BILL NO. 44

(as introduced)

2nd Session, 59th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
55 Elizabeth II, 2006

Private Member's Bill

Consumer Reporting Act
(amended)

Bill Estabrooks
Timberlea-Prospect

First Reading: May 8, 2006

(Explanatory Note)

Second Reading:

Third Reading:

This Bill provides that nothing in the Consumer Reporting Act prohibits consumers from obtaining access to the reports relating to them by use of the internet.

1 Chapter 93 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Consumer Reporting Act, is amended by adding immediately after Section 12 the following Section:

12A Nothing in this Act prohibits the authorized access by a consumer to the consumer's own consumer reports held by a consumer reporting agency through the use of the internet, as that term is defined in the Consumer Protection Act.