BILL 53

An Act to Amend the Support Enforcement Act

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, enacts as follows:

1 Subsection 8(1) of the Support Enforcement Act, chapter S-15.5 of the Acts of New Brunswick, 2005, is repealed and the following is substituted :

8( 1) Subject to subsection (1.1), a payer shall provide the Director with information about himself or herself on a form provided by the Minister and shall

(a)  arrange with an income source, in accordance with the regulations, to have the income source pay the amount payable under the support order to the Director,

(b)  request the Director to issue a payment order to an income source,

(c)  file security with the Director in the manner and amount prescribed by regulation to secure payment of the support order, or

(d)  elect a method of payment prescribed by regulation.

2 Section 53 of the Act is amended

(a)  by repealing paragraph (g);

(b)  by repealing paragraph (q) and substituting the following:

(q)  prescribing forms and authorizing the Minister to provide forms for the purposes of this Act and the regulations;

3 This Act or any provision of it comes into force on a day or days to be fixed by proclamation.