BILL NO. 49
(as introduced)
3rd Session, 62nd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
65 Elizabeth II, 2016
Employment Support and Income Assistance Act (amended)
Marian Mancini
Dartmouth South
First Reading: October 26, 2016
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Explanatory Notes
Section 1 prohibits the reduction of assistance on the basis of an applicant being enrolled in a prescribed post-secondary education program.
Section 2 allows the Governor in Council to make regulations prescribing post-secondary education programs and classes of post-secondary education programs.
An Act to Amend Chapter 27
of the Acts of 2000,
the Employment Support and Income Assistance Act
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 Section 7 of Chapter 27 of the Acts of 2000, the Employment Support and Income Assistance Act, is amended by adding immediately after subsection (2) the following subsection:(3) A determination under subclause 7(2)(b)(i) or (ii) and a review under clause 7(2)(vi) must not reduce the assistance to which an applicant would otherwise be eligible on the basis that the applicant is enrolled in a prescribed post-secondary education program.
2 Subsection 21(1) of Chapter 27 is amended by adding immediately after clause (l) the following clause:
(la) prescribing post-secondary education programs or classes of post-secondary education programs for the purpose of subsection 7(3);
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