BILL NO. 66
(as introduced)
5th Session, 61st General Assembly
Nova Scotia
62 Elizabeth II, 2013
Mariners' Day Act
The Honourable Sterling Belliveau
Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture
First Reading: April 29, 2013
Second Reading: April 30, 2013
Third Reading: May 6, 2013 (LINK TO BILL AS PASSED)
An Act Respecting
a Memorial Day for Mariners
WHEREAS Nova Scotia is a province with strong and long-standing connections to the sea;
AND WHEREAS the House of Assembly believes that there should be a day set aside on which to commemorate, each and every year, the many Nova Scotian mariners, men and women, who have lost their lives at sea;
THEREFORE be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 This Act may be cited as the Mariners' Day Act.
2 Throughout the Province, in each and every year, the second Sunday in August shall be kept and observed under the name of Mariners' Day.
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