BILL NO. 55

1st Session, 57th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
47 Elizabeth II, 1998

Private Member's Bill

Wildlife Act
(amended)

Murray Scott
Cumberland South

First Reading: October 30, 1998

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

This Bill prohibits fees for fishing licences for residents of Nova Scotia who are 65 years or more of age.

Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:

1 Section 53 of Chapter 504 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Wildlife Act, is amended by adding immediately after subsection (2) the following subsection:

(2A) Notwithstanding clause (l) of subsection (1) of Section 113, no fee shall be charged for a licence, to fish in Provincial waters, issued to a resident aged sixty-five years or more.