Bill PR21 explained in plain English
Weiche Estates Inc Act, 2015
Ontario legislature bill summary, status, timeline, sponsor, votes, and official sources.
At a glance
Official Legislative Assembly of Ontario snapshot for 41st Parliament, 1st Session. Representative vote breakdowns appear when the Assembly publishes an Ayes and Nays page for the bill.
Our plain-language take, written for civic education.
Source: By PoliticalData.ca
Bill PR21 revives the corporation Weiche Estates Inc., restoring it to its pre-dissolution legal status for participation in legal proceedings.
This Act, the Weiche Estates Inc Act, 2015, provides for the revival of Weiche Estates Inc. The corporation was voluntarily dissolved on March 16, 2009. The Act restores the corporation to its legal position as if it had never been dissolved, subject to any rights acquired by others after its dissolution. This revival is intended to allow a former shareholder to participate in legal proceedings. The Act came into force on the day it received Royal Assent.
- Revives the corporation Weiche Estates Inc.
- Restores Weiche Estates Inc. to its legal position, including its property, rights, privileges, franchises, liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts, as if it had not been dissolved.
- Makes the revival subject to any rights acquired by any person after the corporation's dissolution.
- Establishes that the Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent.
- Provides the short title of the Act as the Weiche Estates Inc Act, 2015.
- Weiche Estates Inc.
- Jacob Weiche (applicant and former shareholder)
- Persons who acquired rights after the dissolution of Weiche Estates Inc.
- Weiche Estates Inc. is restored to all its property, rights, privileges, and franchises.
- Weiche Estates Inc. remains subject to all its liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts as of the date of its dissolution.
- The revival is subject to any rights acquired by any person after Weiche Estates Inc. was dissolved.
- March 16, 2009: Date of voluntary dissolution of Weiche Estates Inc.
- June 4, 2015: Date of Royal Assent and commencement of the Act.
- The Act states the revival is subject to 'any rights acquired by any person after its dissolution,' but does not specify how any potential conflicts arising from these acquired rights would be resolved.
- The Act does not specify any process for identifying or notifying persons who acquired rights after the dissolution.
- The Act does not detail the specific legal proceedings in which the revived corporation intends to participate.
Although not directly amended by this Act, the Business Corporations Act was the legislation under which Weiche Estates Inc. was dissolved. This Act's revival of the corporation effectively overrides the dissolution process initiated under that Act.
Source: Preamble
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 textProcess Snapshot
Vote Summary
This bill does not have a published recorded division in the current official sources, so representative-by-representative vote counts are not shown.
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