BILL NO. 52
(as passed, with corrections)
2nd Session, 62nd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
63 Elizabeth II, 2014
Consumer Protection Act (amended)
and
Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act (amended)
CHAPTER 45 OF THE ACTS OF 2014
The Honourable Mark Furey
Minister of Service Nova Scotia
First Reading: October 23, 2014 (LINK TO BILL AS INTRODUCED)
Second Reading: October 24, 2014
Third Reading: November 6, 2014
Royal Assent: November 20, 2014
An Act to Amend Chapter 92
of the Revised Statutes, 1989,
the Consumer Protection Act,
and Chapter 6 of the Acts of 2006,
the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 Sections 25K to 25AO of Chapter 92 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Consumer Protection Act, are repealed.
2 Chapter 6 of the Acts of 2006, the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods Act, is amended by adding immediately before Section 63 the following Section:
(a) "cellular telephone services" means, subject to the regulations, wireless communication services or functions that are accessed from a cellular telephone, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, receiving or transmitting telephone calls, electronic data, electronic mail or text messages;
(b) "educational materials" means the materials about responsible cellular telephone use and cyberbullying prepared by the Minister of Justice.
(2) A supplier of cellular telephone services shall obtain copies of the educational materials from the Director.
(3) A supplier shall give a copy of the educational materials to each customer who enters into a contract with the supplier for cellular telephone services, at no additional cost to the customer, immediately after the contract is made.
(4) For greater certainty, the educational materials given to a customer under subsection (3) must be those prepared by the Minister of Justice.
(ib) respecting the requirement under Section 62A for suppliers to provide educational materials about responsible cellular telephone use, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
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