BILL 54
An Act to Amend the
Executive Council Act
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, enacts as follows:
1 Section
5 of the Executive Council Act, chapter E-12 of the Revised Statutes,
1973, is amended
(a) in subsection (1) by
striking out “twenty thousand dollars” and substituting “$52,614”;
(b) in subsection (2) by
striking out “thirty thousand dollars” and substituting “$79,000”.
2 Section
6 of the Act is amended by striking out “fifteen thousand dollars”
and substituting “$39,500”.
3 Subsection
6.1(2) of the Act is amended in the portion preceding paragraph (a)
by striking out “January 1, 2002” and substituting “January 1, 2009”.
4 This Act shall be deemed to have come into
force on April 1, 2008.
EXPLANATORY NOTES
Section 1
(a) The existing provision is
as follows:
5(1) The Minister of Finance shall pay an annual salary of twenty
thousand dollars in monthly instalments to each Minister appointed
under section 2, each member of the Executive Council prescribed duties
under subsection 3(1) and each member of the Executive Council to,
in or on whom a right, power, duty, function, responsibility or authority
is transferred, vested or imposed under subsection 3(2).
(b) The existing provision is
as follows:
5(2) The Minister of Finance shall pay to the Premier an annual salary
of thirty thousand dollars in monthly instalments and an allowance
of twenty-five hundred dollars annually for expenses incidental to
the discharge of his duties as Premier.
Section 2
The existing provision is as follows:
6 Each member of the Executive Council not in receipt of a salary under
section 5 shall be paid by the Minister of Finance an annual salary
of fifteen thousand dollars in monthly instalments.
Section 3
Consequential amendment.
Section 4
Commencement provision.