1st Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
54 Elizabeth II, 2005
The Honourable Ronald S. Russell, C.D.
Government House Leader
First Reading: October 19, 2005
Second Reading: October 21, 2005
Third Reading: November 3, 2005 (WITH COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS) (LINK TO BILL AS PASSED)
This Bill provides that no commission of inquiry on the remuneration of elected provincial officials shall be appointed to determine indemnities, allowances and salaries for the year 2006 and, for that year, provides that the percentage increase in the indemnities, allowances and salaries is to be 2.9% or, if greater, the percentage increase in salary provided to civil servants for the 2004-05 fiscal year.
(a) the Speaker shall not, in the year 2005, appoint persons pursuant to subsection (1); and
(b) for the year 2006, the annual indemnity and allowance for expenses to be paid pursuant to this Act and the salaries to be paid pursuant to this Act and the Executive Council Act shall be 102.9% of those amounts paid pursuant to this Act and the Executive Council Act for the year 2005 plus the percentage of those amounts for 2005 that the percentage increase in salary provided to civil servants for the fiscal year 2004-05 exceeds 2.9%.