Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs
Issue 5 - Third Report of the Committee
Thursday, April 26, 2001
The Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has the honour to present its
THIRD REPORT
Your Committee, to which was referred Bill S-25, An Act to amend the Act of incorporation of the Conference of Mennonites in Canada, has, in obedience to the Order of Reference of April 4, 2001, examined the said Bill and now reports the same with the following amendment:Pages 1 and 2, clause 2:
(a) on page 1, replace lines 27 to 29 with the following:
"2. Sections 1 to 5 of the Act are replaced by the following:
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- 1. (1) The Corporation created by chapter 91 of the Statutes of Canada, 1947, is continued as a body corporate under the name "Mennonite Church Canada".
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- (2) The Corporation consists of those congregations of Mennonites and conferences of Mennonites that are corporate members of the Corporation on the coming into force of this Act and such other congregations of Mennonites, conferences of Mennonites or other entities as may become corporate members thereof.
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- 2. (1) The head office of the Corporation"; and
(b) on page 2, replace line 6 with the following:
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- "3. (1) Subject to this Act, the Corpor-".
LORNA MILNE
Chair