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Occupational Health and Safety Act (amended)

BILL NO. 98

(as introduced)

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



Private Member's Bill



Occupational Health and Safety Act
(amended)



Frank Corbett
Cape Breton Centre



First Reading: May 11, 2006

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Note

This Bill requires the Governor in Council to, on or before January 1, 2007, make regulations respecting violence in the workplace.

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 Chapter 7 of the Acts of 1996, the Occupational Health and Safety Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 82 the following Section:

82A The Governor in Council shall, on or before January 1, 2007, make Violence in the Workplace Regulations based on the draft regulations prepared on January 15, 2003, by the occupational health and safety advisory committee.


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