Public Notice

The rules of procedure and the fees and costs related to applications for Private Bills are set out in the Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly. Copies of the Standing Orders, and the guide “Procedures for Applying for Private Legislation”, may be obtained from the Legislative Assembly’s Internet site at http://www.ontla.on.ca or from:

Committees Branch
Room 1405, Whitney Block, Queen’s Park
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1A2

Telephone: 416/325-3500 (Collect calls will be accepted.)

Applicants should note that consideration of applications for Private Bills that are received after the first day of September in any calendar year may be postponed until the first regular Session in the next following calendar year.

Claude L. Desrosiers,
Clerk of the Legislative Assembly.
(8699) T.F.N.

Applications to Provincial Parliament

Ajax Pickering Transit Authority

Notice Is Hereby Given that, on behalf of the Ajax Pickering Transit Authority, Town of Ajax and the City of Pickering, application will be made to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario for an Act establishing the Ajax Pickering Transit Authority as a body corporate, and investing in the Ajax Pickering Transit Authority the rights and responsibilities of a corporation, including the right to own real property, and generally govern its affairs. The corporation’s powers and operations shall be governed by the terms and conditions of the merger agreement between the Town of Ajax and the City of Pickering (described below), and the general purpose of the Ajax Pickering Transit Authority shall be to operate a transit system across Ajax and Pickering. The application shall also request the Legislative Assembly to permit the transfer of real property and other assets from Ajax and Pickering to the Ajax Pickering Transit Authority, without any taxes or licence fees being payable.

Currently, the Ajax Pickering Transit Authority is a joint Board of Management incorporating representatives from both municipalities, but the Ajax Pickering Transit Authority does not have the powers of a corporation. This joint Board of Management was established by the Town of Ajax and the City of Pickering on September 4th, 2001 by way of a merger agreement made pursuant to the Municipal Act. Any individual wishing to receive a copy of the merger agreement may contact any of the undersigned to make arrangements to view a copy of the agreement.

The application will be considered by the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills. Any person who has an interest in the application and who wishes to make submissions for or against the application to the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills should notify, in writing, the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, M7A 1A2.

Dated at Ajax and Pickering this 4th day of October, 2001.

Ted Galinis,
General Manager,
Ajax Pickering Transit Authority,

Martin De Rond,
Clerk, Town of Ajax

Bruce Taylor,
Clerk, City of Pickering
(3733) 41 to 44

Groves Memorial Community Hospital

Notice Is Hereby Given that on behalf of the Corporation of the Township of Centre Wellington and the Groves Memorial Community Hospital Commission application will be made to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario for an Act called “An Act Respecting Groves Memorial Community Hospital”, which provides for, amongst other things:

  • The incorporation of the Groves Memorial Community Hospital as a corporation without share capital under the name “Groves Memorial Community Hospital”;
  • The establishment of the board of directors, objects and powers of the Groves Memorial Community Hospital;
  • The transfer of all of the property held absolutely and/or in trust for the Groves Memorial Community Hospital by the Corporation of the Township of Centre Wellington (excluding the “Designated Lands” on which the Hospital is located, as described in the Act) to the Groves Memorial Community Hospital;
  • The revised composition of the board of directors in the event the Corporation of the Township of Centre Wellington is “restructured”, as defined in the Act; and
  • The repeal of certain Acts governing the Groves Memorial Community Hospital.

The application will be considered by the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills. Any person who has an interest in the application and who wishes to make submissions, for or against the application, to the Standing Committee on Regulations and Private Bills should notify, in writing, the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly, Legislative Building, Queen’s Park, Toronto, Ontario, M7A 1A2.

Dated at the City of Toronto, this 17th day of October, 2001.

Cavan B. Acheson,
Solicitor for:
The Corporation of the Township of Centre Wellington
Kearns, Mckinnon
Barristers and Solicitors
265 Bridge Street
Fergus, Ontario
N1M 2W7

Kathy O’brien,
Solicitor for:
Groves Memorial Community Hospital
Commission
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
Barristers and Solicitors
40 King Street West, Suite 2100
Toronto, Ontario
M5H 3C2
(3753) 43 to 46