3rd Session, 62nd General Assembly
Nova Scotia
66 Elizabeth II, 2017
The Honourable Sterling Belliveau
Queens–Shelburne
First Reading: April 26, 2017
Second Reading:
Third Reading:
This Bill deems persons aboard commercial fishing vessels to be persons at risk of drowning for the purposes of the Occupational Safety General Regulations, which results in the wearing of a personal flotation device being mandatory while on deck.
Be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 Section 14 of N.S. Reg. 44/99, the Occupational Safety General Regulations, made pursuant to Section 82 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, as enacted by N.S. Reg. 53/2013, is amended by adding immediately after subsection (7) the following subsection: