Third

Session, 48th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2018

BILL 4

AN ACT TO amend the Status

of Women Advisory Council Act

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE SIOBHAN COADY

Minister Responsible for the Status of Women

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Status of Women Advisory Council Act to

remove the requirement that the president of the advisory council be appointed

from the persons appointed as members of the council.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE STATUS OF WOMEN

ADVISORY COUNCIL ACT

Analysis

S.1.1 R&S

Definitions

S.4 Amdt.

Members

S.8 Amdt.

President

S.9 R&S

Vice-president

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cS-25

as amended

Section 1.1 of the Status of Women Advisory Council Act is repealed and the following

substituted:

Definitions

1.1 In

this Act

(a) "advisory council" means the

Provincial Advisory Council on the Status of Women - Newfoundland

and Labrador continued under

section 2;

(b) "member" means a person appointed

under subsection 4(1) and the president;

(c) "minister" means the minister

designated by order of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to be the minister

responsible for the status of women; and

(d) "president" means the person

appointed under

section 8.

2. (1) Subsection 4(1) of the Act is repealed and

the following substituted:

Members

(1) The

advisory council shall consist of the president and 10 persons appointed by the

Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

(2) Subsection 4(4) of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

(4) A member whose term of office has expired

shall continue to be a member until a successor is appointed.

3. Subsection 8(1) of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

President

(1) The

Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall appoint a person to be the president of

the advisory council.

Section 9 of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

Vice-president

(1) The

Lieutenant-Governor in Council shall appoint a vice-president from the persons appointed

under subsection 4(1).

(2) Where the president is unable to exercise the

powers and duties of president, the vice-president shall act in place of the

president and subsection 8(3) applies to the vice-president as may be

appropriate in the circumstances.

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