BILL NO. 55
(as introduced)
2nd Session, 62nd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
63 Elizabeth II, 2014
Helping Seniors Stay at Home Act
Tim Houston
Pictou East
First Reading: October 23, 2014
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Explanatory Notes
Clause 2 expands the definition of senior citizen in the Senior Citizens' Financial Aid Act to include persons aged 65 years and over whose annual income does not exceed $30,000 and makes them eligible to receive a property tax rebate.
Clause 3 sets the property tax rebate at fifty per cent of the actual property taxes paid in the rebate year.
An Act to Amend Chapter 419
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Senior Citizens’ Financial Aid Act
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 This Act may be cited as the Helping Seniors Stay at Home Act.
2 (1) Subsection 5(2) of Chapter 419 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Senior Citizens' Financial Aid Act, is amended by adding immediately after clause (a) the following clause:
(2) Subsection 5(3) of Chapter 419 is amended by adding ", (aa)" immediately after "(a)" in the last line of clause (b).
(3) Section 5 of Chapter 419 is further amended by adding immediately after subsection (3) the following subsection:
3 Chapter 419 is further amended by adding immediately after Section 5 the following Section:
(2) The money required for the purpose of subsection (1) must be paid out of the money appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.
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