Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Banking, Trade and Commerce

Issue 10 - Eighth Report of the Committee

Tuesday, April 12, 2005

The Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce has the honour to present its

EIGHTH REPORT

Your Committee, to which was referred Bill C-29, An Act to amend the Patent Act, has, in obedience to the Order of Reference of Monday, March 7, 2005, examined the said Bill and now reports the same with the following amendments:

1. Page 2, new clause 2.1: Add after line 19 the following:

``2.1 The Act is amended by adding, after section 103, Schedules 1 to 4 set out in An Act to amend the Patent Act and the Food and Drugs Act (The Jean Chrétien Pledge to Africa), being chapter 23 of the Statutes of Canada, 2004.''.

2. Page 2, clause 3: Replace lines 20 and 21 with the following:

``3. (1) Sections 1 and 2.1 come into force on the day on whichAn Act to amend the Patent Act and the Food and Drugs Act (The Jean Chrétien Pledge to Africa), being chapter 23 of the Statutes of Canada, 2004, comes into force.

(2) Section 2 comes into force on a day to be fixed by order of''.

Respectfully submitted,

JERAHMIEL S. GRAFSTEIN

Chair