Human Resources Legislative Update
Pooled Registered Pension Plan Act Receives Royal Assent
Date: June 28, 2012
The federal government has announced that Bill C-25, An Act relating to pooled registered pension plans and making related amendments to other Acts, will receive Royal Assent today, June 28, 2012. As previously reported, Bill C-25 is new legislation implementing the framework for federally regulated pooled registered pension plans (“PRPPs”).
It is expected that the government will now move forward with finalizing previously released draft supporting Income Tax Act amendments, which will apply to both federally and provincially regulated PRPPs. Provincial enabling legislation is expected to be introduced shortly in some provinces (not including Ontario). For example, in the 2012 budget, Quebec recently introduced its framework for “voluntary retirement savings plans”, its provincial equivalent to the PRPP.
More information about the PRPP legislation is available in our FTR Now of November 23, 2011, “Pooled Registered Pension Framework Introduced.”
