Bill S-5

1st Session, 38th Parliament,

53 Elizabeth II, 2004

senate of canada

BILL S-5

An Act to repeal legislation that has not come into force within ten years of receiving royal assent

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

1. This Act may be cited as the Statutes Repeal Act.

2. In every calendar year, the Minister of Justice shall cause to be laid before the Senate and the House of Commons, on any of the first five days on which that House sits, a report listing every Act of Parliament or provision of an Act of Parliament that is to come into force on a day or days to be fixed by proclamation or order of the Governor in Council and that

(a) was assented to nine years or more before the December 31 immediately preceding the laying of the report; and

(b) had not come into force on or before that December 31.

3. Every Act or provision listed in the annual report that has not come into force on or before December 31 of the year in which the report is laid is repealed on that December 31.

4. The Minister of Justice shall publish each year in the Canada Gazette a list of every Act or provision repealed on the preceding December 31 under this Act.

5. This Act comes into force two years after the day on which it receives royal assent.