1. These Regulations may be cited as the Automotive Manufacturing Assistance Regulations.

• 2. (1) In these Regulations,

  “automobile”

  “automobile” means a four-wheeled passenger automobile having a seating capacity for not more than 10 persons; (automobile)

  “automotive program”

  “automotive program” means the Canada-United States Agreement on Automotive Products, Order in Council 1965-99, and the Letters of Commitment addressed to the Minister of Industry from the several automotive products manufacturers, taken together; (programme de l'industrie automobile)

  “Board”

  “Board” means the General Adjustment Assistance Board established by the General Adjustment Assistance Regulations; (Commission)

  “bus”

  “bus” means a passenger motor vehicle having a seating capacity for more than 10 persons or a chassis therefor, but does not include any following vehicle or chassis therefor, namely, an electric trackless trolley bus, amphibious vehicle, tracked or half-tracked vehicle or motor vehicle designed primarily for off-highway use; (autobus)

  “eligible manufacturer”

  “eligible manufacturer” means a person, firm or corporation that is not a manufacturer of automobiles or a subsidiary wholly-owned corporation or subsidiary controlled corporation of an automobile manufacturer or its parent corporation, and that in the opinion of the Board is

  • (a) a manufacturer in Canada, or a holding company of a manufacturer in Canada, of significant quantities of parts or accessories or both or parts of either, including tires and tubes, or both or either, for use as original equipment in automobiles, buses, off-highway vehicles or specified commercial vehicles,

  • (b) a supplier in Canada, or a holding company of a supplier in Canada, of significant quantities of materials to a manufacturer of parts or accessories or both or parts of either, including tires and tubes, or both or either, or of tooling for use in the production of parts or accessories or both or parts of either for use as original equipment in automobiles, buses, off-highway vehicles or specified commercial vehicles,

  • (c) a manufacturer in Canada, or a holding company of a manufacturer in Canada, of significant quantities of tooling for use by a manufacturer of parts and accessories or both or parts of either, including tires and tubes, or both or either, or for use as original equipment for automobiles, buses, off-highway vehicles or specified commercial vehicles, or

  • (d) a manufacturer in Canada, or a holding company of a manufacturer in Canada, of a significant number of buses, off-highway vehicles or specified commercial vehicles or all of them; (fabricant admissible)

  “off-highway vehicle”

  “off-highway vehicle” means a self-propelled truck designed primarily for off-highway use at quarries, mines, gravel or sand pits, construction sites or in logging operations, or a chassis therefor, but does not include machines for felling, skidding, piling, loading, bunching or processing trees or logs, which have been modified for carrying a load, nor any machine or other article required under tariff item 43803-1 to be valued separately under the tariff items regularly applicable thereto; (véhicule tout terrain)

  “specified commercial vehicle”

  “specified commercial vehicle” means a motor truck, ambulance or hearse, or a chassis therefor, but does not include any following vehicle or chassis therefor, namely, a bus, electric trackless trolley bus, fire truck, amphibious vehicle, tracked or half-tracked vehicle, golf or invalid cart, straddle carrier or motor vehicle designed primarily for off-highway use, or any machine or other article required under tariff item 43803-1 to be valued separately under the tariff item regularly applicable thereto; (véhicule commercial spécifié)

  “"subsidiary wholly-owned corporation" and "subsidiary controlled corporation"”

  “"subsidiary wholly-owned corporation" and "subsidiary controlled corporation"” have the meanings assigned to those expressions by the Income Tax Act; (corporation filiale entièrement possédée et corporation filiale controlée)

  “tooling”

  “tooling” includes patterns, jigs, fixtures, moulds, models, dies, gauges and punches. (outillage)

• (2) For the purposes of the definition "eligible manufacturer" in subsection (1), a company is the holding company of a manufacturer only if that manufacturer is its subsidiary; and a company is a subsidiary of another company only if

  • (a) it is controlled by

    • (i) that other company, or

    • (ii) that other company and one or more companies each of which is controlled by that other company, or

    • (iii) two or more companies each of which is controlled by that other company; or

  • (b) it is a subsidiary of a subsidiary of that other company.