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Occupational Health and Safety Act (amended)

BILL NO. 64

(as introduced)

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



Private Member's Bill



Occupational Health and Safety Act
(amended)



Manning MacDonald
Cape Breton South



First Reading: May 10, 2006

(Explanatory Notes)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Notes

Clause 1 requires every employer to establish and implement a policy to prevent bullying in the workplace.

Clause 2 authorizes the Governor in Council to make a regulation respecting criteria for a bullying-prevention policy.

An Act to Amend Chapter 7
of the Acts of 1996,
the Occupational Health and Safety Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Subsection 13(2) of Chapter 7 of the Acts of 1996, the Occupational Health and Safety Act, is amended by adding immediately after clause (c) the following clause:

(ca) in accordance with the regulations, if any, establish and implement a policy to prevent bullying in the workplace;

2 Subsection 82(1) of Chapter 7 is amended by adding immediately after clause (h) the following clause:

(ha) respecting the criteria for a policy to prevent bullying in the workplace;


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