3rd Session, 62nd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
65 Elizabeth II, 2016
Tim Houston
Pictou East
First Reading: October 18, 2016
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
Clause 1 provides a short title to the Act.
Clause 2 expands the definition of senior citizen in the Senior Citizens' Financial Aid Act to include persons aged 65 years and over whose annual income does not exceed $30,000 and makes them eligible to receive a property tax rebate.
Clause 3 sets the property tax rebate at fifty per cent of the actual property taxes paid in the rebate year.
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 This Act may be cited as the Helping Seniors Stay at Home Act. 2 (1) Subsection 5(2) of Chapter 419 of the Revised Statutes, 1989, the Senior Citizens' Financial Aid Act, is amended by adding immediately after clause (a) the following clause:(3) Section 5 of Chapter 419 is further amended by adding immediately after subsection (3) the following subsection:
(2) The money required for the purpose of subsection (1) must be paid out of the money appropriated for that purpose by the Legislature.