BILL NO. 46

(as introduced)

1st Session, 60th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
55 Elizabeth II, 2006

Private Member's Bill

Energy Resources Conservation Act
(amended)

Darrell Dexter
Cole Harbour

First Reading: July 10, 2006

(Explanatory Notes)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Clause 1 amends the Energy Resources Conservation Act to require the Government to make available interest-free loans for energy-efficiency retrofitting of private homes and eligible small businesses.

Clause 2 adds regulation-making authority respecting the eligibility of small businesses for loans and prescribing loan re-payment terms.

13 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Government of the Province shall, on or before July 1, 2006, make available interest-free loans

(a) to a maximum of ten thousand dollars per recipient for the purpose of facilitating energy-efficiency retrofitting of private homes; and

(b) to a maximum of twenty-five thousand dollars per recipient for the purpose of facilitating energy-efficiency retrofitting of eligible small businesses,

upon such re-payment terms as the Governor in Council prescribes.

(2) The moneys required for the purpose of subsection (1) shall be paid out of moneys appropriated by the Legislature for that purpose.

2 Subsection 29(1) of Chapter 147, as amended by Chapter 15 of the Acts of 2001, is further amended by adding immediately before clause (g) the following clauses:

(e) respecting eligibility of small businesses for loans pursuant to clause 13(1)(b);

(f) prescribing loan re-payment terms for the purpose of subsection 13(1);