An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Telecommunications Act (S.C. 2010, c. 23)
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Act current to 2013-04-29 and last amended on 2011-04-01. Previous Versions
Marginal note:Review of Act by Parliamentary committee
65. Three years after the day on which this section comes into force, a review of the provisions and operation of this Act must be undertaken by any committee of the Senate, of the House of Commons or of both Houses of Parliament that is designated or established for that purpose.
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
Marginal note:Existing business or non-business relationships
66. A person’s consent to receiving commercial electronic messages from another person is implied until the person gives notification that they no longer consent to receiving such messages from that other person or until three years after the day on which section 6 comes into force, whichever is earlier, if, when that section comes into force,
(a) those persons have an existing business relationship or an existing non-business relationship, as defined in subsection 10(10) or (13), respectively, without regard to the period mentioned in that subsection; and
(b) the relationship includes the communication between them of commercial electronic messages.
Marginal note:Software updates and upgrades
67. If a computer program was installed on a person’s computer system before section 8 comes into force, the person’s consent to the installation of an update or upgrade to the program is implied until the person gives notification that they no longer consent to receiving such an installation or until three years after the day on which section 8 comes into force, whichever is earlier.
AMENDMENT TO THIS ACT
68. [Amendment]
AMENDMENT TO THE CANADIAN RADIO-TELEVISION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION ACT
69. [Amendment]
AMENDMENTS TO THE COMPETITION ACT
70. [Amendments]
71. [Amendment]
72. [Amendment]
73. [Amendment]
74. [Amendments]
75. [Amendment]
76. [Amendments]
77. [Amendment]
78. [Amendment]
79. [Amendment]
80. [Amendment]
81. [Amendment]
AMENDMENTS TO THE PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION AND ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS ACT
82. [Amendment]
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