First Session, 45th General Assembly

53 Elizabeth II, 2004

BILL 56

AN ACT TO AMEND THE INTERNAL ECONOMY COMMISSION ACT

Received and Read the First Time

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

HONOURABLE EDWARD J. BYRNE

Government House Leader

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Bill would amend the Internal Economy Commission Act to

provide for the adoption by the House of Assembly and its offices of a

transparency and accountability regime similar to that required of government

departments and public bodies by the Transparency

and Accountability Act .

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE INTERNAL ECONOMY

COMMISSION ACT

Analysis

S.9.1 Added

Application of Transparency and Accountability Act

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cI-14

as amended

1. The Internal

Economy Commission Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 9 the

following:

Application of

Transparency and Accountability Act

9.1 The

Transparency and Accountability Act

shall apply to the House of Assembly, including the offices of the House of

Assembly, with the following changes and exceptions:

(

a) an authority or responsibility given to a

minister under that Act shall be exercised by the Speaker;

(

b) an authority or responsibility given to the

Lieutenant-Governor in Council under that Act shall be exercised by the

Commission;

(

c) sections 10, 11, 12, 13, subsections 14(2), 19(1),

(2), (3) and (4), and

section 24 of that Act do not apply;

(

d) where the Transparency

and Accountability Act refers to a "governing body" it shall be

read as a reference to the Commission;

(

e) where the Transparency

and Accountability Act refers to a "government entity" it shall

be read as a reference to an office of the House of Assembly;

(

f) where the Transparency

and Accountability Act refers to a "public body" it shall be read

as a reference to an office of the House of Assembly;

(

g) where in sections 5, 6, and 7 of the Transparency and Accountability Act

reference is made to the "strategic direction of the government" it

shall be read as a reference to the strategic direction of the House of

Assembly; and

(

h) where in

section 21 of the Transparency and Accountability Act a reference

is made to a "deputy minister" it shall be read as a reference to an

officer of the House of Assembly.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer