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S-5
First Session, Thirty-eighth 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
first reading, October 7, 2004
THE HONOURABLE SENATOR BANKS

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SUMMARY
This enactment provides that any Act or provision of an Act that is to come into force on a date to be fixed by proclamation or order of the Governor in Council must be included in an annual report laid before both Houses of Parliament if it does not come into force by the December 31 that is nine years after royal assent, and that the Act or provision is repealed if it does not come into force by the following December 31.
It applies to all Acts — whether introduced in either House as Government bills, private members’ public bills or private bills — that provide for a coming into force date to be set by the Governor in Council.
This enactment does not apply to Acts or provisions that are to come into force on assent or on a fixed date provided by the Act.

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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:
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Statutes Repeal Act.
Annual report of legislation not in force
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.
Repeal on following 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in the annual report that has not come into force on or before December 31 of the year in which the report is laid is repealed on that December 31.
Publication in Canada Gazette
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 The Minister of Justice shall publish each year in the Canada Gazette a list of every Act or provision repealed on the preceding December 31 under this Act.
Coming into force
5. This Act comes into force two years after the day on which it receives royal assent.
Published under authority of the Senate of Canada



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