preliminary design [ preliminary engineering | preliminary design study ]

preliminary design [ preliminary design package ]

conceptual-design activities | CDA [Abbr.]

preliminary draft EC budget

preliminary draft

preliminary draft of a Federal Act on Financial Reporting and Auditing

On page 2 of the summary of evidence under A we have the preamble, which is page 1 of the draft legislation.

Before getting into the bill, I would draw your attention to the first page of the overview, which provides a synopsis of the consultations and the briefings that were held before the legislation was drafted, as it was being drafted, and once it was introduced in the house and became a public document.

This spirit of compromise and co-operation has been demonstrated also through the adoption of the following key amendments: one, recognition of paralegals regulated by a law society of a province as authorized immigration representatives; two, respect for Quebec's jurisdiction while maintaining federal authority over the regulation of immigration consultants; three, indication in the act of the minister's authority to revoke the designation of a body through regulations; four, doubling of maximum fines for the offence of providing unauthorized immigration representation or advice, from $50,000 to $100,000 upon conviction of an indictable offence, and for summary offences, ...[+++] from $10,000 to $20,000; and five, increasing the length of time to institute a proceeding by way of a summary conviction to 10 years, as opposed to the initially proposed 5 years — investigators would thus be provided ample time to investigate properly and fully various offences committed under the act and lay charges before the time period lapses.

As explained in the Summary to the draft bill, the purpose of the proposed amendments is to extend the payable period for retirement pensions and survivor's pensions.