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S.M. 1986-87, c. 44
An Act to amend The Legislative Assembly Act
(Assented to September 10, 1986)
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:
Section 59.1 of The Legislative Assembly Act, chapter L110 of the Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:
For each session of the Legislature there shall be allowed and paid to each member who represents an electoral division that is wholly or partly outside the City of Winnipeg, other than a member whose ordinary residence is within the City of Winnipeg, and who is attending the session, a living allowance of $40. for each day from the opening of the session to prorogation or dissolution, excepting days during an adjournment of the Assembly for a period of 10 or more continuous days.
Where 2 residences maintained.
For each session of the Legislature there shall be allowed and paid to each member who
(a) represents an electoral division that is wholly outside the City of Winnipeg;
(b) maintains both a residence in the electoral division and, for purposes of attending the session, a residence in the City of Winnipeg; and
(c) is attending the session; a living allowance of $65. for each day from the opening of the session to prorogation or dissolution, excepting days during an adjournment of the Assembly for a period of 10 or more continuous days.
The entitlement to an allowance under subsection (1) or (2) is in addition to the amounts allowed and payable under any other provision of this Act but no member shall receive an allowance under both subsection (1) and subsection (2).
An allowance payable under this section shall be paid in respect of each period of 2 weeks during the session.
All those words preceding clause (a) in subsection 62(2) are repealed and the following substituted therefor:
62(2)
The total of the travel allowance payable under subsection (1) to any member shall not exceed, in any fiscal year, the product of 52 times the allowance which would be payable to a civil servant pursuant to The Civil Service Act and the regulations made thereunder for a single trip of the distance, as determined and certified by the Speaker or the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, that it is necessary to travel.
Subsection 63(1) of the Act is amended by striking out the figures "$2,500. 00" in the 3rd line and substituting therefor the figures "$3,500.
Section 63 of the Act is amended by adding immediately after subsection (2) thereof the following subsections:
Subject to subsection (2.2) there shall be allowed and paid in respect of each fiscal year to each member an access allowance not exceeding $6,000. for expenses incurred by the member to permit the member to hold meetings with constituents, to prepare and distribute informational material relating to constituency matters, to disseminate information to constituents and for such other matters as may be determined in the Rules made by Legislative Assembly Management Commission together with office and personnel expenses associated therewith.
The access allowance payable under subsection (2.1) shall be paid
(a) on the basis of accounts submitted by the member to the Clerk of the House and approved by the Speaker; and
(b) for only those types of expenses that are identified in the Rules made by the Legislative Assembly Management Commission as types of expenses for which an access allowance may be paid under this section.
For the fiscal year ending March 31, 1987, the amount of the access allowance payable under subsection (2.1) shall be paid pro-rata for the portion of that fiscal year that subsection (2.1) is in force.
The Act is further amended by adding immediately after subsection 63(3) the following subsection:
The Speaker may delegate the power to approve allowances payable under section 62 and this section to the clerk of the assembly, the deputy clerk of the assembly and any other member of the offices required for the administration of the Legislative Assembly Act.
Subsection 64(1) of the Act is amended by striking out the figures "$50.00" in clause (a) and substituting therefor the figures "$75. "
Subsection 66.4(1) of the Act is repealed and the following substituted therefor:
In addition to any other privileges that a member has in respect of the sending of letters by mail at the expense of the government, each member may, three times in each fiscal year, mail letters at the expense of the government to each household in the electoral division that the member represents.
Subsection 66.4(3) of the Act is repealed and the following substituted therefor:
In addition to any other privileges that a member has in respect of the printing of written matter at the expense of the government, each member may, three times in each fiscal year, have printed at the expense of the government written matter for circulation to the householders in the electoral division which the member represents, but the cost to the government of each printing of written matter requested by a member under this subsection shall not exceed the product of 1 1/2 times the cost that would be incurred by the government for a mailing of that printed matter if it were mailed for the member at the expense of the government under subsection (1).
Subsection 66.5(1) of the Act is amended by striking out the figures "$500. 00" in the 2nd line and substituting therefor the figures "$1,500. "
The Act is further amended by adding the following section immediately after section 66.6:
For purposes of any fiscal year beginning after this section comes into force, the living allowance allowed and payable to a member under subsection 59.1(1) or (2), the maximum constituency allowance allowed and payable to a member under subsection 63(1), the maximum access allowance allowed and payable under subsection 63(2.1), the indemnity allowed and payable under subsection 64(1), and the sum allowed and payable to a member for special supplies and assistance under subsection 66.5(1) shall be increased over the amount payable to a member under those subsections as an allowance or indemnity in the next previous fiscal year by an amount obtained by multiplying the amount of the indemnity or allowance, as the case may be, by the percentage increase in the consumer price index for Canada between December 31 in the second fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year for which the indemnity or allowance is paid and December 31 in the fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year for which the indemnity or allowance is paid.
In calculating the cost of living increase under subsection (1) or subsection 59(3), the amount arrived at shall be rounded to the nearest dollar.
This Act comes into force on the day it receives the royal assent.