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Bill C-40

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SUMMARY

The purpose of this enactment is to make minor amendments of a non-controversial nature to a number of Acts, without having to wait for those Acts to be opened up for amendments of a more substantial nature. There have been seven previous Miscellaneous Statute Law Amendment Acts, the first having been passed in 1977.

The criteria applied in determining whether a suggested amendment is included in this enactment are that the amendment must not

    (a) be controversial;

    (b) involve the spending of public funds;

    (c) prejudicially affect the rights of persons; or

    (d) create a new offence or subject a new class of persons to an existing offence.