1st Session, 37th Parliament,
49-50-51 Elizabeth II, 2001-2002

House of Commons of Canada

BILL C-451

An Act to amend the Canadian Wheat Board Act

R.S., c. C-24

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

1. The long title of the Canadian Wheat Board Act is replaced by the following:

An Act to provide for the constitution and powers of the Western Canadian Wheat Board

2. Section 1 of the Act is replaced by the following:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Western Canadian Wheat Board Act.

3. (1) The definition ``Corporation'' in subsection 2(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

``Corporation' '
« Commission »

``Corporation'' means the Western Canadian Wheat Board continued by section 3;

(2) The definition ``permit book'' in subsection 2(1) of the English version of the Act is replaced by the following:

``permit book''
« carnet de livraison »

``permit book'' means a Western Canadian Wheat Board delivery permit issued pursuant to this Act by the Corporation for a crop year;

4. The heading of Part I of the Act is replaced by the following:

THE WESTERN CANADIAN WHEAT BOARD

5. Subsection 3(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

Corporation continued

3. (1) The Canadian Wheat Board is hereby continued as the Western Canadian Wheat Board .

Powers, duties and functions

6. Wherever, under any Act of Parliament, any instrument made under an Act of Parliament or any contract, lease, licence or other document, a power, duty or function is vested in or exercisable by The Canadian Wheat Board, that power, duty or function is vested in or exercisable by the Western Canadian Wheat Board.

References

7. Every reference to The Canadian Wheat Board in any deed, contract or other document executed by The Canadian Wheat Board in its own name shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to the Western Canadian Wheat Board.

Rights and obligations transferred

8. All rights and property of The Canadian Wheat Board, rights and property held in its name or held in trust for it and all its obligations and liabilities are deemed to be rights, property, obligations and liabilities of the Western Canadian Wheat Board.

Continuation of legal proceedings

9. Any legal proceeding to which The Canadian Wheat Board is party pending in any court immediately before the day on which this section comes into force may be continued by or against the Western Canadian Wheat Board in the same manner and to the same extent as it could have been continued by or against The Canadian Wheat Board.

Consequential amendments

10. Unless the context otherwise requires, ``Canadian Wheat Board'', ``The Canadian Wheat Board'' and ``Canadian Wheat Board Act'' are respectively replaced by ``Western Canadian Wheat Board'', ``the Western Canadian Wheat Board'' and ``Western Canadian Wheat Board Act'' in every Act of Parliament and in every regulation, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Statutory Instruments Act.