BILL 13

An Act to Amend the Salvage Dealers Licensing Act

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

1 The Salvage Dealers Licensing Act, chapter 111 of the Revised Statutes, 2016, is amended by adding after section 11 the following:

Cash payments

11.1( 1) In this section, “cash” means bank notes and coins.

11.1( 2) A salvage dealer shall not pay cash for salvage referred to in subsection 3(5) of New Brunswick Regulation 84-107 under this Act.

2 Section 17 of the Act is amended

(a)  in subsection (3) by striking out “section 6 or 8” and substituting “section 6, 8 or 11.1”;

(b)  by adding after subsection (3) the following:

17( 4) Despite section 51 and subsections 56(2), (3) and (5) of the Provincial Offences Procedure Act, when a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1), (2) or (3), the minimum fine shall be double the minimum fine specified in that Act for that category of offence.

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