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Bill PR24 explained in plain English

Parrington’s Food Market Limited Act, 2023

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

At a glance

Jurisdiction
Ontario Legislature
Legislature / Parliament
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Session
43rd Parliament, 1st Session
Bill number
Bill PR24
Full title
Parrington’s Food Market Limited Act, 2023
Current status
Passed
Latest event
Royal Assent received
Last updated
Oct 26, 2023

Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 43rd 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
Oct 26, 2023
Plain-language explanation
In plain English (our explanation)

Our plain-language take, written for civic education.

Source: By PoliticalData.ca

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Short Version

This Act revives the corporation Parrington's Food Market Limited, restoring its legal status as if it had not been dissolved.

What It Means

This Ontario Act provides for the revival of Parrington's Food Market Limited. The company was voluntarily dissolved on January 12, 2023. The Act restores the company to its legal position as if it had not been dissolved, subject to any rights acquired by others after its dissolution. This revival is intended to allow the company to address outstanding tax matters.

What This Bill Does
  • Revives Parrington's Food Market Limited.
  • Restores Parrington's Food Market Limited to its legal position, including its property, rights, privileges, franchises, liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts, as they existed at the time of its dissolution.
  • States that this revival is subject to any rights that have been acquired by any person after the company's dissolution.
Who Is Affected
  • Parrington's Food Market Limited
  • Joe and Angela Parrington (shareholders at the time of dissolution)
  • Any person who acquired rights after the dissolution of Parrington's Food Market Limited
Rights, Duties, Or Obligations
  • The corporation is restored to its legal position, including all its property, rights, privileges and franchises and subject to all its liabilities, contracts, disabilities and debts.
  • The revival is subject to any rights acquired by any person after the corporation's dissolution.
Important Dates
  • The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent, which was October 26, 2023.
  • Parrington's Food Market Limited was voluntarily dissolved on January 12, 2023.
Financial Or Tax Impacts
  • The revival of the corporation is intended to allow it to deal with certain outstanding tax matters.
Uncertainties Or Limits
  • The Act does not specify the exact nature or scope of the 'outstanding tax matters' that the revived corporation will address.
  • The revival is subject to 'any rights acquired by any person after its dissolution', but the specific rights and how they will be handled are not detailed.
  • The Act does not specify if any further steps or filings are required for the corporation to fully resume operations beyond its legal revival.
Laws Or Regulations Affected
Parrington's Food Market Limited
revived

The corporation is brought back into legal existence and is restored to its previous legal standing.

Source: Section 1

Business Corporations Act
affected by dissolution

The corporation was voluntarily dissolved under this Act.

Source: Preamble

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Official text

Process Snapshot

Step 1
First reading
May 10, 2023
Step 2
Second reading
Oct 25, 2023
Step 3
Committee review
Not reached yet
Step 4
Third reading
Oct 25, 2023
Step 5
Royal assent
Oct 26, 2023

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
Bobbi Ann Brady
Independent | Haldimand—Norfolk
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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