SNL1998 CHAPTER S-13.1 - SELF-MANAGED HOME SUPPORTSERVICES ACT
This Act defines home support services, says the service recipient is generally treated as the employer, allows another person or group to be treated as the employer in specified cases, and starts on a day proclaimed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.
SNL1998 CHAPTER S-13.1 SELF-MANAGED HOME SUPPORT SERVICES ACT Amended: CHAPTER S-13.1 AN ACT RESPECTING HOME SUPPORT SERVICES PROVIDED TO PERSONS IN SELF-MANAGED CARE (Assented to December 15, 1998) Analysis 1. Short title 2. Definitions 3. Designation 4. Commencement Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows: Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Self-managed Home Support Services Act . 1998 cS-13.1 s1 Back to Top Definitions 2. In this Act "home support services" means services which the person receiving them assumes responsibility for managing or which another person or group of persons assumes responsibility for managing on behalf of the person receiving them and includes personal care, household management, behavioural aide services and respite services paid for in whole or in part from public money and provided to individuals and families to assist with activities of daily living in their own homes but does not include services provided by a person whose business or a part of whose business it is to provide those services using persons in its employ to do so. 1998 cS-13.1 s2 Back to Top Designation 3. (1) A person to whom home support services are being provided is considered to be the employer of the person who provides the home support services. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where a person to whom home support services are provided (a) is not competent to make decisions and carry out tasks ordinarily associated with being an employer and another person or a group of persons undertakes to do so on his or her behalf; or (b) agrees with another person or a group of persons that that person or group shall make decisions and carry out tasks ordinarily associated with being an employer and that person or group enters into a contract with the minister to act as the employer, that person or group is considered to be the employer of the person who provides the home support services. 1998 cS-13.1 s3 Back to Top Commencement 4. This Act or a section of this Act comes into force on a day to be proclaimed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. (In force - Jan. 15/99) 1998 cS-13.1 s4 ©Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer