Bill 4 explained in plain English
Health Profession Corporations Statute Law Amendment Act, 2013
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
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Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 40th Parliament, 2nd Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
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The Health Profession Corporations Statute Law Amendment Act, 2013, extends the existing ownership and governance rules for health profession corporations, previously specific to physicians and dentists, to all regulated health professions in Ontario.
This bill, the Health Profession Corporations Statute Law Amendment Act, 2013, expands the rules for ownership and governance of health profession corporations. Currently, these special rules mainly apply to physicians and dentists. This bill proposes to extend these rules to all regulated health professions in Ontario. This includes defining who can be a shareholder (including family members) and who can be an officer or director of these corporations. It also clarifies rules around the corporation's name and its business activities, stating it can only practice the governed health profession and related activities. The bill also makes changes to how these corporations are regulated under the Business Corporations Act.
- Amends the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 to define terms like 'family member', 'spouse', and 'voting member shareholder' in relation to health profession corporations.
- Establishes conditions for a corporation to be eligible to hold a certificate of authorization from a College, including requirements for its articles of incorporation, share ownership (voting and non-voting shares), and naming conventions.
- Introduces a duty for corporations holding a certificate of authorization to provide a statutory declaration to the Registrar upon a change in shareholders.
- Amends the Business Corporations Act to define 'health profession corporation'.
- Modifies provisions within the Business Corporations Act related to professional corporations to specify exceptions for health profession corporations.
- Introduces new rules for health profession corporations under the Business Corporations Act, detailing ownership of voting and non-voting shares, requirements for officers and directors, naming conventions, and the scope of business activities.
- Specifies that certain agreements, such as voting agreements and unanimous shareholder agreements, are void unless they meet the requirements for health profession corporations.
- Provides exemptions for health profession corporations, their shareholders, directors, and officers from certain provisions of the Business Corporations Act.
- Grants the Lieutenant Governor in Council the power to make regulations to exempt classes of health profession corporations, shareholders, directors, and officers from specific provisions.
- Members of regulated health professions in Ontario who may form or be shareholders of health profession corporations.
- Family members of shareholders of health profession corporations.
- Health profession corporations themselves.
- Colleges governing health professions.
- The Registrar (presumably of health professions or corporations).
- Officers and directors of health profession corporations.
- Health profession corporations must ensure their articles of incorporation limit business to the practice of the governed profession and related activities.
- Voting shares of health profession corporations must be owned by members of the College.
- Non-voting shares can be owned by a member of the College, a family member of a voting shareholder, or held in trust for minor children of a voting shareholder.
- All officers and directors of a health profession corporation must be shareholders and members of the College.
- Corporations must adhere to naming conventions that include 'Professional Corporation' or 'Société professionnelle' and reflect the profession being practiced.
- Corporations must provide a statutory declaration to the Registrar upon a change of shareholders.
- Voting agreements and unanimous shareholder agreements must comply with the new rules or are void.
- This Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- A corporation's certificate of authorization may be revoked if it fails to provide the required statutory declaration to the Registrar.
- The specific details and conditions for exemptions that may be made by regulation by the Lieutenant Governor in Council are not detailed in the bill text.
- The full scope of 'activities related to or ancillary to the practice of that profession' that a health profession corporation may carry on, beyond the core practice, is not exhaustively defined in the bill text.
- The definition of 'family member' is limited to spouse, child, or parent.
Adds new sections that define terms related to health profession corporations and set conditions for their eligibility for certificates of authorization, share ownership, and naming. It also establishes a requirement for a statutory declaration upon changes in shareholders and outlines procedures for certificate revocation.
Source: Section 1 of Bill 4
Adds a definition for 'health profession corporation', modifies existing sections concerning professional corporations to specifically address health profession corporations, and adds a new section detailing the conditions and rules applicable to them, including ownership, governance, and naming.
Source: Sections 2, 3, and 4 of Bill 4
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