BILL NO. 260
(as introduced)
1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
54 Elizabeth II, 2005
An Act to Protect Public Safety
The Honourable Michael G. Baker, Q.C.
Minister of Justice
First Reading: October 21, 2005
Second Reading: October 24, 2005
Third Reading: November 1, 2005 (LINK TO BILL AS PASSED)
Explanatory Note
This Act amends the Interpretation Act to make it clear that certain provisions for interest arbitration apply to all police bargaining unit negotiations that occur after the coming into force of those provisions, regardless of when the negotiations commenced.
An Act to Protect Public Safety
32A Sections 52A to 52G of the Trade Union Act apply to collective bargaining between a police bargaining unit as defined by Section 52A of that Act and an employer on and after the seventeenth day of March, 2005, whether the collective bargaining commenced before, on or after that day.
2 This Act comes into force on such day as the Governor in Council orders and declares by proclamation.
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