Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Legal and Constitutional Affairs

Issue 26 - Twenty-second Report of the Committee

Thursday, February 19, 2015

The Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs has the honour to present its

TWENTY-SECOND REPORT

Your committee, to which was referred Bill C-47, An Act to correct certain anomalies, inconsistencies and errors and to deal with other matters of a non-controversial and uncomplicated nature in the Statutes of Canada and to repeal certain provisions that have expired, lapsed or otherwise ceased to have effect, has, in obedience to the order of reference of Tuesday, February 3, 2015, examined the said bill and now reports the same without amendment.

Your committee has also made certain observations, which are appended to this report.

Respectfully submitted,

BOB RUNCIMAN

Chair

OBSERVATIONS to the

Twenty-second Report of the
Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (Bill C-47)

The committee notes that in its nineteenth report on the Proposals for a Miscellaneous Statute Amendment Act, 2014, it states that the proposal "contains 177 clauses that propose to amend 69 federal statutes". As a point of clarification, the committee notes that Part 2 (clause 174) includes a proposed change in terminology that would amend an additional 11 federal statutes. The committee confirms that Bill C-47 reflects all of these proposed changes.