Pension Benefits Act (amended)

BILL NO. 63

(as introduced)

2nd Session, 62nd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
63 Elizabeth II, 2014

Private Member's Bill

Pension Benefits Act
(amended)

Tim Houston
Pictou East

First Reading: October 28, 2014

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Note

This Bill amends the Pension Benefits Regulations made pursuant to the Pension Benefits Act, to relieve financial hardship by

(a) adding definitions of "home maintenance expenses", "home maintenance expense circumstance", "home renovation expenses" and "home renovation expense circumstance";

(b) adding home maintenance, and home renovations due to medical disability, to the prescribed circumstances of financial hardship;

An Act to Amend
the Pension Benefits Regulations
with Respect to Necessary Home Repairs
and Renovations Due to Medical Disability

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Section 84 of the Pension Benefits Regulations, Nova Scotia Regulations 164/2002, made pursuant to the Pension Benefits Act, is amended by adding immediately after clause (d) the following clauses:

(da) "home maintenance expenses" means expenses that are for repairs to the roofing, the windows, plumbing or electrical systems certified by a building code specialist as necessary to enable the owner to continue living in his or her principal residence;

(db) "home maintenance expense circumstance" means a circumstance of financial hardship as prescribed in clause 86(1)(aa);

(dc) "home renovation expenses" means expenses that are for renovations to a principal residence that are necessary to accommodate and provide accessibility due to a medical disability of the owner, the owner's spouse or common-law partner or a dependent;

(dd) "home renovation expense circumstance" means a circumstance of financial hardship as prescribed in clause 86(1)(ab);

2 (1) Subsection 86(1) of the Regulations is amended by adding immediately after clause (a) the following clauses:

(aa) the owner or the owner's spouse or common-law partner has incurred or will incur home maintenance expenses;

(ab) the owner or the owner's spouse or common-law partner has incurred or will incur home renovation expenses;

(2) Subsection 86(4) of the Regulations is amended by adding "and the home renovation expense circumstance" immediately after "circumstance" in the first line.

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