Fourth

Session, 46th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2011

BILL 16

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

SUPPORT ORDERS

ENFORCEMENT ACT, 2006

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 Support Orders Enforcement Act, 2006 to

expand the director's ability to

withdraw a support order if the creditor wilfully fails or refuses to provide to

the Director of Support Enforcement any information necessary to enforce a

support order;

permit the director to withdraw

a support order if both the debtor and creditor no longer reside in the

Province; and

require the debtor to serve

notice to the director if the debtor applies to court for an order suspending

proceeding taken by the director.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE SUPPORT ORDERS

ENFORCEMENT ACT, 2006

Analysis

S.8 Amdt.

Withdrawal of support order

S.14 Amdt.

Stay of enforcement

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2006 cS-31.1

as amended

(1) Paragraph 8(

e) of the Support Orders Enforcement Act, 2006 is repealed

and the following substituted:

(

e) where the creditor wilfully fails to or

refuses to provide information to the director that the director requires to

enforce the support order;

(2) Section 8 of the Act is amended by deleting

the word "or" at the end of paragraph (k), by deleting the period at

the end of paragraph (

l) and substituting a semi-colon and the word

"or", and by adding immediately after that paragraph the following:

(

m) where the director is satisfied that the

creditor and the debtor no longer reside in the jurisdiction.

Section 14 of the Act is amended by adding

immediately after subsection (1) the following:

(1.1) The debtor shall serve a notice of an

application under subsection (1) on the director.

William E. Parsons, Queen's Printer