Proclamation Giving Notice of the Entry into Force on August 1, 2022 of the Agreement on Social Security Between Canada and the Republic of Albania (SI/2022-34)

Mary May Simon

[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.

François Daigle

Deputy Attorney General

Great Seal of Canada

TO ALL TO WHOM these presents shall come or whom the same may in any way concern,

GREETING:

A Proclamation

Whereas by Order in Council P.C. 2020-997 of December 4, 2020, the Governor in Council declared that, in accordance with article 28 of the Agreement on Social Security between Canada and the Republic of Albania, signed at Ottawa on April 30, 2019, the Agreement, after each party has notified the other by diplomatic note that it has completed the internal legal procedures necessary for the entry into force of the Agreement, enters into force on the first day of the fourth month following the month in which the second diplomatic note is received;

Whereas, in accordance with subsection 42(1) of the Old Age Security Act, the Order in Council was laid before the House of Commons on December 8, 2020 and the Senate on December 9, 2020;

Whereas, before the 20th sitting day after the Order had been laid before both Houses of 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, under subsection 42(2) of that Act, the Order came into force on the 30th sitting day after it had been laid before Parliament, being February 26, 2021;

Whereas the exchange of diplomatic notes, through diplomatic channels, was completed in April 2022;

Whereas the Agreement, after each party has notified the other by diplomatic note that it has completed the internal legal procedures necessary for the entry into force of the Agreement, is to enter into force on the first day of the fourth month following the month in which the second diplomatic note is received, being August 1, 2022;

And whereas by Order in Council P.C. 2022-618 of June 2, 2022, the Governor in Council directed, under subsection 41(2) of the Old Age Security Act, that a proclamation be issued giving notice that the Agreement is in force as of August 1, 2022;

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 annexed Agreement on Social Security between Canada and the Republic of Albania is in force as of August 1, 2022.

Of all which Our loving subjects and all others whom these presents may concern are 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 affixed to it.

WITNESS:

Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Mary May Simon, 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 twenty-third day of June in the year of Our Lord two thousand and twenty-two and in the seventy-first year of Our Reign.

BY COMMAND,