BILL NO. 106

(as introduced)

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

Private Member's Bill

Health Services and Insurance Act
(amended)

Maureen MacDonald
Halifax Needham

First Reading: September 28, 2004

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

This Bill requires audited financial statements of the M.S.I. Plan to disclose, or the disclosure as authorized by regulations of, the name of every person who receives $50,000 or more in a fiscal year for providing services to insured persons under the Plan and the amount paid to each.

1 Chapter 197 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Health Services and Insurance Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 16 the following Section:

16A For each fiscal year of the Government ending on or after March 31, 2004, the Minister shall cause to be disclosed in audited financial statements of the M.S.I. Plan, or in any other manner authorized in the regulations, the name of every person who receives fifty thousand dollars or more in the fiscal year for providing services to insured persons under the Plan and the amount paid to each.

2 Subsection 17(2) of Chapter 197 is amended by adding immediately after clause (f) the following clause:

(g) respecting disclosure pursuant to Section 16A;