Bill 197 explained in plain English
Allergy Friendly Schoolyard Act, 2016
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 41st Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Allergy Friendly Schoolyard Act, 2016, amends the Education Act to ban the planting of new allergenic plants on school premises, with the definition of "allergenic" to be determined by regulation.
This bill, the Allergy Friendly Schoolyard Act, 2016, amends the Education Act to prohibit the planting of new allergenic plants on school property. It requires school boards to ensure this prohibition is followed. The bill defines an "allergenic plant" as one that meets requirements set by the Lieutenant Governor in Council through regulations. The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- Amends the Education Act to prohibit the planting of new allergenic plants on school premises.
- Requires every school board to ensure that no new allergenic plants are planted on school premises.
- Provides that a plant is considered allergenic if it meets prescribed allergenicity requirements.
- Allows the Lieutenant Governor in Council to make regulations prescribing allergenicity requirements.
- Specifies that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- School boards
- School authorities
- Students
- Staff in schools
- The Lieutenant Governor in Council (in relation to making regulations)
- School boards have a duty to ensure no new allergenic plants are planted on school premises.
- The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- The specific definition of an "allergenic plant" is not provided in the bill itself but is to be established through future regulations made by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.
Adds a new section (58.0.1) to Part II.1 of the Act, which prohibits the planting of new allergenic plants on school premises and allows for regulations to define what constitutes an allergenic plant.
Source: Section 1
Authorizes the Lieutenant Governor in Council to create regulations that prescribe the allergenicity requirements for plants to be considered allergenic.
Source: Section 1 (3)
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