Ontario. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Company Law

• Select Committee on Company Law

Select Committees are ad-hoc committees of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario with specific terms of reference to investigate and report on a specific issue. This select committee was regularly established over a period of years from 1965 to 1981.

The committee was first established June 22, 1965, was re-appointed July 8, 1966, and was chaired by Allan F. Lawrence. It issued an interim report on May 12, 1967, which considered the issues of incorporation, operation, management and dissolution of corporations.

On July 23, 1968 the committee was re- formed with Gordon R. Carton as its chairman. The interim report was presented to the House on December 15, 1969, and examined the issues surrounding credit unions. Recommendations of the committee to date resulted in the passage of the Corporations Act (Bill 75) and the Business Corporation Act, 1970 (Bill 61).

The committee was re-established December 17. 1971 with Arthur K. Meen as chair. Three reports were issued, Report on Cooperatives, June 7, 1971; the Report on Mergers and Amalgamations, November 14, 1973 and the Report on Loan and Trust Corporations, June 23, 1975. The reports led to the passage of a number of revisions to the pertinent acts.

On May 25, 1976 the committee was re- established with Vernon M. Singer as chair. The committee issued a First Report on Auto Insurance in 1977.

The committee was re-established for the last time on July 12, 1977, although it was reconstituted with some changes to its membership on July 5, 1978. The committee issued three reports between 1978 and 1980, on the automobile insurance industry, the general insurance industry, and the life insurance industry.

The Select Committee on Company Law examined all aspects of company law in Ontario, including such issues such as cooperatives, mergers, trusts, automobile insurance companies, and general insurance.

RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

Sage, Richard; Weir, Aileen. Select Committees of the Assemblies of the Provinces of Upper Canada, Canada and Ontario, 1792-1991: A Checklist of Reports. Toronto: Ontario Legislative Library, 1992.

The above source treats these as separate select committees, but here they are treated as a single corporate body.

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