Bill C-518 (Historical)

Protecting Taxpayers and Revoking Pensions of Convicted Politicians Act

An Act to amend the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act (withdrawal allowance)

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

John Williamson  Conservative

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

Status

Report stage (Senate), as of June 25, 2015
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act to provide for the payment of a withdrawal allowance in lieu of a retiring allowance or compensation allowance, as the case may be, when a member of the Senate or House of Commons who ceases or has ceased to be a member has been convicted of an offence under certain provisions of the Criminal Code arising out of conduct that in whole or in part occurred while the person was a member.

Similar bills

C-518 (41st Parliament, 1st session) Protecting Taxpayers and Revoking Pensions of Convicted Politicians Act

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from 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-518s:

C-518 (2010) An Act to amend the Fisheries Act (closed containment aquaculture)
C-518 (2008) An Act to amend the Employment Insurance Act (compassionate care benefits for dependent children)
C-518 (2004) An Act to amend the Canada Business Corporations Act (annual financial statements)

Votes

Feb. 4, 2015 Passed That the Bill be now read a third time and do pass.
Feb. 4, 2015 Passed That Bill C-518, An Act to amend the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act (withdrawal allowance), as amended, be concurred in at report stage [with a further amendment/with further amendments].
Feb. 4, 2015 Failed “ceases or has ceased to be a member and who, on or after the day on which this subsection comes into force, is either convicted of an offence under the Criminal Code mentioned in subsection (4) or sentenced to a term of imprisonment of five years or more for an offence under any other Act of Parliament, if the offence arose out of conduct that in whole or in part occurred while the person was a member, a”