Bill 86 explained in plain English
Conservation Authorities Amendment 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, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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Bill 86 proposes to amend the Conservation Authorities Act by requiring at least half of conservation authority members to have specific environmental or natural resource experience, and mandates the termination and potential reappointment of existing members based on these new qualifications.
This bill, the Conservation Authorities Amendment Act, 2016, proposes changes to the Conservation Authorities Act in Ontario. It aims to ensure that at least half of the members appointed to a conservation authority have significant training, experience, or a relevant employment history in environmental or natural resource fields. The bill also requires that all current appointments to conservation authorities be ended, but allows members whose appointments are terminated to be reappointed if they meet these new qualification requirements. A provision is included to clarify how reappointment affects the calculation of a member's term limit.
- Amends the Conservation Authorities Act.
- Establishes a requirement that at least half of the members of a conservation authority must possess significant training, experience, or employment history in an environmental or natural resource field.
- Mandates the termination of all current appointments to conservation authorities.
- Allows members whose appointments are terminated to be eligible for reappointment if they meet the new qualification requirements.
- Clarifies that reappointed members will be considered to have served continuously for the purpose of term limits, minus the period between termination and reappointment.
- Conservation authorities
- Members of conservation authorities
- Participating municipalities that appoint members to conservation authorities
- Individuals seeking appointment or reappointment to conservation authorities
- Conservation authorities must ensure at least half of their members have significant training, experience, or employment history in an environmental or natural resource field.
- Existing appointments to conservation authorities must be terminated.
- Members whose appointments are terminated are eligible for reappointment if they meet the new qualifications.
- The Act comes into force six months after receiving Royal Assent.
- Within six months after the new appointment requirement comes into force, municipal councils must terminate all existing appointments and make new ones.
- The bill does not specify what constitutes 'significant training, experience or employment history' in an environmental or natural resource field.
- The bill does not detail the process or criteria by which municipal councils will make new appointments beyond the qualification requirement.
Adds new requirements for the qualifications of conservation authority members and outlines a process for the termination and reappointment of existing members.
Source: Section 14
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