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Bill PR36 explained in plain English

839255 Ontario Inc. Act, 2016

Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.

At a glance

Jurisdiction
Ontario Legislature
Legislature / Parliament
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Session
41st Parliament, 1st Session
Bill number
Bill PR36
Full title
839255 Ontario Inc. Act, 2016
Current status
Passed
Latest event
Royal Assent received
Last updated
Jun 9, 2016
Sponsor

Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 41st Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.

Chamber
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Current Stage
Royal Assent received
Latest Activity
Jun 9, 2016
Sponsor
Plain-language explanation
In plain English (our explanation)

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Source: By PoliticalData.ca

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Short Version

This Act revives the dissolved corporation 839255 Ontario Inc. and restores it to its legal position as if it had never been dissolved.

What It Means

This Act revives a corporation called 839255 Ontario Inc. The corporation was dissolved in 1998 because it failed to comply with a requirement of the Business Corporations Act. The applicant, who was the president, secretary, treasurer, sole shareholder, and a director of the corporation when it was dissolved, stated that the failure to comply was an oversight and that business continued to be carried out in the corporation's name after its dissolution. The Act restores the corporation to its legal position as of the date of its dissolution, including its property, rights, privileges, franchises, liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts, as if it had not been dissolved, unless a person has acquired rights after its dissolution.

What This Bill Does
  • Revives the corporation 839255 Ontario Inc.
  • Restores the corporation to its legal position as it was at the date of its dissolution.
  • Restores the corporation's property, rights, privileges, and franchises.
  • Restores the corporation's liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts.
  • Specifies that the revival is subject to any rights acquired by any person after the corporation's dissolution.
  • States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
  • Names the Act as the 839255 Ontario Inc. Act, 2016.
Who Is Affected
  • 839255 Ontario Inc.
  • Suzanne Masil (applicant, former president, secretary, treasurer, sole shareholder, and director of 839255 Ontario Inc.)
  • Persons who may have acquired rights after the dissolution of 839255 Ontario Inc.
Rights, Duties, Or Obligations
  • The corporation is restored to its legal position, including all its property, rights, privileges, and franchises.
  • The corporation remains subject to all its liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts.
  • The revival is subject to rights acquired by any person after the corporation's dissolution.
Important Dates
  • The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent (June 9, 2016).
Uncertainties Or Limits
  • The extent to which rights acquired by other persons after the dissolution of 839255 Ontario Inc. might affect its revival is not detailed in the bill text.
Laws Or Regulations Affected
Business Corporations Act
amended indirectly by revival

The dissolution of 839255 Ontario Inc. under this Act in 1998 is reversed by the revival provided in Bill PR36.

Source: Preamble

Commencement provision
commencement

This Act becomes law on the date it receives Royal Assent.

Source: Section 2

Generated using AI from official bill text. Not legal advice. It is written by PoliticalData.ca for civic education, automatically checked and spot-reviewed before publishing.

Official text

Process Snapshot

Step 1
First reading
Feb 16, 2016
Step 2
Second reading
Jun 8, 2016
Step 3
Committee review
Mar 2, 2016
Step 4
Third reading
Jun 8, 2016
Step 5
Royal assent
Jun 9, 2016

Vote Summary

No published recorded division

This bill does not have a published recorded division in the current official sources, so representative-by-representative vote counts are not shown.

Sponsor
Soo Wong
Sponsor party or district not listed
Jurisdiction
Ontario Legislature

No published representative vote breakdown

The current official sources do not publish a recorded division breakdown for this bill, so there is no representative-by-representative table to show.

Official sources

Status, sponsor, votes, and timeline on this page are drawn from these official legislative sources and public records. Each summary above is attributed to its own source.

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