Red Tape Reduction Statutes Amendment Act, 2023 (Unproclaimed Section Only)

RED TAPE REDUCTION STATUTES AMENDMENT ACT, 2023 Chapter 5 HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, enacts as follows: Income and Employment Supports Act Amends SA 2003 cI-0.5 5 (1) The Income and Employment Supports Act is amended by this section. (2) The following is added after section 15: Consequences of outstanding warrant 15.1 The Director must, subject to the regulations, refuse to provide income support and benefits to an applicant or recipient under Part 2, Division 1 when notified that (a) a warrant for the arrest of the applicant or recipient has been issued in respect of a prescribed offence, and (b) the warrant has not been executed. (3) Section 18 is amended by adding the following after clause (t): (t.1) respecting circumstances in which the Director may provide or continue to provide all or a portion of income support and benefits under Part 2, Division 1 for the purposes of section 15.1; (t.2) prescribing offences or classes of offences for the purposes of section 15.1(a); (4) Section 49 is amended (a) in subsection (4) by adding “15.1,” after “sections”; (b) by adding the following after subsection (4): (4.1) The Minister responsible for Schedule 9 to the Government Organization Act is authorized to disclose information, including personal information, for the purposes of section 15.1. (5) This section comes into force on Proclamation.