BILL NO. 106

(as introduced)

2nd Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
55 Elizabeth II, 2006

Private Member's Bill

Homes for Special Care Act
(amended)

H. David Wilson
Glace Bay

First Reading: May 11, 2006

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

This Bill adds regulation-making power respecting the admission of a resident to a nursing home, home or residential-care facility that has a spouse living in the community or a spouse already admitted in a nursing home, home for aged or disabled persons or residential-care facility.

1 Subsection 19(1) of Chapter 203 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Homes for Special Care Act, is amended by adding immediately after clause (p) the following clause:

(pa) respecting the admission of a resident in a facility, a nursing home or a home who has a spouse living in the community or a spouse already admitted in a nursing home, home for aged or disabled persons or facility;