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Advisory Council on the Status of Women Regulations

made under Section 7 of the

Advisory Council on the Status of Women Act

R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 3

O.I.C. 2003-432 (effective October 16, 2003), N.S. Reg. 177/2003

amended to O.I.C. 2018-150 (effective June 5, 2018), N.S. Reg. 90/2018


Table of Contents


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Citation

Definitions

President

Committees

Meetings


 

Citation

1     These regulations may be cited as the Advisory Council on the Status of Women Regulations.


Definitions

2     In these regulations

 

“Act” means the Advisory Council on the Status of Women Act;

 

“Council” means the Advisory Council on the Status of Women established pursuant to the Act;

 

“Executive Director” means the Executive Director appointed pursuant to the Act;

 

“Minister” means the member of the Executive Council who is charged by the Governor in Council with the administration of the Act;

 

“President” means the person designated as President by the Governor in Council under the Advisory Council on the Status of Women Act.


President

3     (1)    The President must chair the meetings of the Council.

 

       (2)    If the President is unable to chair a meeting, a majority of the Council must select a member who is present to act as chair for that meeting.

 

       (3)    The President must perform all of the following duties:

 

                (a)    act as the liaison between the Minister and the Council for the purposes of the Council’s duties prescribed in subsection 4(1) of the Act;

 

                (b)    advise the Executive Director of services required by the Council;

 

                (c)    represent the Council at conferences, meetings or other forums;

 

                (d)    act as spokesperson for the Council;

 

                (e)    carry out any undertakings assigned by the Minister for the purposes of the Act.


Committees

4     (1)    The Council may strike such committees as are required from time to time.

 

       (2)    The chair of a committee must be a member of the Council and must be elected to serve as the committee chair by a majority of the members of the committee.

 

       (3)    With the approval of the chair of a committee, a person who is not a member of the Council may participate on the committee on a volunteer basis.


Meetings

5     (1)    The Council must hold not more than 5 meetings in each year.

 

       (2)    The quorum for any meeting of the Council is a majority of the members of the Council.

 


 

Legislative History
Reference Tables

Advisory Council on the Status of Women Regulations

N.S. Reg. 177/2003

Advisory Council on the Status of Women Act

Note:  The information in these tables does not form part of the regulations and is compiled by the Office of the Registrar of Regulations for reference only.

Source Law

The current consolidation of the Advisory Council on the Status of Women Regulations made under the Advisory Council on the Status of Women Act includes all of the following regulations:

N.S.
Regulation

In force
date*

How in force

Royal Gazette
Part II Issue

177/2003

Oct 16, 2003

date specified

Oct 31, 2003

90/2018

Jun 5, 2018

date specified

Jun 22, 2018

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following regulations are not yet in force and are not included in the current consolidation:

N.S.
Regulation

In force
date*

How in force

Royal Gazette
Part II Issue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*See subsection 3(6) of the Regulations Act for rules about in force dates of regulations.

Amendments by Provision

ad. = added
am. = amended

fc. = fee change
ra. = reassigned

rep. = repealed
rs. = repealed and substituted

Provision affected

How affected

2........................................................

am. 90/2018

2 defn. of “Chair”........................

rep. 90/2018

2 defn. of “President”.................

ad. 90/2018

3........................................................

rs. 90/2018

Note that changes to headings are not included in the above table.

Editorial Notes and Corrections:

 

Note

Effective
date

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repealed and Superseded:

N.S.
Regulation

Title

In force
date

Repealed
date

 

 

 

 

Note:  Only regulations that are specifically repealed and replaced appear in this table.  It may not reflect the entire history of regulations on this subject matter.

 


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