BILL NO. 32
(as introduced)
1st Session, 65th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
3 Charles III, 2025
Private Member's Public Bill
Emergency Management Act
(amended)
Elizabeth Smith-McCrossin
Cumberland North
First Reading: February 21, 2025
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Explanatory Note
This Bill provides
(a) that the Department of Emergency Management is responsible for ensuring that emergency alerts are issued in appropriate cases by the appropriate authorities; and
(b) for the issuance of emergency alerts to Nova Scotians for emergencies in another province near the Nova Scotia border.
An Act to Amend Chapter 8
of the Acts of 1990,
the Emergency Management Act,
Respecting Emergency Alerts
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 Chapter 8 of the Acts of 1990, the Emergency Management Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 12 the following Section:
- 12A (1) When there is an emergency, the Department shall ensure that an emergency alert is issued in appropriate cases by the appropriate authorities.
(2) Where an emergency alert is issued in another province of Canada within two hundred and fifty kilometres, or such greater distance as may be prescribed in the regulations, of the Province, the Department shall ensure that an emergency alert is issued by appropriate authorities to persons in the Province affected by the emergency.
2 Subsection 25(1) of Chapter 8, as amended by Chapter 48 of the Acts of 2005, Chapter 12 of the Acts of 2009, Chapter 9 of the Acts of 2011, Chapter 45 of the Acts of 2022 and Chapter 6 of the Acts of 2024, is further amended by adding immediately after clause (g) the following clause:
- (ga) respecting emergency alerts;
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