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Ontario’s Working for Workers Five Act receives royal assent
On October 28, Bill 190, Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 received royal assent.
Global | Publication | April 2018
The increasing divergence between the law in England and that in Wales is easy to overlook but worth having on the radar.
On the planning front, the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 made changes to planning law as it applies to Wales, with further changes afoot.
Two significant pieces of legislation passed by the National Assembly for Wales relate to residential tenancy law and regulation:
More recently, the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Act 2017 introduced a new land transaction tax (LTT) that replaced SDLT in Wales at the beginning of this month. LTT is collected by a new Welsh Revenue Authority (WRA).
LTT has a similar basic structure to SDLT and preserves key features such as a marginal tax rate structure, so that the relevant tax rate only applies to the proportion of the property value that falls within a particular band. However there are numerous differences and not just to the tax rates themselves.
One thing is certain – these divergences are just the start ...
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On October 28, Bill 190, Working for Workers Five Act, 2024 received royal assent.
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The Federal Court of Appeal’s 2023 decision in Canada (Attorney General) v Benjamin Moore & Co [Benjamin Moore FCA] overturned the Federal Court’s decision in Benjamin Moore & Co. v. Canada (Attorney General) [Benjamin Moore FC] that had previously established a new test for patentable subject matter in computer-implemented inventions.
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