New Brunswick's Pay Transparency Act received Royal Assent on June 12, 2026. One of its central employer duties started that day. Section 5 requires expected pay or a pay range in any new public or internal job posting, and it limits when employers can ask about compensation history. Several other parts of the Act, including the future reporting framework and the reprisal protections, are expressly held back until proclamation. What took effect on Royal Assent The Act didn't set a separate start date for section 5. That matters because of the province's Interpretation Act. Section 3(2) of that statute makes the day of Royal Assent the commencement date when an enactment doesn't supply another one. Section 23 of the Pay Transparency Act lists the provisions that are deferred, and section 5 isn't among them. The result is that the employer posting and compensation history duties have applied since June 12, 2026. That is a narrower statement than saying the whole Act is in force. It isn't.
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