ROMÉO LEBLANC
[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:
GEORGE THOMSON Deputy Attorney General
A Proclamation
Whereas, by Order in Council P.C. 1996-1561 of October 8, 1996, the Governor in Council declared that, in accordance with Article 8 of the Second Supplementary Agreement amending the Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America with respect to Social Security, signed on May 28, 1996, the Second Supplementary Agreement shall enter into force on the first day of the fourth month following the month in which each Party shall have received written notification from the other Party that it has completed the legal procedures required for the entry into force of that Agreement;
Whereas the Order was laid before Parliament on November 25, 1996;
Whereas, before the twentieth sitting day after the Order was 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 was laid before Parliament, being March 3, 1997;
Whereas instruments of ratification were exchanged on June 25, 1997;
Whereas the Second Supplementary Agreement will enter into force on the first day of the fourth month following the month in which the instruments of ratification were exchanged, being October 1, 1997;
And whereas, by Order in Council P.C. 1997-1169 of August 28, 1997, the Governor in Council directed that a proclamation do issue giving notice that the Second Supplementary Agreement amending the Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America with respect to Social Security is in force as of October 1, 1997;
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 Second Supplementary Agreement amending the Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America with respect to Social Security, signed on May 28, 1996, a copy of which is annexed hereto, is in force as of October 1, 1997.
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 these Our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto affixed. Witness: Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Roméo A LeBlanc, a Member of Our Privy Council for Canada, Chancellor and Principal Companion of Our Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Military Merit, 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 one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven and in the forty-sixth year of Our Reign.
By Command, KEVIN G. LYNCH Deputy Registrar General of Canada