BILL NO. 418

(as introduced)

1st Session, 64th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
2 Charles III, 2024

 

Private Member's Bill

 

Finance Act
(amended)

 

Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin
Cumberland North

First Reading: March 1, 2024

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

Explanatory Note

This Bill

(a) the Minister of Finance and Treasury Board to table a report on supplementary warrants and appropriations made in a fiscal year; and

(b) the report to be referred to the Committee of the Whole on Supply in the House of Assembly.

An Act to Amend Chapter 2
of the Acts of 2010,
the Finance Act

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Chapter 2 of the Acts of 2010, the Finance Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 29 the following Section:

29A (1) Beginning in the fiscal year that begins on the first day of April in the year 2024, where any warrants are issued or any appropriations are made under Section 26, 27, 28 or 29 during a fiscal year, the Minister shall table a report on those warrants or appropriations in the House of Assembly forthwith or, where the House is not then sitting, when the House first sits after the warrants are issued or the appropriations are made.

(2) Where a report is tabled under subsection (1), the Speaker of the House of Assembly shall refer the report to the Committee of the Whole on Supply and, subject to this Section and with necessary changes, the rules respecting the consideration of the Estimates apply to the consideration of the report.

(3) The Committee of the Whole on Supply shall consider a report referred under subsection (2) for a maximum of fifteen hours.

 

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