Marginal note:Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Foreign Extraterritorial Measures Act.

Marginal note:Definitions

2. In this Act,

“antitrust law”

« loi antitrust »

“antitrust law” means a law of a foreign jurisdiction of a kind commonly known as an antitrust law, and includes a law having directly or indirectly as a purpose the preservation or enhancement of competition between business enterprises or the prevention or repression of monopolies or restrictive practices in trade or commerce;

“foreign state”

« État étranger »

“foreign state” means a country other than Canada, and includes

• (a) any political subdivision of the foreign state,

• (b) the government, and any department, of the foreign state or of a political subdivision thereof, and

• (c) any agency of the foreign state or of a political subdivision thereof;

“foreign trade law”

« loi commerciale étrangère »

“foreign trade law” means a law of a foreign jurisdiction that directly or indirectly affects or is likely to affect trade or commerce between

• (a) Canada, a province, a Canadian citizen or a resident of Canada, a corporation incorporated by or under a law of Canada or a province or a person carrying on business in Canada,

and

• (b) any person or foreign state;

“foreign tribunal”

« tribunal étranger »

“foreign tribunal” means a tribunal of a foreign state or of an organization of states;

“judgment”

« jugement »

“judgment” includes a decree or order;

“record”

« document »

“record” includes any correspondence, memorandum, book, plan, map, drawing, diagram, pictorial or graphic work, photograph, film, microform, sound recording, videotape, machine readable record, and any other documentary material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, and any copy or portion thereof;

“tribunal”

« tribunal »

“tribunal” includes any court, body, authority or person having authority to take or receive information, whether on its or his behalf or on behalf of any other court, body, authority or person.