Second

Session, 48th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2017

BILL 4

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

INTERGOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

ANDREW PARSONS, Q.C.

Government House Leader

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Intergovernmental Affairs Act to ensure

consistency with the structure of government departments, branches, offices and

secretariats.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL

AFFAIRS ACT

Analysis

S.3 R&S

Secretariat

S.4 R&S

Administration

S.5 Amdt.

Secretariat staff

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cI-13

as amended

Section 3 of the Intergovernmental Affairs Act is repealed and the following

substituted:

Secretariat

3. There

shall be a secretariat within Executive Council responsible for intergovernmental

affairs.

Section 4 of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

Administration

(1) The

minister shall direct the administration of the secretariat.

(2) In exercising the powers and discharging the

duties conferred or imposed on him or her by this Act, the minister shall act

under a style of cause that includes reference to intergovernmental affairs.

3. Subsections 5(1) and (2) of the Act are

repealed and the following substituted:

Secretariat staff

(1) The

Lieutenant-Governor in Council may appoint, to hold office during pleasure, those

deputy ministers and assistant deputy ministers that the Lieutenant-Governor in

Council considers necessary for the proper conduct of the business of the

secretariat.

(2) The deputy minister shall be the deputy head

of the secretariat.

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