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Bill PR20 explained in plain English

730159 Ontario Ltd. 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 PR20
Full title
730159 Ontario Ltd. Act, 2025
Current status
Passed
Latest event
Royal Assent received
Last updated
Dec 11, 2025

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
Dec 11, 2025
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 730159 Ontario Ltd., restoring its legal status and allowing it to resume business.

What It Means

Bill PR20, the 730159 Ontario Ltd. Act, 2025, revives a corporation named 730159 Ontario Ltd. The corporation was dissolved in 1994 for not complying with the Corporations Information Act. The applicant, Rolf-Harro Cohrs, who was the sole director when the company dissolved, stated the failure to comply was an accident and wishes to resume business under the company's name. This Act restores the corporation to its legal standing as if it had not been dissolved, subject to any rights acquired by others after its dissolution.

What This Bill Does
  • It revives the corporation 730159 Ontario Ltd.
  • It restores the corporation to its legal position as if it had not been dissolved, including all its property, rights, privileges, franchises, liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts.
  • It makes these changes subject to any rights that have been acquired by any person after the corporation was dissolved.
Who Is Affected
  • 730159 Ontario Ltd.
  • Rolf-Harro Cohrs
  • Any person who acquired rights in 730159 Ontario Ltd. after its dissolution in 1994.
Rights, Duties, Or Obligations
  • 730159 Ontario Ltd. is restored to its legal position with all its property, rights, privileges, and franchises.
  • 730159 Ontario Ltd. remains subject to all its liabilities, contracts, disabilities, and debts as of its dissolution.
  • The revival is subject to any rights acquired by others after the corporation's dissolution.
Important Dates
  • The Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent, which was December 11, 2025.
Uncertainties Or Limits
  • The revival of the corporation is subject to any rights that may have been acquired by any person after its dissolution.
  • The Act does not specify the exact nature or extent of these pre-existing rights.
Laws Or Regulations Affected
730159 Ontario Ltd. Act, 2025
enactment

This is the Act that provides for the revival of 730159 Ontario Ltd.

Business Corporations Act
implied change

This Act's revival of 730159 Ontario Ltd. overrides the dissolution that occurred under the Business Corporations Act.

Source: Preamble

Corporations Information Act
implied change

This Act's revival of 730159 Ontario Ltd. overrides the dissolution that occurred due to non-compliance with the Corporations Information Act.

Source: Preamble

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
Nov 3, 2025
Step 2
Second reading
Dec 10, 2025
Step 3
Committee review
Not reached yet
Step 4
Third reading
Dec 10, 2025
Step 5
Royal assent
Dec 11, 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
Brian Saunderson
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario | Simcoe—Grey
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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