BILL NO. 81
1st Session, 58th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
49 Elizabeth II, 2000
Private Member's Bill
Occupational Health and Safety Act
(amended)
Russell MacKinnon
Cape Breton West
First Reading: November 20, 2000
(Explanatory Note)
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
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Explanatory Note
This Bill adds to the Act a requirement that a joint occupational health and safety committee at a
public school include at least one parent of a child attending the school, elected by the parents and
that, where the school is a school with students in grade ten or a higher grade, the committee also
include at least one student elected by the students.
An Act to Amend Chapter 7
of the Acts of 1996,
the Occupational Health and Safety Act
1 Section 30 of Chapter 7 of the Acts of 1996, the Occupational Heath and Safety Act, is
amended by adding immediately after subsection (2) the following subsection:
(2A) Where the workplace is a public school within the meaning of the Education Act, the
committee shall include at least one parent of a child attending the school, elected by the
parents of the children attending the school, and, where the school is a school with students
in grade ten or a higher grade, the committee shall also include at least one student attending
the school who is in grade ten or a higher grade, elected by the students attending the
school.
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