Summary#
The Honey Harbour Community Church Inc. Act, 2025 is a special Ontario law that revives an existing corporation dissolved in 1994. Its stated purpose is to grant the revival application; the Act does not set out a broader policy goal. The supplied material says it received Royal Assent and came into force on that day, but does not give the date.
- Honey Harbour Community Church Inc. is restored to its legal position as of the date it was dissolved, as if it had not been dissolved.
- The restoration includes the corporation’s property, rights, privileges and franchises, as well as its liabilities, contracts, disabilities and debts.
- The revival is subject to any rights another person acquired after the corporation’s dissolution.
What it means for you#
- The corporation: It is legally revived. The Act does not set out an application or review process for the corporation to complete.
- People or organizations with rights acquired after the 1994 dissolution: Those rights are expressly protected from the revival.
- Others: The Act does not directly create a new church, public service, benefit, tax, fee or penalty.
Money#
No cost information is provided; no publicly available information on the cost of the revival appears in the supplied material.
- The Act does not specify spending, staffing, fees or compensation.
What is unclear#
- The material does not give the Royal Assent date.
- It does not identify the corporation’s property, contracts, debts or other liabilities.
- It does not explain how the revival affects particular activities carried out in the corporation’s name while it was dissolved.
- The text does not explain how any dispute about rights acquired after dissolution would be resolved.
Case for#
- A possible argument for the Act is that it restores the legal status of a corporation whose non-compliance is described in the preamble as inadvertent.
- Restoring the corporation’s legal position, including its property and obligations, may provide continuity rather than leaving the dissolution in place.
- The Act protects rights that other people acquired after the dissolution.
Case against#
- The revival restores the corporation’s legal position as if it had not been dissolved, but the Act does not identify the property, contracts or debts affected. That may leave practical questions for the corporation and others.
- The protection for rights acquired after dissolution is stated, but the Act does not explain how competing claims would be handled.
- The supplied material says activities continued in the corporation’s name during dissolution, but the Act does not explain what legal effect, if any, those activities have.