Mahsi, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Range Lake, that Bill 7, An Act to Amend the Summary Conviction Procedures Act, be read for the second time.
Mr. Speaker, this bill amends the Summary Conviction Procedures Act to provide that a justice may enter a conviction and impose the specified penalty where a person who has been summonsed to appear before the justice by way of ticket fails to either pay the specified penalty or to appear as summonsed.
The maximum fine for failing to appear before a justice as required is increased, and formalities relating to information are clarified. Minor amendments are also made to ensure consistency of terminology. Mahsi, Mr. Speaker.
Bill 7 has had second reading and is referred to a standing committee.
---Carried
The honourable Minister of Finance, Mr. Miltenberger.
