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The Goderich Signal-Star, 1977-12-01, Page 301 PAGE 6A—GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1977 akfltdde11reports from Queen's Park The Family Law Reform legislation is progressing through the Legislature, and Royal Assent has been given to a number of bills. Ontario has abolished the concept of the illegitimate child for all purposes of law, and has set up a legal framework to help establish parentage even when the parents have never been married to each other. This will go into effect March 31st, 1978. Any discrimination on the basis of illegitimacy becomes illegal, and the legislation will have special significance in court cases involving inheritance claims, since illegitimate children will have the same standing as all other •children when either a father or mother (or both) die without"leaving a will. Before the new law, illegitimate children had no claim before the courts. Another Bill which has received Royal Assent is that raising the minimum legal age for marriage to 16 from 14. Parental consent will still be required for 16 -year --olds to marry. Another section of the legislation legalized last- minute informal wills. A holograph will of this kind must be entirely in the handwriting of the deceased, followed by his or her signature. A printed form signed without a witness does not constitute 0 holograph will. The estates law also increases the preferential share of a spouse if either a husband or wife dies without a will to $75.000 from $50,000 and provides a formula for determining a preferential share in 'cases of partial in- testacy. that is, when the will does not refer to all property nw,vnedti-try the deceased. The Provincial government will soon announce plans to close down some of its old county jailsaand some newer correctional centres to save money, according to the Minister of Correctional Services, Mr. Frank Drea. Factors which will be taken into !consideration are the conditions of the jail, its distance from the nearest comparable facility and what kinds of prisoners are being held. The government operates 33 county jails, seven detention centres., and 15 correctional centres. At present about 4,300 people are employed in Ontario's correctional system. and the Minister has, he says, given a commitment that no jobs will be lust as a result of these budget cuts.. The Government's proposed five -cent tax on soft- drink cans has been scrap- ped, firmly rejected by Opposition Parties. The Minister, Mr. George Kerr, has stated that he will not try to introduce a hill to impose it this session and is con- sidering whether to try again in the next session with a measure= acceptable to the Liberals - a deposit on cans instead of a tax. Liberal Leader Stuart Smith has called upon the Government to spend more money to help stem 'the growing incidence of child abuse. He informed the Minister of Community and Social Services, The Honourable Keith Norton, in the Legislature that officials expect a 40 percent increase in child abuse cases this year, and money allotted to Children's Aid Societies is "rather low''. The Minister said the government's package of about 100 proposed legislative amen- dments concerning child care should be made public quite soon. Child abuse task forces have, he said, already been establish -ed in many com- munities and are "already having a significant impact on the recognition and detection of child abuse''. Ontario Municipal Flec- tions will henceforth he held on the second Monday in November. Previously voting day has been the first Monday in December. A Select Committee of the Legislature has been ap- pointed to examine the entire scope of Ontario's current and future operations. The Hydro Select Com- mittee consists of six Con- servative Members, four Liberals and four NDP Members with Mr. Donald C. MacDonald, NDP for York South as Chairman. The terms of reference for the committee are broad enough to allow committee members to question everything from the current construction of heavy water plants in Bruce County to Ontario's com- mitment to nuclear power. Before the appointment of the committee the NIP. caucus had been arguing that only brief terms of reference were required but the Liberals kept insisting that the terms of reference in- clude the cost of construction of two heavy water plants being built by Hydro at the Bruce County Nuclear Power Development, and they were successful. Eight clauses of the terms of reference refer specifically to the Bruce nuclear project. The terms of reference allow the committee to inquire into the cost of con- struction of the two heavy water plants at the Bruce site, but its major terms allow it to discuss Hydro. power rate increases and to "examine Ontario's nuclear_ commitment". 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