Central Registry of Divorce Proceedings Regulations (SOR/86-600)

6. On receipt of a notification pursuant to subsection 5(2) or (3), a registrar of a court shall

• (a) place the notification with the relevant application for divorce; and

• (b) where two divorce proceedings are pending between the spouses referred to in the notification, inform the spouse who filed the application for divorce in the court of the other application.

7. Within seven days after the discontinuance of a divorce proceeding or the taking effect of the dismissal or judgment in respect of a divorce proceeding, the appropriate registrar shall complete Part 2 of the registration form and send it to the central registry by mail or electronic means.

8. On receipt of Part 2 of a registration form sent pursuant to section 7, an officer of the central registry shall enter the information contained in the registration form into the record that is maintained under subsection 3(2).

9. For the sole purpose of record keeping by the central registry, a divorce proceeding shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to be discontinued, if the central registry does not receive Part 2 of the registration form or any request for renewal of the notification, by the end of the six-year period referred to in subsection 5(5) or (7).