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Bill PR8 explained in plain English

Good Fortune Corporation Act, 2019

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

At a glance

Jurisdiction
Ontario Legislature
Legislature / Parliament
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Session
42nd Parliament, 1st Session
Bill number
Bill PR8
Full title
Good Fortune Corporation Act, 2019
Current status
Passed
Latest event
Royal Assent received
Last updated
Jun 6, 2019

Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 42nd 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 6, 2019
Plain-language explanation
In plain English (our explanation)

Our plain-language take, written for civic education.

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Short Version

Bill Pr8 revives the Good Fortune Corporation, restoring it to its legal status as of its dissolution in 2017 to allow for the collection of outstanding monies.

What It Means

This bill revives the Good Fortune Corporation, which was voluntarily dissolved on August 24, 2017. The revival restores the corporation to its legal position as if it had not been dissolved, subject to any rights acquired by others after its dissolution. The corporation will have its property, rights, privileges, franchises, liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts as it did on the date of dissolution. This revival is to allow the collection of money owed to the corporation.

What This Bill Does
  • Revives the Good Fortune Corporation.
  • Restores the Good Fortune Corporation to its legal position, including property, rights, privileges, franchises, liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts, as if it had not been dissolved, subject to rights acquired by others after dissolution.
  • Establishes the short title of the Act as the Good Fortune Corporation Act, 2019.
  • Specifies that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
Who Is Affected
  • Good Fortune Corporation
  • Yang Liu (applicant and former director/shareholder)
  • Any persons who acquired rights after the dissolution of Good Fortune Corporation
Rights, Duties, Or Obligations
  • Restoration of all property, rights, privileges, and franchises of Good Fortune Corporation.
  • Restoration of all liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts of Good Fortune Corporation.
  • The revival is subject to any rights acquired by any person after the dissolution of the corporation.
Important Dates
  • August 24, 2017 (date of dissolution of Good Fortune Corporation)
  • June 6, 2019 (date the Act received Royal Assent and came into force)
Financial Or Tax Impacts
  • The revival aims to allow the collection of monies owing to Good Fortune Corporation.
Uncertainties Or Limits
  • The revival of the corporation is subject to any rights that have been acquired by any person after the corporation's dissolution.
Laws Or Regulations Affected
Good Fortune Corporation
revived

The Good Fortune Corporation is brought back into legal existence, with its rights, property, and liabilities restored to what they were before its dissolution.

Source: 1

Business Corporations Act
implicitly affected

The voluntary dissolution of Good Fortune Corporation under this Act is reversed by this special legislation.

Source: Preamble

Good Fortune Corporation Act, 2019
commencement

This Act comes into effect on the date it receives Royal Assent.

Source: 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
Jun 6, 2019
Step 2
Second reading
Jun 6, 2019
Step 3
Committee review
Apr 10, 2019
Step 4
Third reading
Jun 6, 2019
Step 5
Royal assent
Jun 6, 2019

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
Aris Babikian
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario | Scarborough—Agincourt
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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