BILL NO. 30
(as passed)
1st Session, 65th General Assembly
Nova Scotia
3 Charles III, 2025
Private Bill
Windsor Curling Club Continuation Act
CHAPTER 12 OF THE ACTS OF 2025
Melissa Sheehy-Richard
Hants West
First Reading: February 21, 2025 (LINK TO BILL AS INTRODUCED)
Second Reading: March 4, 2025
Third Reading: March 25, 2025
Royal Assent: March 26, 2025
An Act to Authorize
the Windsor Curling Club
to Convert to a Society under the Societies Act
WHEREAS the Windsor Curling Club was incorporated as a company under the Companies Act;
AND WHEREAS the Windsor Curling Club desires to be continued as a society under the Societies Act;
THEREFORE be it enacted by the Governor and Assembly as follows:
1 This Act may be cited as the Windsor Curling Club Continuation Act.
"Company" means Windsor Curling Club Limited, a company incorporated under the Companies Act on August 5, 1946;
"Registrar" means the Registrar under the Societies Act;
"Society" means the Windsor Curling Club created under this Act.
3 (1) The directors of the Company are authorized to submit to the Registrar for approval a memorandum of association in the form set out in Schedule A of the Societies Act, together with bylaws in accordance with that Act.
(2) Upon the filing with the Registrar of the memorandum of association and bylaws and otherwise satisfying the Registrar of compliance with the Societies Act, the Company is converted into a society incorporated under and governed by that Act, under the name "Windsor Curling Club".
4 (1) Each shareholder of the Company who is living at the time of the conversion of the Company into a society is a member of the Society.
(2) For greater certainty, each member of the Society has one vote at any general meeting of the Society notwithstanding the number of shares owned in the Company.
(3) Upon the conversion of the Company into the Society, the outstanding and issued shares of the Company
(a) are thereby cancelled and are not hereafter assignable or transferable;
(b) do not have any pecuniary value;
(c) do not entitle the holder to receive dividends; and
(d) do not entitle the holder to any share of the assets of the Society on dissolution of the Society.
5 Upon the continuation of the Company as the Society,
(a) the directors and officers of the Company on the coming into force of this Act continue as the directors and officers of the Society until the first annual general meeting of the Society; and
(b) all assets and liabilities of the Company continue as assets and liabilities of the Society.
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