Nova ScotiaBill 146Royal Assent
Bill 146: Banook Canoe Club, Limited, An Act to Incorporate (amended)
Sponsor: Timothy HalmanIntroduced September 25, 2025Checked September 4, 2026
Read the official textOfficial version — Nova Scotia House of Assembly
What this bill does
This bill amends the incorporating legislation of Banook Canoe Club, Limited in Nova Scotia to expand and simplify the club's borrowing powers, removing prior restrictions on how the corporation may borrow, raise, or secure money.
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Business impact
This bill affects only one specific organization: Banook Canoe Club, Limited, a historic recreational paddling club based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The club's day-to-day activities involve managing a waterfront facility, organizing canoe and kayak programs, and maintaining club infrastructure. The amendment gives the club's board greater flexibility in how they finance capital projects or operations — for example, taking out loans or securing financing without being constrained by the specific methods listed in the original 1915 legislation. As a private members' club rather than a commercial business, this change is narrow in scope and has no broader industry-wide implications.
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Where this bill is
First ReadingSeptember 25, 2025
Second ReadingSeptember 29, 2025
Third ReadingOctober 1, 2025
Royal AssentOctober 3, 2025
Now law — awaiting coming into force
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