Marginal note:1990, c. 45, s. 12(1); 1993, c. 27, s. 101(1)

• 83. (1) Subsection 241(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  Marginal note:Registration

  • 241. (1) The Minister may register any person that applies for registration and, upon doing so, must assign a registration number to the person and notify the person in writing of the registration number and the effective date of the registration.

  • Marginal note:Group registration

    (1.1) If a person applies to register a group of selected listed financial institutions that is prescribed for the purposes of subsection 240(1.3), the Minister may register the group and, upon doing so, the following rules apply:

    • (a) the Minister must assign a registration number to the group and notify in writing the person that is prescribed in respect of the group for the purpose of paragraph 240(1.3)(b) and each financial institution listed on the application of the registration number and the effective date of the registration of the group;

    • (b) for each member of the group that is registered under this Subdivision on the day preceding the effective date, that registration is cancelled as of the effective date of the registration of the group; and

    • (c) each member of the group is deemed, for the purposes of this Part other than section 242, to be registered under this Subdivision as of the effective date of the registration of the group and to have a registration number that is the same as the registration number of the group.

  • Marginal note:Addition of new member to group registration

    (1.2) If an application is made to add a selected listed financial institution to the registration of a group under paragraph 240(1.4)(b), the Minister may add the financial institution to the registration and, upon doing so, the following rules apply:

    • (a) the Minister must notify in writing the person that is prescribed in respect of the group for the purpose of paragraph 240(1.3)(b) and the financial institution of the effective date of the addition to the registration;

    • (b) if the financial institution is registered under this Subdivision on the day preceding the effective date, that registration of the financial institution is cancelled as of the effective date; and

    • (c) the financial institution is deemed, for the purposes of this Part other than section 242, to be registered under this Subdivision as of the effective date and to have a registration number that is the same as the registration number of the group.

• (2) Subsection (1) is deemed to have come into force on July 1, 2010.

• 84. (1) Section 242 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):

  • Marginal note:Cancellation of group registration

    (1.1) The Minister may, after giving reasonable written notice to each member of a group that is registered under this Subdivision and to the person that is prescribed in respect of the group for the purposes of paragraph 240(1.3)(b), cancel the registration of the group if the Minister is satisfied that the registration is not required for the purposes of this Part.

  • Marginal note:Cancellation of group registration

    (1.2) The Minister must cancel the registration of a group in prescribed circumstances.

  • Marginal note:Removal from group registration

    (1.3) The Minister may, after giving reasonable written notice to a particular person that is a member of a group that is registered under this Subdivision and to the person that is prescribed in respect of the group for the purposes of paragraph 240(1.3)(b), remove the particular person from the registration of the group if the Minister is satisfied that the particular person is not required to be included in the registration for the purposes of this Part.

  • Marginal note:Removal from group registration

    (1.4) The Minister must remove a person from the registration of a group in prescribed circumstances.

• Marginal note:1993, c. 27, s. 102(2)

  (2) Subsection 242(3) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Notice of cancellation or variation

    (3) If the Minister cancels or varies the registration of a person, the Minister must notify the person in writing of the cancellation or variation and its effective date.

  • Marginal note:Group registration — notice of cancellation

    (4) If the Minister cancels the registration of a group,

    • (a) the Minister must notify in writing each member of the group and the person that is prescribed in respect of the group for the purposes of paragraph 240(1.3)(b) of the cancellation and its effective date; and

    • (b) each member of the group is deemed, for the purposes of this Part, to no longer be registered under this Subdivision as of the effective date of the cancellation.

  • Marginal note:Group registration — notice of removal

    (5) If the Minister removes a particular person from the registration of a group,

    • (a) the Minister must notify in writing the particular person and the person that is prescribed in respect of the group for the purposes of paragraph 240(1.3)(b) of the removal and its effective date; and

    • (b) the particular person is deemed, for the purposes of this Part, to no longer be registered under this Subdivision as of the effective date of the removal.

• (3) Subsections (1) and (2) are deemed to have come into force on July 1, 2010.

• 85. (1) The Act is amended by adding the following after section 244:

  Marginal note:Fiscal year — selected listed financial institution

  • 244.1 (1) If a person is a financial institution described in subparagraph 149(1)(a)(vi) or (ix) that is a selected listed financial institution throughout a particular reporting period in a particular fiscal year of the person that begins in a particular calendar year and the person was not a selected listed financial institution throughout the reporting period immediately before the particular reporting period, the following rules apply:

    • (a) the particular fiscal year ends on the last day of the particular calendar year; and

    • (b) as of the beginning of the first day of the calendar year that is immediately after the particular calendar year, the fiscal years of the person are calendar years and any election made by the person under section 244 ceases to have effect.

  • Marginal note:Fiscal year — selected listed financial institution

    (2) Despite subsection (1), if a person is a financial institution described in subparagraph 149(1)(a)(vi) or (ix) that is a selected listed financial institution throughout a particular reporting period in a particular fiscal year of the person, the following rules apply in prescribed circumstances to determine the fiscal year of the person:

    • (a) the particular fiscal year ends on the day immediately before the prescribed day referred to in paragraph (b); and

    • (b) the following fiscal year of the person begins on a prescribed day.

  • Marginal note:Ceasing to be selected listed financial institution

    (3) If a person is a financial institution described in subparagraph 149(1)(a)(vi) or (ix) that is a selected listed financial institution throughout a reporting period in a particular fiscal year and the person is not a selected listed financial institution throughout a reporting period in the following fiscal year of the person, that following fiscal year ends on the day on which it would end in the absence of this section.

• (2) Subsection (1) applies in respect of any fiscal year of a person that ends after 2010, except that in applying subsection 244.1(1) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (1), in respect of any fiscal year that begins before 2011, that subsection of the Act is to be read without reference to “and the person was not a selected listed financial institution throughout the reporting period immediately before the particular reporting period”.

