BILL NO. 157

(as introduced)

1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
54 Elizabeth II, 2005

Private Member's Bill

Nova Scotia Power Privatization Act
(amended)

Howard Epstein
Halifax Chebucto

First Reading: April 20, 2005

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

This Bill provides that Nova Scotia Power Incorporated must reimburse residential and commercial customers for spoiled food resulting from a power outage lasting more than twenty-four hours.

1 Chapter 8 of the Acts of 1992, the Nova Scotia Power Privatization Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 23 the following Section:

23A (1) Notwithstanding Section 23 but subject to subsection (2), the Company shall reimburse residential and commercial customers of the Company for losses suffered by those customers as a result of spoiled food caused by a delay, interruption or other partial or complete failure in the supplying by the Company of electricity to those customers for a period of more than twenty-four hours.

(2) Within three months of the coming into force of this Section, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board shall determine, on a per incident basis, the amount of compensation a customer of the Company is entitled to under subsection (1).