ADRIENNE CLARKSON[L.S.]
Canada
Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories QUEEN, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.
To All to Whom these Presents shall come or whom the same may in any way concern,
Greeting:
MORRIS ROSENBERG Deputy Attorney General
A Proclamation
Whereas, by Order in Council P.C. 2002-1259 of July 17, 2002, the Governor in Council declared that, in accordance with Article XXIX of the Agreement on Social Security between Canada and the Republic of Hungary, signed on March 4, 2002, the Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the fourth month following the final day of the month in which the Contracting Parties shall have exchanged written notices through the diplomatic channel confirming that their respective legal requirements for the entry into force of the Agreement have been completed;
Whereas that Order in Council was laid before Parliament on October 10, 2002;
Whereas, before the twentieth sitting day after the Order had been laid before Parliament, no motion for the consideration of either House to the effect that the Order be revoked was filed with the Speaker of the appropriate House;
Whereas, pursuant to subsection 42(2) of the Old Age Security Act, the Order came into force on the thirtieth sitting day after it had been laid before Parliament, being December 5, 2002;
Whereas the exchange of the instruments of ratification was completed on June 3, 2003;
Whereas the Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the fourth month following the final day of the month in which the contracting Parties exchanged written notices, being October 1, 2003;
And whereas, by Order in Council P.C. 2003-1227 of August 13, 2003, the Governor in Council directed that a proclamation do issue giving notice that the Agreement on Social Security between Canada and the Republic of Hungary shall enter into force on October 1, 2003;
Now Know You that We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada, do by this Our Proclamation give notice that the Agreement on Social Security between Canada and the Republic of Hungary, signed on March 4, 2002, a copy of which is annexed hereto, shall enter into force on October 1, 2003.
Of All Which Our Loving Subjects and all others whom these Presents may concern are hereby required to take notice and to govern themselves accordingly.
In Testimony Whereof, We have caused this Our Proclamation to be published and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto affixed. Witness: Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Adrienne Clarkson, Chancellor and Principal Companion of Our Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Military Merit, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Merit of the Police Forces, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.
At Our Government house, in Our City of Ottawa, this sixteenth day of September in the year of Our Lord two thousand and three and in the fifty-second year of Our Reign.
By Command,
JEAN-CLAUDE VILLIARD Deputy Registrar General of Canada