BILL NO. 76

(as introduced)

1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
53 Elizabeth II, 2004

Private Member's Bill

Health Services and Insurance Act
(amended)

Diana Whalen
Halifax Clayton Park

First Reading: May 11, 2004

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

This Bill adds regulation-making authority to make a regulation respecting the delivery of Applied Behavioural Analysis Therapy to children with autism as an insured professional service.

1 Subsection 17(2) of Chapter 197 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Health Services and Insurance Act, as amended by Chapter 20 of the Acts of 1992, is further amended by adding immediately after clause (mb) the following clause:

(mc) respecting the delivery of Applied Behavioural Analysis Therapy through a plan approved by the Department to children aged six and under with autism as an insured professional service;