Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, the purpose of this amendment is to repeal section 7 of the Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act which allows the Commissioner to make rules respecting the practice and procedure of the Supreme Court in proceedings under that act, and states that until the Commissioner does so the rules made under Alberta's Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act for its courts must be followed. The Commissioner has not made rules under this section.

The Supreme Court currently relies on rules made by it in 1979, which were made under the authority of the Judicature Act and which are in substance the same as the rules made under Alberta's Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments Act. Therefore, section 7 of the act is not required so we are seeking to repeal that section.