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Bill PR57 explained in plain English

Total Pest Management Services Ltd. Act, 2021

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, 2nd Session
Bill number
Bill PR57
Full title
Total Pest Management Services Ltd. Act, 2021
Current status
Passed
Latest event
Royal Assent received
Last updated
Dec 9, 2021
Sponsor

Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 42nd Parliament, 2nd 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
Dec 9, 2021
Sponsor
Plain-language explanation
In plain English (our explanation)

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Short Version

Bill PR57, the Total Pest Management Services Ltd. Act, 2021, revives the dissolved corporation Total Pest Management Services Ltd. and restores it to its legal position.

What It Means

This Ontario Act revives a corporation called Total Pest Management Services Ltd. The corporation was dissolved on September 28, 2020. The Act restores the corporation to its legal position as if it had not been dissolved, subject to any rights acquired by others after its dissolution. This allows the corporation to deal with real property that was in its name when it dissolved. The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent, which was December 9, 2021.

What This Bill Does
  • Revives the corporation Total Pest Management Services Ltd. as if it had not been dissolved.
  • Restores the corporation to its legal position, including its property, rights, privileges, franchises, liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts, as they existed at the time of its dissolution.
  • Specifies that the revival is subject to any rights that have been acquired by any person after the corporation's dissolution.
  • States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
Who Is Affected
  • Total Pest Management Services Ltd.
  • Robert Pickard (applicant and former director)
  • Persons or entities who acquired rights after the dissolution of Total Pest Management Services Ltd.
Rights, Duties, Or Obligations
  • Total Pest Management Services Ltd. is restored to its property, rights, privileges, franchises, liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts as of the date of its dissolution.
Important Dates
  • The Act came into force on December 9, 2021, the day it received Royal Assent.
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. The Act does not specify how to resolve potential conflicts with these acquired rights.
Laws Or Regulations Affected
Total Pest Management Services Ltd.
revived

The corporation is revived and restored to its legal status, rights, and obligations as they were before its dissolution on September 28, 2020, except where others have acquired rights since that date.

The Business Corporations Act
impacted

This Act overrides the dissolution of Total Pest Management Services Ltd. under the Business Corporations Act, effectively reversing its dissolution.

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
Dec 9, 2021
Step 2
Second reading
Dec 9, 2021
Step 3
Committee review
Dec 8, 2021
Step 4
Third reading
Dec 9, 2021
Step 5
Royal assent
Dec 9, 2021

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
Dave Smith
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario | Peterborough—Kawartha
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.

How this data is sourced