Bill S-10 (Historical)

Federal Law-Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 2

A second Act to harmonize federal law with the civil law of the Province of Quebec and to amend certain Acts in order to ensure that each language version takes into account the common law and the civil law

This bill is from the 38th Parliament, 1st session, which ended in November 2005.

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.

Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament has also written a full legislative summary of the bill.

This enactment is the second in a series of enactments drafted in the course of the harmonization initiation of the Department of Justice of Canada undertaken as a result of the coming into force of the Civil Code of Québec in 1994, which substantially changed the concepts, institutions and terminology of civil law.
It continues and completes the harmonization, with the civil law of the Province of Quebec, of some of the statutes that were partially harmonized by the first harmonization Act (Federal Law–Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 1, S.C. 2001, c. 4) and of certain other statutes.

Similar bills

C-37 (37th Parliament, 3rd session) Federal Law-Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 2

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other S-10s:

S-10 (2022) Law An Act to give effect to the Anishinabek Nation Governance Agreement, to amend the Sechelt Indian Band Self-Government Act and the Yukon First Nations Self-Government Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts

S-10 (2012) Prohibiting Cluster Munitions Act

S-10 (2010) Penalties for Organized Drug Crime Act

S-10 (2004) Marriage Act

S-10 (2002) Personal Watercraft Act

S-10 (2001) Law An Act to amend the Parliament of Canada Act (Parliamentary Poet Laureate)