Marginal note:Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Bell Canada Act.

Marginal note:Definitions

2. In this Act,

“affiliate”

« personne du même groupe »

“affiliate”, in respect of the Company, means any person that controls or is controlled by the Company or that is controlled by the same person that controls the Company;

“Commission”

« Conseil »

“Commission” means the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission;

“Company”

« Compagnie »

“Company” means The Bell Telephone Company of Canada, established by an Act of Parliament and continued as a corporation under the names "The Bell Telephone Company of Canada", "La Compagnie de Téléphone Bell du Canada" and "Bell Canada" under the Canada Business Corporations Act on April 21, 1982, whether or not the name of the Company is subsequently changed;

“control”

« contrôle »

“control” includes control in fact, whether or not through one or more persons.

Marginal note:Inconsistencies

3. In the event of any inconsistency between the provisions of this Act and any other Act of Parliament providing for the incorporation of corporations, or anything issued, made or established under that other Act, the provisions of this Act prevail.

4. [Repealed, 1993, c. 38, s. 78]

Marginal note:Declaration re works

5. The works of the Company are hereby declared to be works for the general advantage of Canada.

Marginal note:Company to furnish service in certain cases

• 6. (1) Where a telephone service is requested by any person or organization for any lawful purpose in a municipality or other territory within which a general telephone service is provided by the Company, the Company shall, with all reasonable dispatch,

  • (a) furnish the service; and

  • (b) subject to any order of the Commission under section 13 that restricts the right or ability of the Company to be a supplier of telephones, furnish telephones of the latest improved design then in use by the Company in the municipality or territory.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Nothing in subsection (1) requires the Company to furnish the service or a telephone where

  • (a) the premises for which the service is requested are not fronting on a highway, street, lane or other area along, over, under or on which the Company has a main or branch telephone service or system;

  • (b) the telephone on the premises would be situated more than 62 metres or such other distance as the Commission may specify from the highway, street, lane or other area; or

  • (c) if the Commission has not otherwise specified, the Company has not received therefor a tender or payment of the lawful rates semi-annually in advance.