BILL NO. 157
(as introduced)
1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
54 Elizabeth II, 2005
Nova Scotia Power Privatization Act
(amended)
Howard Epstein
Halifax Chebucto
First Reading: April 20, 2005
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Explanatory Note
This Bill provides that Nova Scotia Power Incorporated must reimburse residential and commercial customers for spoiled food resulting from a power outage lasting more than twenty-four hours.
An Act to Amend Chapter 8
of the Acts of 1992,
the Nova Scotia Power Privatization Act
1 Chapter 8 of the Acts of 1992, the Nova Scotia Power Privatization Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 23 the following Section:
23A (1) Notwithstanding Section 23 but subject to subsection (2), the Company shall reimburse residential and commercial customers of the Company for losses suffered by those customers as a result of spoiled food caused by a delay, interruption or other partial or complete failure in the supplying by the Company of electricity to those customers for a period of more than twenty-four hours.
(2) Within three months of the coming into force of this Section, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board shall determine, on a per incident basis, the amount of compensation a customer of the Company is entitled to under subsection (1).
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