• 11. (1) Except as otherwise provided by a condition of its licence and subject to subsections (2) to (4), the maximum number of minutes of advertising material that may be broadcast by a licensee is

  • (a) 12 minutes in any clock hour in a broadcast day before September 1, 2008; and

  • (b) 15 minutes in any clock hour in a broadcast day on or after September 1, 2008 and before September 1, 2009.

• (2) If a program occupies time in two or more consecutive clock hours, a licensee may broadcast more than the maximum number of minutes of advertising material during any of those clock hours if the average number of minutes of advertising material broadcast during the clock hours occupied by the program does not exceed the maximum.

• (3) In addition to the maximum number of minutes of advertising material, a licensee may broadcast

  • (a) during each clock hour, a maximum of 30 seconds of advertising material that consists of unpaid public service announcements; and

  • (b) partisan political advertising during an election period.

• (4) A licensee may broadcast 14 minutes of advertising material in a clock hour between 7:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. in a broadcast day on or after September 1, 2007 and before September 1, 2008.

• (5) This section shall cease to have effect on September 1, 2009.

• 12. (1) On or before November 30 of each year, a licensee shall submit to the Commission a statement of accounts, on the annual return of broadcasting licensee form, for the 12 month period ending on the previous August 31.

• (2) On or before September 1 of each year, a licensee shall submit to the Commission a program schedule for the 12 month period ending on August 31 of the following year.

• (3) At the request of the Commission, a licensee shall respond to

  • (a) any complaint or request for resolution of a dispute filed by any person or any request for information regarding the programming originated or distributed by the licensee or regarding the licensee’s technical operations, subscribership, financial affairs or ownership; and

  • (b) any request for information regarding the licensee’s adherence to the conditions of its licence, the Act, these Regulations, industry standards, practices or codes or any other self-regulatory mechanism of the industry.

13. A licensee shall not enter into an affiliation agreement with a person falling within a class described in section 3 of the Direction to the CRTC (Eligible Canadian Corporations).

13.1 Except as otherwise provided pursuant to a condition of its licence, a licensee shall own and operate its transmitter.