BILL NO. 27

(as introduced)

1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
52 Elizabeth II, 2003

Private Member's Bill

Municipal Government Act
(amended)

Darrell Dexter
Cole Harbour

First Reading: October 23, 2003

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

This Bill requires the Province to compensate municipalities for increases in required expenditures or decreases in revenue where the Minister of Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations has not given the required one year notice of legislation, regulations or administrative action by the Province that results in the increases or decreases. Compensation is subject to there being an appropriation by the Legislature for the compensation.

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows: 1 Section 519 of Chapter 18 of the Acts of 1998, the Municipal Government Act, is amended by adding immediately after subsection (2) the following subsections:

(3) Subject to subsection (5), the amount of any increase in required expenditures of any municipality or decrease in the revenue received by any municipality as a result of legislation, regulations or administrative action for which notice has not been given in accordance with this Section is a sum payable to that municipality by Her Majesty in right of the Province.

(4) For greater certainty, the revenue and expenditures referred to in subsection (3) include sums paid for public education.

(5) The moneys required for the purpose of this Section shall be paid out of moneys appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.