moved for leave to introduce Bill C-414, an act to amend the Bank Act (definition of infant).
Madam Speaker, this bill deals with the definition of the term infant. The Bank Act refers to a child as an infant. This amendment provides the definition of the term infant for the purpose of ensuring that it is interpreted consistently with the definition of child proposed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as a person who is less than 18 years of age.
The term infant is used instead of child in this act because of wide use of infant in the common law of contracts to mean a minor.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed.)