Bill C-42
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RECOMMENDATION |
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His Excellency the Governor General recommends to the House of
Commons the appropriation of public revenue under the circumstances,
in the manner and for the purposes set out in a measure entitled ``An Act
to amend the Judges Act and to make consequential amendments to
another Act''.
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SUMMARY |
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The enactment transfers from the Governor in Council to chief
justices the authority to grant leaves of absence to their judges for
periods of up to six months.
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The enactment authorizes Madam Justice Louise Arbour of the
Ontario Court of Appeal to take a leave from her judicial duties to serve
as Prosecutor of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of
Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International
Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former
Yugoslavia and of the International Tribunal for Rwanda.
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The enactment also makes other amendments that are primarily of
a technical nature.
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