1. The purpose of this Act is to establish measures to enable the effective and rapid reconstitution of the notarial records destroyed in the 6 July 2013 railway disaster in Ville de Lac-Mégantic.
For that purpose, the Act defines the role of the notaries, holders or legal depositaries of such destroyed records and introduces, among other measures, a special procedure to simplify the replacement of notarial deeds en minute the originals of which were preserved in those records.