1st Session, 58th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
49 Elizabeth II, 2000
The Honourable Angus MacIsaac
Acting Minister of Environment and Labour
First Reading: October 30, 2000
Second Reading: November 10, 2000
Third Reading: November 30, 2000 (WITH COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS)
Royal Assent: November 30, 2000
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 Section 82 of Chapter 7 of the Acts of 1996, the Occupational Health and Safety Act, is amended by adding immediately after subsection (1) the following subsections:
(1A) The Governor in Council shall amend, re-enact or repeal every regulation made pursuant to subsection (1) no later than five years after the regulation was made or re-enacted or last amended, as the case may be.
(1B) The Governor in Council shall amend, re-enact or repeal the Temporary Workplace Traffic Control Regulations, the First Aid Regulations, the Disclosure of Information Regulations and the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System Regulations, made pursuant to subsection (1), no later than four years after the coming into force of this subsection.
(1C) The Governor in Council shall amend, re-enact or repeal the General Blasting Regulations, the Fall Protection and Scaffolding Regulations, the Occupational Health Regulations, the Occupational Safety General Regulations and the Appeal Panel Regulations, made pursuant to subsection (1), or any other regulations made pursuant to subsection (1) before the coming into force of this subsection, no later than five years after the coming into force of this subsection.
(1D) For greater certainty, where a regulation referred to in subsection (1B) or (1C) is amended or re-enacted after the coming into force of those subsections, subsection (1A) applies thereafter to that regulation.
(1E) Notwithstanding that a regulation referred to in subsection (1A), (1B) or (1C) has not been amended, re-enacted or repealed as required by one of those subsections, the regulation continues in effect until twelve months after the Minister has tabled a notice in the House of Assembly stating that it has not been so amended, re-enacted or repealed, as the case may be, and thereafter is of no force or effect unless amended or re-enacted before the expiry of the twelve months.
2 This Act comes into force on such day as the Governor in Council orders and declares by proclamation.