BILL NO. 130
(as introduced)
4th Session, 61st General Assembly
Nova Scotia
61 Elizabeth II, 2012
Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches Act
Vicki Conrad
Queens
First Reading: November 13, 2012
Second Reading: November 15, 2012
Third Reading: December 4, 2012 (LINK TO BILL AS PASSED)
An Act Respecting the Convention
of Atlantic Baptist Churches
WHEREAS the United Baptist Convention of the Maritime Provinces, which was created in 1905-1906, became the United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces in 1963, and the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches in 2001;
AND WHEREAS the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches was an unincorporated body (the "Unincorporated Convention");
AND WHEREAS the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches was incorporated, by letters patent dated December 11, 2010, pursuant to Part II of the Canada Corporations Act (the "Incorporated Convention");
AND WHEREAS by Resolution dated August 18, 2011, the members of the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches transferred all of the Unincorporated Convention's real and personal property, including its business and operations together with all of its rights and obligations, to the Incorporated Convention;
AND WHEREAS by Resolution dated August 18, 2011, the members of the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches authorized the Incorporated Convention on its own behalf and on behalf of the Unincorporated Convention to seek any necessary statutory amendments in either New Brunswick or Nova Scotia to confirm that any reference in any statute in either province to the "Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches" should be interpreted as a reference to the Incorporated Convention and further that any reference in any document to the "Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches" should be deemed to be and construed as a reference to the Incorporated Convention;
AND WHEREAS by Resolution dated August 18, 2011, the Incorporated Convention accepted all of the assets and liabilities of the Unincorporated Convention;
THEREFORE be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 This Act may be cited as the Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches Act.
2 Upon the coming into force of this Act, any reference in any Act, other than this Act, or in any regulation, rule, order or by-law or in any public or private document of any type whatsoever to the "Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches" or the members of the "Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches", under that name or any other name that was previously used, authorized or referenced in any statute, shall, as regards any subsequent transaction, matter or thing, be held and construed to be a reference to the Incorporated Convention.
3 All rights, duties, obligations and liabilities of the Unincorporated Convention are vested in and binding upon the Incorporated Convention.
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