Second Session, 44th General Assembly

49 Elizabeth II, 2000

BILL 40

AN ACT TO AMEND THE SERVICES CHARGES ACT

Received and Read the First Time

Second Reading

Committee

Third Reading

Royal Assent

HONOURABLE LLOYD MATTHEWS

Minister of Finance

Ordered to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Clause 1 of the Bill would repeal

section 3 of the Services Charges Act to remove registration fees charged under the Condominium Act . The method of assessing those fees has changed and those fees no longer come under the purview of the Services Charges Act . Rather, they are addressed under the Condominium Act and regulations and a directive of the minister under that legislation.

Clause 2 of the Bill is a consequential amendment to the Condominium Act to allow the minister to prescribe fees and forms for the purpose and administration of that Act. This provision was inadvertently omitted from amendments stemming from the Regulatory Reform Project.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE SERVICES

CHARGES ACT

Analysis

1. S.3 Rep.

Condominium registration charge

2. Consequential amendment

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SN1998 cS-13.2

Section 3 of the Services Charges Act is repealed.

Consequential amendment

2. (1) Subsection 15(2) of the Condominium Act is amended by adding immediately after the word "form" the phrase "prescribed by the minister".

(2) The Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 20 the following:

Fees and forms

21. The minister may prescribe fees and forms for the purpose and administration of this Act.

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