Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the honourable Member for Thebacha, that Bill 47, An Act to Amend the Child and Family Services Act, be read for the second time.
This bill includes amendments to the Child and Family Services Act that would add a new definition of youth and add provisions respecting the protection and services available to youth, add a new provision requiring the director to notify a child and a child’s parents of the right to be represented by legal counsel, add a new provision providing for mediation, amend the criteria for determining that a child needs protection, add a new provision requiring an application for an apprehension order to include a statement of alternatives to apprehension that had been considered, add a new provision requiring notification of the applicable Aboriginal organizations of an application for an apprehension order in respect to an Aboriginal child, amend the maximum amount of time the child may be placed in a temporary custody by the director or of the director, add a new provision authorizing new roles of the child and family services committees, add a new provision requiring the Legislative Assembly to conduct periodic reviews of the act and make minor technical changes and corrections.
Thank you, Mr. Abernethy. The motion is in order. To the principle of the bill.
Question.
Question has been called. The motion is carried.
---Carried
Bill 47 has had second reading and is referred to standing committee.
Item 20, consideration in Committee of the Whole of bills and other matters: Bill 12, Employee Benefits Services Pension Plan Act; Bill 36, Health and Social Services Professions Act; Bill 46, Deline Final Self-Government Agreement Act; Committee Report 10-17(5), Standing Committee on Government Operations Report on the Review of the 2013-2014 Annual Report of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of the Northwest Territories; Tabled Document 188-17(5), Northwest Territories Main Estimates 2015-2016; Tabled Document 205-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 5, 2014-2015; Tabled Document 206-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Operations Expenditures), No. 3, 2014-2015; and Tabled Document 207-17(5), Supplementary Estimates (Infrastructure Expenditures), No. 1, 2015-2016, with Mrs. Groenewegen in the chair.
