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Costs and Fees Act (amended)

BILL NO. 74

(as passed, with amendments)

2nd Session, 58th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
50 Elizabeth II, 2001



Government Bill



Costs and Fees Act
(amended)

CHAPTER 42 OF THE ACTS OF 2001



The Honourable Michael G. Baker, Q.C.
Minister of Justice



First Reading: November 1, 2001 (LINK TO BILL AS INTRODUCED)

Second Reading: November 6, 2001

Third Reading: November 15, 2001 (WITH COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS)

Royal Assent: November 22, 2001

An Act Amend Chapter 104
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Costs and Fees Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 (1) Section 2 of Chapter 104 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Costs and Fees Act, is amended by adding immediately after subsection (1) the following subsection:

(1A) The Governor in Council may make regulations respecting the waiver or reduction of any fee or allowance otherwise payable pursuant to subsection (1) or the regulations, including, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, regulations prescribing the circumstances under which the fee or allowance may be waived and designating a person or a class of persons who may waive or reduce the fee or allowance.

(2) Subsection 2(2) of Chapter 104 is amended by adding "or (1A)" immediately after "(1)" in the second line.


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