BILL NO. 16
(as introduced)
1st Session, 61st General Assembly
Nova Scotia
58 Elizabeth II, 2009
Motor Vehicle Act
(amended)
The Honourable Ramona Jennex
Service Nova Scotia and Municipal Relations
First Reading: September 23, 2009
Second Reading: October 23, 2009
Third Reading: October 30, 2009 (LINK TO BILL AS PASSED)
Explanatory Note
This Bill amends the Motor Vehicle Act to authorize regulations to broaden the classes of people licensed outside of Nova Scotia who are allowed to drive a motor vehicle upon a highway in Nova Scotia without having to obtain a Nova Scotia driver's licence.
An Act to Amend Chapter 293
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Motor Vehicle Act
1 Section 65 of Chapter 293 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Motor Vehicle Act, as amended by Chapter 61 of the Acts of 2008, is further amended by adding immediately after subsection (5) the following subsections:
(a) allowing classes of persons
(b) prescribing terms and conditions that apply to any such classes.
(7) The regulations made pursuant to subsection (6) may prescribe different terms and conditions for different classes of persons.
(8) The exercise by the Minister of the authority contained in subsection (6) is regulations within the meaning of the Regulations Act.
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