BILL NO. 33
1st Session, 58th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
49 Elizabeth II, 2000
Family Maintenance Act
(amended)
The Honourable Michael G. Baker, Q.C.
Minister of Justice
First Reading: March 29, 2000
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Explanatory Note
This Bill enables a court to order, pursuant to the Family Maintenance Act, one person to provide spousal support to another person not only in cases where the persons are of different sexes, which is now the case, but also in cases where the persons are of the same sex.
An Act to Amend Chapter 160
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Family Maintenance Act
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 Clause 2(m) of Chapter 160 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Family Maintenance Act, is repealed and the following clause substituted:
(m) "spouse" means a person married to another person and, for the purpose of this Act, includes two persons who are either of different sexes or of the same sex who, not being married to one another, have lived together in a conjugal relationship continuously for one year.
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