Summary#
The Andrew Zawadowski Medicine Professional Corporation Act, 2025 is a special Ontario Act that revives one corporation; it does not amend the Business Corporations Act. Its stated goal is to let the corporation carry on business in its name. The supplied material identifies the Act as having Royal Assent; it says the Act takes effect on that day.
- Andrew Zawadowski Medicine Professional Corporation is restored to its legal position as of its December 19, 2024 dissolution, as if it had not been dissolved.
- The restoration includes its property, rights, privileges and franchises, but is subject to rights acquired by others after the dissolution.
- The corporation is also restored subject to its liabilities, contracts, disabilities and debts.
What it means for you#
- The corporation: It is legally revived. The Act does not say that it has resumed operating or set out any steps for doing so.
- People or organizations with rights acquired after the dissolution: Those rights are expressly preserved, though the Act does not explain how disputes about them would be resolved.
- Patients and the public: The Act does not itself set out changes to medical services, patient rights or professional licensing.
Money#
No cost information is in the available material.
- The Act states no public spending, fee, tax or fine.
- It gives no estimate of costs to the corporation or others.
What is unclear#
- The Act does not list the corporation’s property, contracts, debts or other liabilities.
- It does not explain what counts as a right acquired after dissolution or provide a process for resolving disputes about such rights.
- It does not say whether the corporation has resumed business or describe any separate requirements for doing so.
- No publicly available information is supplied about the practical or financial effects of the revival.
Case for#
- The bill appears intended to let the applicant carry on business in the corporation’s name, as the preamble says he wants to do.
- Restoring the corporation’s legal position may preserve continuity for its property, rights and contracts.
- The Act preserves rights acquired by others after dissolution and keeps the corporation subject to its debts and other liabilities.
Case against#
- The Act restores the corporation as if it had not been dissolved, which could affect property or contractual matters; the text does not explain how any resulting disputes would be handled.
- The Act does not set out the corporation’s liabilities or the wider practical effects of the revival, making those effects hard to assess from the supplied material.