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1st Session, 43rd Legislature

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Bill 10

THE ADVANCED EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION AMENDMENT ACT


  Bilingual version (PDF) Explanatory Note

(Assented to                                         )

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

C.C.S.M. c. A6.3 amended

1   The Advanced Education Administration Act is amended by this Act.

2(1)   Subsection 2.3(5) is amended by adding "and must make the results of the review publicly available" at the end.

2(2)   The following is added after subsection 2.3(5):

Ministerial action re policy

2.3(6)   If the minister determines that an institution referred to in subsection (2) has not complied with this section and the regulations made under clause 12(b.1), the minister may direct the Minister of Finance to deduct any amount from any grant requisitioned for the institution under section 9.1 or 9.6.

Deduction must be made

2.3(7)   The Minister of Finance must comply with a direction received under subsection (6).

Coming into force

3   This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.

Explanatory Note

Under amendments to The Advanced Education Administration Act, the government may reduce funding to an educational institution that fails to adopt and implement a sexual violence policy that meets the requirements of the Act.

An educational institution must also make the results of a review of its sexual violence policy publicly available.