Bill PR36 explained in plain English
Eastern Children of Israel Congregation Act, 2024
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Bill PR36 revives the Eastern Children of Israel Congregation, restoring all its property, rights, and liabilities to their state before dissolution in 1955.
Bill PR36 revives the Eastern Children of Israel Congregation, a corporation whose letters patent were cancelled in 1955 under the Corporations Act, 1953 because it failed to meet filing requirements. The bill restores the congregation to its legal position as it existed at the time of dissolution, including all its property, rights, privileges, franchises, liabilities, contracts, and debts. The revival is subject to any rights that other people acquired after the congregation was dissolved. The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent, which was April 25, 2024.
- Revives the Eastern Children of Israel Congregation as a legal corporation
- Restores the congregation to its legal position, including all property, rights, privileges, and franchises that it held at the time of dissolution
- Restores all liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts of the corporation as they existed at dissolution
- Makes the revival subject to any rights that other people acquired after the congregation was dissolved
- Comes into force on the day the bill receives Royal Assent (April 25, 2024)
- Eric Solomon, the applicant and executor of Abraham Solomon's estate, who sought the revival to deal with property held in the corporation's name
- Members and stakeholders of the Eastern Children of Israel Congregation
- Any person who acquired rights related to the congregation's property after its dissolution in 1955
- The revived congregation is restored to all its property, rights, privileges, and franchises as they existed at dissolution
- The revived congregation assumes all its liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts as they existed at dissolution
- The revival is subject to any rights acquired by other persons after the congregation's dissolution
- November 7, 1955: Date the congregation's letters patent were cancelled under the Corporations Act, 1953
- April 25, 2024: Royal Assent received; the Act comes into force on this date
- The bill does not specify which property was held in the congregation's name at the time of dissolution
- The bill does not detail what specific liabilities, contracts, or debts the corporation holds
- The bill states the revival is 'subject to any rights acquired by any person after its dissolution' but does not provide guidance on how conflicts between the revived congregation's restored rights and third-party rights acquired after 1955 would be resolved
- The bill does not specify whether the revival affects property or rights currently held by others or registered in other names
The corporation's letters patent, which were cancelled under this Act in 1955 for failure to comply with the Corporations Information Act, 1953, are effectively revived by this special legislation
The failure to comply with this Act's requirements led to the original cancellation of the congregation's letters patent in 1955; this bill does not directly change the Act but revives a corporation originally affected by it
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