C-47 , 41st Parliament, 2nd session October 16, 2013, to August 2, 2015

An Act to correct certain anomalies, inconsistencies and errors and to deal with other matters of a non-controversial and uncomplicated nature in the Statutes of Canada and to repeal certain provisions that have expired, lapsed or otherwise ceased to have effect
Short title: Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2014
Bill type
House Government Bill
This bill received royal assent on February 26, 2015

Statutes of Canada 2015, c. 3

Progress

End of stage activity
Introduction and first reading, December 8, 2014
Chamber sittings
Sitting date Debates (Hansard)
December 8, 2014
End of stage activity
Second reading and referral to committee, December 8, 2014
Chamber sittings
Sitting date Debates (Hansard)
December 8, 2014
Sitting 157
Agreed to (Journals 157)
2nd reading and referral to committee - WHOL
End of stage activity
Committee report presented, December 8, 2014
Committee of the Whole
Chamber sittings
Sitting date Debates (Hansard)
December 8, 2014
End of stage activity
Concurrence at report stage, December 8, 2014
Chamber sittings
Sitting date Debates (Hansard)
December 8, 2014
End of stage activity
Third reading, December 8, 2014
Chamber sittings
Sitting date Debates (Hansard)
December 8, 2014
Sitting 157
Agreed to (Journals 157)
3rd reading
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First reading, December 8, 2014
Chamber sittings
Sitting date Debates (Hansard)
December 8, 2014
End of stage activities
Second reading, February 3, 2015
Referral to committee, February 3, 2015
Chamber sittings
Sitting date Debates (Hansard)
December 11, 2014
Sitting 107
Major speeches
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February 3, 2015
Sitting 114
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End of stage activity
Committee report presented without amendment, February 19, 2015
With observations
Committee meetings
Meeting date Details
February 18, 2015
Meeting 60
Chamber sittings
Sitting date Debates (Hansard)
February 19, 2015
End of stage activity
Third reading, February 25, 2015
Bill passed by the Senate without amendment
Chamber sittings
Sitting date Debates (Hansard)
February 24, 2015
February 25, 2015

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Major speeches at second reading

Senate

Speech date Speech Senator
December 11, 2014 Sponsor’s speech(Sitting 107) Paul E. McIntyre (Conservative)
February 3, 2015 Response speech(Sitting 114) George Baker (Liberal)

About

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On 8 December 2014, the Minister of Justice introduced Bill C-47, An Act to correct certain anomalies, inconsistencies and errors and to deal with other matters of a non-controversial and uncomplicated nature in the Statutes of Canada and to repeal certain provisions that have expired, lapsed or otherwise ceased to have effect (Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Act, 2014), in the House of Commons and it was given first reading.

Bill C-47 is the 11th in a series of bills introduced under the Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment (MSLA) Program. It amends 80 Acts to correct grammatical, spelling, terminological, typographical and cross-referencing errors, update archaic wording and correct discrepancies between the two language versions. It also updates the names of certain provinces and territories. For example, “Newfoundland and Labrador” replaces “Newfoundland” in several amendments to take into account the 2001 constitutional amendment that changed the name of that province. Other amendments correct the names of courts in certain provinces to reflect changes resulting from the reorganization of the courts in question. Finally, some amendments repeal legislative provisions that no longer have any application, for example provisions relating to veterans of the South African War (1899-1902).

This enactment has been drafted based on the Eighth Report of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights tabled in the House of Commons on November 24, 2014 and the Nineteenth Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs tabled in the Senate on November 27, 2014.

Background and Process

The MSLA Program was established in 1975 to allow for minor non-controversial amendments to be made to a number of federal statutes at once, in one bill, instead of making such amendments incrementally when a particular statute is being opened for amendments of a more substantial nature.

The legislative process for introducing a MSLA bill in Parliament is different from the usual legislative process and involves four main steps: the preparation of a document containing the proposed amendments; the tabling of that document in Parliament and its review by a committee of each House; the preparation of a MSLA bill, based on the committees’ reports, that contains the proposed amendments that were approved by both committees and finally, the introduction of the bill in Parliament.

The proposed amendments must meet all of the following criteria:
(a) not be controversial;
(b) not involve the spending of public funds;
(c) not prejudicially affect the rights of persons;
(d) not create a new offence or subject a new class of persons to an existing offence.

The document containing the proposed amendments is tabled in the Senate and referred to its Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs and in the House of Commons and referred to its Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Each committee reviews the proposed amendments in the document, prepares a report of its findings and presents it to the appropriate House.
Perhaps the most important feature of committee review is that, since a proposed amendment must not be controversial, its approval requires the consensus of the committee. Therefore, if a single member of a committee objects for any reason to a proposed amendment, that proposed amendment will not be included in the MSLA bill.

After committee review, a MSLA bill is drafted based on the reports of the two committees and contains the proposed amendments that were approved by both committees. Once the bill is introduced in Parliament, it is subject to the ordinary enactment procedures; however, the bill usually receives three readings in each House without debate since the amendments contained in the bill have already been considered and approved by committees of both Houses.

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