Bill S-12 (Historical)

Federal Law-Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 3

A third Act to harmonize federal law with the civil law 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 40th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in March 2011.

Status

Second reading (House), as of Dec. 15, 2010
(This bill did not become 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 third in a series of enactments drafted in the course of the harmonization of federal statutes by the Department of Justice of Canada 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 amends a number of statutes including the Canada Business Corporations Act and the Expropriation Act in order to ensure that each language version takes into account the common law and the civil law.

Similar bills

S-3 (41st Parliament, 1st session) Law Federal Law–Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 3

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-12s:

S-12 (2023) Law An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Sex Offender Information Registration Act and the International Transfer of Offenders Act
S-12 (2012) Incorporation by Reference in Regulations Act
S-12 (2004) Personal Watercraft Act
S-12 (2004) An Act to amend the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act (modernization of employment and labour relations)
S-12 (2002) Statutes Repeal Act
S-12 (2001) An Act to amend the Statistics Act and the National Archives of Canada Act (census records)

Message from the SenateGovernment Orders

December 14th, 2010 / 5:05 p.m.


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The Deputy Speaker Andrew Scheer

I have the honour to inform the House that a message has been received from the Senate informing this House that the Senate has passed the following bill to which the concurrence of the House is desired: Bill S-12, A third Act to harmonize federal law with the civil law 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.