

before the member's name; and

(

b) the initials "E.C.N.L" after the

member's name to indicate membership in the executive council.

Regulations

7. The

Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations

(

a) prescribing additional requirements for the purposes

of paragraph 3(1)(c);

(

b) defining a word or

phrase used but not defined in this Act; and

(

c) generally, to give

effect to the purpose of this Act.

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