Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act

Marginal note:Staff of the Board

• 26 (1) The Board may, on the recommendation of the Chief Executive Officer, employ such other officers and such employees as are necessary to properly perform the duties and functions of the Board under this Act and the Accord.

• Marginal note:Method of selection

  (2) The appointment of every person employed pursuant to subsection (1) shall be based on selection according to merit.

• Marginal note:Presumption

  (3) Except as provided in subsection (4), no person employed pursuant to subsection (1) shall, by virtue of that employment, be considered to be employed in the federal public administration or the public service of the Province.

• Marginal note:Mobility of staff

  (4) For the purpose of being eligible for appointment to a position in the public service by an appointment process under the Public Service Employment Act,

  • (a) any person who, immediately prior to being employed by the Board, was employed in the public service shall be deemed to be a person employed in the public service in the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources in the location where that person is performing duties for the Board and in a position of an occupational nature and at a level equivalent to the position in which that person is employed by the Board; and

  • (b) any person who, immediately prior to being employed by the Board, was not employed in the public service shall, two years after being employed by the Board, be deemed to be a person employed in the public service in the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources in the location where that person is performing duties for the Board and in a position of an occupational nature and at a level equivalent to the position in which that person is employed by the Board.

• Marginal note:Application of Nova Scotia legislation

  (4.1) Nova Scotia social legislation as defined in subsection 210.001(1), the provisions of the Trade Union Act, R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 475, as amended from time to time, and the provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, S.N.S. 1996, c. 7, as amended from time to time, and any regulations made under that legislation or those Acts, apply to persons employed under subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Non-application of Canada Labour Code

  (4.2) Despite section 4 and subsections 123(1) and 168(1) of the Canada Labour Code, that Act does not apply to persons employed under subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Definition of public service

  (5) In this section, public service has the same meaning as in the Federal Public Sector Labour Relations Act.