﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Regulation gazette-part="II" regulation-type="SOR" xml:lang="en" startdate="20060322"><Identification Code="id=&quot;&quot;"><LimsAuthority><Alpha>I-11.8</Alpha><AuthorityTitle>Insurance Companies Act</AuthorityTitle></LimsAuthority><InstrumentNumber>SOR/2003-244</InstrumentNumber><RegistrationDate><Date><YYYY>2003</YYYY><MM>6</MM><DD>18</DD></Date></RegistrationDate><ConsolidationDate><Date><YYYY>2013</YYYY><MM>01</MM><DD>28</DD></Date></ConsolidationDate><LastModifiedDate><Date><YYYY>2008</YYYY><MM>10</MM><DD>31</DD></Date></LastModifiedDate><EnablingAuthority Code="id=&quot;&quot;,ea=&quot;&quot;"><XRefExternal reference-type="act">INSURANCE COMPANIES ACT</XRefExternal></EnablingAuthority><LongTitle Code="id=&quot;&quot;,lt=&quot;&quot;">Exemption from Approval for Certain Investments in Intragroup Service Entities (Life Companies and Insurance Holding Companies) Regulations</LongTitle><RegulationMakerOrder><RegulationMaker>P.C.</RegulationMaker><OrderNumber>2003-995 </OrderNumber><Date><YYYY> 2003</YYYY><MM>6</MM><DD>18</DD></Date></RegulationMakerOrder></Identification><Order Code="od=&quot;&quot;"><Provision format-ref="indent-1-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no" Code="od=&quot;&quot;,pv=&quot;&quot;,nb=&quot;1&quot;"><Text>Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance, pursuant to paragraphs 501(<Emphasis style="italic">b</Emphasis>)<FootnoteRef idref="fn_SOR-2003-244_e_hq_5797">a</FootnoteRef> and 977(<Emphasis style="italic">b</Emphasis>)<FootnoteRef idref="fn_SOR-2003-244_e_hq_5798">b</FootnoteRef> and section 1021<FootnoteRef idref="fn_SOR-2003-244_e_hq_5798">b</FootnoteRef> of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="I-11.8">Insurance Companies Act</XRefExternal><FootnoteRef idref="fn_SOR-2003-244_e_hq_5799">c</FootnoteRef>, hereby makes the annexed <XRefExternal reference-type="regulation" link="SOR-2003-244">Exemption from Approval for Certain Investments in Intragroup Service Entities (Life Companies and Insurance Holding Companies) Regulations</XRefExternal>.</Text><Footnote id="fn_SOR-2003-244_e_hq_5797" placement="page" status="official"><Label>a</Label><Text>S.C. 2001, c. 9, s. 426</Text></Footnote><Footnote id="fn_SOR-2003-244_e_hq_5798" placement="page" status="official"><Label>b</Label><Text>S.C. 2001, c. 9, s. 465</Text></Footnote><Footnote id="fn_SOR-2003-244_e_hq_5799" placement="page" status="official"><Label>c</Label><Text>S.C. 1991, c. 47</Text></Footnote></Provision></Order><Body><Section Code="se=&quot;1&quot;"><MarginalNote Code="se=&quot;1&quot;,m1=&quot;&quot;">Exemption — life companies</MarginalNote><Label>1.</Label><Text>Subsections 495(7) and (8) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="I-11.8">Insurance Companies Act</XRefExternal> do not apply to a life company’s acquisition of control of, or a life company’s acquisition or increase of a substantial investment in, an entity referred to in paragraph 495(6)(<Emphasis style="italic">b</Emphasis>) of that Act if the financial intermediary activities of the entity that expose the entity to material market or credit risk are limited to providing services exclusively to the life company or members of the life company’s group.</Text></Section><Section Code="se=&quot;2&quot;"><MarginalNote Code="se=&quot;2&quot;,m1=&quot;&quot;">Exemption — insurance holding companies</MarginalNote><Label>2.</Label><Text>Subsections 971(5) and (6) of the <XRefExternal reference-type="act" link="I-11.8">Insurance Companies Act</XRefExternal> do not apply to an insurance holding company’s acquisition of control of, or an insurance holding company’s acquisition or increase of a substantial investment in, an entity referred to in paragraph 971(4)(<Emphasis style="italic">b</Emphasis>) of that Act if the financial intermediary activities of the entity that expose the entity to material market or credit risk are limited to providing services exclusively to the insurance holding company or members of the insurance holding company’s group.</Text></Section><Section Code="se=&quot;3&quot;"><MarginalNote Code="se=&quot;3&quot;,m1=&quot;&quot;">Coming into force</MarginalNote><Label>3.</Label><Text>These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.</Text></Section></Body></Regulation>