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Bill PR1 explained in plain English

1976998 Ontario Inc. Act, 2025

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

At a glance

Jurisdiction
Ontario Legislature
Legislature / Parliament
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Session
44th Parliament, 1st Session
Bill number
Bill PR1
Full title
1976998 Ontario Inc. Act, 2025
Current status
Passed
Latest event
Royal Assent received
Last updated
Jun 5, 2025
Sponsor

Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 44th 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 5, 2025
Sponsor
Plain-language explanation
In plain English (our explanation)

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Short Version

The 1976998 Ontario Inc. Act, 2025, revives the dissolved corporation 1976998 Ontario Inc., restoring it to its previous legal status.

What It Means

This private bill, the 1976998 Ontario Inc. Act, 2025, revives the corporation 1976998 Ontario Inc. The corporation was voluntarily dissolved on July 26, 2023. The applicants, who were directors and shareholders at the time of dissolution, wish to revive it to continue business under its name. The bill restores the corporation to its legal position as if it had never been dissolved, subject to any rights acquired by others since its dissolution. The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.

What This Bill Does
  • Revives the corporation 1976998 Ontario Inc.
  • Restores 1976998 Ontario Inc. to its legal position as of the date of its dissolution, including its property, rights, privileges, franchises, liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts.
  • Makes the revival subject to any rights that any person acquired after the corporation's dissolution.
  • States that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
Who Is Affected
  • 1976998 Ontario Inc.
  • Bijun Gong
  • Zhenyu Gong
  • The public or any persons who may have acquired rights related to 1976998 Ontario Inc. after its dissolution on July 26, 2023.
Rights, Duties, Or Obligations
  • The revived corporation, 1976998 Ontario Inc., is subject to all its former liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts.
  • The revival is subject to any rights that any person acquired after the corporation's dissolution.
Important Dates
  • July 26, 2023: Date of voluntary dissolution of 1976998 Ontario Inc.
  • June 5, 2025: Date the Act received Royal Assent and came into force.
Uncertainties Or Limits
  • The bill does not specify the exact nature of the rights acquired by third parties after the dissolution that would be preserved.
  • The bill does not detail how the corporation's liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts will be managed or settled now that it is revived.
  • The bill does not outline any specific procedures for the corporation to resume its business operations beyond the fact of its revival.
Laws Or Regulations Affected
Business Corporations Act
amended

Although the corporation was dissolved under this Act, this private bill effectively overrides that dissolution for the specific corporation, 1976998 Ontario Inc. The bill does not directly amend the Business Corporations Act itself but provides a specific revival mechanism outside of its standard provisions.

Source: Preamble

1976998 Ontario Inc. Act, 2025
commencement

This Act came into force on the day it received 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
Apr 17, 2025
Step 2
Second reading
Jun 4, 2025
Step 3
Committee review
Not reached yet
Step 4
Third reading
Jun 4, 2025
Step 5
Royal assent
Jun 5, 2025

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
Jess Dixon
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario | Kitchener South—Hespeler
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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