moved for leave to introduce Bill C-424, an act to amend the Government Employees Compensation Act (definition of infant).
Madam Speaker, this bill amends the Government Employees Compensation Act (definition of infant). It amends section 2 of the Government Employees Compensation Act and all the following sections in the alphabetical order by adding the definition of "infant" as being any person who is less than eighteen years of age.
Furthermore, it ensures that the term "infant" will always be interpreted as designating any person who is less than eighteen years of age, pursuant to the definition proposed in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed.)