Draft Legislative Proposals Regarding Time Limits and Other Periods in Circumstances Due to COVID-19 and Explanatory Notes

These draft legislative proposals were enacted as part of Bill C-20: An Act respecting further COVID-19 measures, which received royal assent on July 27, 2020. For more information on the Time Limits and Other Periods Act (COVID-19), please consult Justice Canada’s COVID-19 web portal on legislative and other measures taken by the Government of Canada to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Published by
The Honourable David Lametti
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada

May 2020


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