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S-3 An Act to amend the Weights and Measures Act, the Electricity and Gas Inspection Act, the Weights and Measures Regulations and the Electricity and Gas Inspection Regulations

Updates inspection rules for commercial measuring devices and broadens the legal definition of electricity and gas meters.

What Bill S-3 would do

The bill would update inspection rules and inspector powers for commercial measuring devices and electricity and gas meters. It would broaden the definition of "meter", clarify requirements to put devices into service, and grant the Minister of Industry powers regarding device sampling and corrective measures. The published material gives no further detail.

Official text

Official summary

This enactment amends the Weights and Measures Act to, among other things, clarify existing powers, duties and functions of the Minister of Industry and inspectors, provide the Minister with certain powers, including with respect to sampling when devices are examined and with respect to corrective and preventive measures, and provide inspectors with certain powers. It also amends the Electricity and Gas Inspection Act to, among other things, broaden the definition of “meter”, provide the president with the authority to grant certain exemptions, clarify the steps required to put a device into service, clarify existing powers, duties and functions of the Minister and inspectors, provide the Minister with certain powers, including with respect to sampling when meters are examined and with respect to corrective and preventive measures, and provide inspectors with certain powers.

It also repeals certain provisions in the Weights and Measures Regulations and the Electricity and Gas Inspection Regulations . Finally, it includes transitional provisions. Available on the Senate of Canada website at the following address: www.sencanada.ca/en 1st Session, 45th Parliament, 3 - 4 Charles III, 2025 SENATE OF CANADA BILL S-3 An Act to amend the Weights and Measures Act, the Electricity and Gas Inspection Act, the Weights and Measures Regulations and the Electricity and Gas Inspection Regulations His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: R.‍S.‍, c. W-6

The government's summary, printed at the front of the bill as introduced.

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Government bill
Sponsor
Pierre Moreau, Senator
Introduced
in the Senate
Last activity

Where it stands

  1. ProposedOct 28, 2025
  2. Being debatedsince Mar 12 Exact stageAt second reading in the House of Commons · since March 12, 2026MPs or senators are debating it in the chamber where it started.
  3. Almost law
  4. Law

Passed the Senate; now in the House, debate there under way

  1. First reading in the Senate done

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  2. Second reading in the Senate done

    Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy

    Before the Senate on 3 sitting days, to

  3. Committee in the Senate done

    Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  4. Third reading in the Senate done

    Before the Senate on 1 sitting day,

  5. First reading in the House done

    Before the House on 1 sitting day,

  6. Second reading in the House now

    Before the House on 2 sitting days, to · 2 debates here

  7. Committee in the House not yet

  8. Report stage in the House not yet

  9. Third reading in the House not yet

  10. Royal assent not yet

Exact procedural stages

Officially: At second reading in the House of Commons · since March 12, 2026.

  1. Senate
  2. House
  3. Royal assent

Debates in the House 2

Members who spoke: Conservative 10 Bloc Québécois 5 Liberal 4 Green 1

Second reading 2

  1. Weights and Measures Act

    · Sitting 113 · 28 statements · 23 graded

    8 members spoke

  2. Weights and Measures Act

    · Sitting 154 · 32 statements · 27 graded

    14 members spoke

Also raised in 2

Question Period, members' statements and other debates where the bill came up.

Show 2

  1. Business of the House

    · Oral Questions · named 1 time

  2. Business of the House

    · Oral Questions · named 1 time

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