Purchase and Sale of Precious Metal Articles Act

An Act respecting the establishment of a National Strategy for the Purchase and Sale of Second-hand Precious Metal Articles

This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in March 2011.

Sponsor

Paul Calandra  Conservative

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of March 11, 2011
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment provides for the establishment of a national strategy for the purchase and sale of second-hand precious metal articles by precious metal dealers to protect Canadians from corrupt practices in these transactions.

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 C-638s:

C-638 (2014) An Act to amend the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 (wreck)