Order in Council 1533/2026

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, by and with the advice and concurrence of the Executive Council of Ontario, orders that:

Whereas a special fund to receive money and distribute scholarships to provide for the costs of tuition for post secondary education to the surviving spouses and children of public safety officers who died in the line of duty was established as an account in the Consolidated Revenue Fund by Order in Council 1453/97, dated June 25, 1997, and was amended by Order in Council 1284/2002, dated June 19, 2002, so that the fund could be known as the Constable Joe MacDonald Public Safety Officers’ Survivors Scholarship Fund (the “Fund”);

And whereas the Fund was further amended by Order in Council 1582/2003, dated August 6, 2003, to permit the funding of certain living expenses in addition to tuition and required textbooks as set out in Order in Council 1453/97, and to restrict the funding of a scholarship awarded from the Fund to a maximum period of five years;

And whereas the Constable Joe MacDonald Public Safety Officers’ Survivors Scholarship Fund Act, 2026 continues the Fund established by Order in Council 1453/97, as amended by Orders in Council 1284/2002 and 1582/2003, under a statutory framework and comes into force on a day to be named by order of the Lieutenant Governor in Council;

Now therefore Order in Council 1453/97, as amended by Orders in Council 1284/2002 and 1582/2003, is hereby revoked effective on the day section 2 of the Constable Joe MacDonald Public Safety Officers’ Survivors Scholarship Fund Act, 2026 comes into force.