Marginal note:1990, c. 45, s. 12(1)

• 86. (1) Subsection 246(3) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Duration of election

    (3) An election made under this section by a person is to remain in effect until the earlier of

    • (a) the beginning of the day on which an election by the person under section 247 or 248 takes effect, and

    • (b) the day on which a revocation of the election by the person under subsection (4) becomes effective.

  • Marginal note:Revocation of election

    (4) A listed financial institution that has made an election under this section may revoke the election, effective on the first day of a fiscal year of the financial institution, by filing in prescribed manner with the Minister a notice of revocation in prescribed form containing prescribed information not later than the day on which the revocation is to become effective or any later day that the Minister may allow.

• (2) Subsection (1) applies to any fiscal year that ends on or after July 1, 2010.

• 87. (1) Subsection 247(2) of the Act is amended by striking out “and” at the end of paragraph (b), by adding “and” at the end of paragraph (c) and by adding the following after paragraph (c):

  • (d) the day on which a revocation of the election by the person under subsection (3) becomes effective.

• (2) Section 247 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):

  • Marginal note:Revocation of election

    (3) A listed financial institution that has made an election under this section may revoke the election, effective on the first day of a fiscal year of the financial institution, by filing in prescribed manner with the Minister a notice of revocation in prescribed form containing prescribed information not later than the day on which the revocation is to become effective or any later day that the Minister may allow.

• (3) Subsections (1) and (2) apply to any fiscal year that ends on or after July 1, 2010.

Marginal note:2010, c. 12, s. 75(2)

• 88. (1) The definitions “participating employer”, “pension entity” and “pension plan” in subsection 261.01(1) of the Act are repealed.

• (2) Subsection (1) is deemed to have come into force on September 23, 2009.

Marginal note:1997, c. 10, s. 229(1)

• 89. (1) Subsection 261.3(2) of the Act is repealed.

• (2) Subsection (1) is deemed to have come into force on July 1, 2010.

Marginal note:1997, c. 10, s. 229(1)

• 90. (1) Subsection 261.31(1) of the Act is repealed.

• Marginal note:1997, c. 10, s. 229(1); 2009, c. 32, s. 34(1)

  (2) Subsections 261.31(2) and (3) of the Act are replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Rebate for tax payable by investment plans

    (2) If tax under subsection 165(2), sections 212.1 or 218.1 or Division IV.1 is payable by a listed financial institution described in subparagraph 149(1)(a)(vi) or (ix), other than a selected listed financial institution, or by a prescribed person and prescribed conditions are satisfied, the Minister must, subject to section 261.4, pay a rebate to the financial institution or person equal to the amount determined in prescribed manner.

  • Marginal note:Election by segregated fund and insurer

    (3) An insurer and a segregated fund of the insurer may elect, in prescribed form containing prescribed information, to have the insurer pay to, or credit in favour of, the segregated fund the amount of any rebates payable to the segregated fund under subsection (2) in respect of supplies made by the insurer to the segregated fund.

• Marginal note:1997, c. 10, s. 229(1)

  (3) Subsection 261.31(5) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Application to insurer

    (5) An insurer may pay or credit to or in favour of a segregated fund of the insurer the amount of a rebate under subsection (2) in respect of a taxable supply made by the insurer to the segregated fund that, if the segregated fund complied with section 261.4 in relation to the supply, would be payable to the segregated fund if

    • (a) the insurer and the segregated fund have filed an election made under subsection (3) that is in effect when tax in respect of the supply becomes payable; and

    • (b) the segregated fund, within one year after the day on which tax becomes payable in respect of the supply, submits to the insurer an application for the rebate in prescribed form containing prescribed information.

• (4) Subsections (1) to (3) apply in respect of any rebate that is in respect of tax that became payable, or was paid without having become payable, on or after July 1, 2010.

• 91. (1) Section 261.4 of the Act is renumbered as subsection 261.4(1) and is amended by adding the following:

  • Marginal note:Exception for investment plans, etc.

    (2) A rebate under any of sections 261.1 to 261.3 in respect of tax paid or payable by a listed financial institution described in subparagraph 149(1)(a)(vi) or (ix) must not be paid.

• (2) Subsection (1) applies in respect of any rebate that is in respect of tax that became payable, or was paid without having become payable, on or after July 1, 2010.

• 92. (1) Section 263.01 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (3):

  • Marginal note:Exception — prescribed person

    (4) Despite subsection (1), a rebate under section 261.31 in respect of a prescribed amount of tax may be paid to a person that is prescribed for the purpose of subsection 261.31(2).

• (2) Subsection (1) is deemed to have come into force on July 1, 2010.

2010, c. 12Jobs and Economic Growth Act

• 93. (1) Subsection 58(2) of the Jobs and Economic Growth Act is amended by striking out “and” at the end of paragraph (a) and by adding the following after paragraph (a):

  • (a.1) if a person that is a participating employer of a pension plan acquires property or a service for the purpose of making a supply of all or part of the property or service to a pension entity of the pension plan but not for the purpose of making a supply of any part of the property or service to a pension entity of the pension plan after June 2010, the amount determined for B in the formula in paragraph 172.1(5)(c) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (1), for Nova Scotia in respect of a taxable supply of all or part of the property or service that is deemed to have been made under paragraph 172.1(5)(a) of the Act, as enacted by subsection (1), on the last day of a fiscal year of the person is to be determined as if the tax rate for Nova Scotia on the last day of the fiscal year were 8%; and

• (2) The formula in the read-as text in paragraph 58(2)(b) of the Act and the descriptions in that formula are replaced by the following:

  E × [(F × G/H) – (I × J/H)]

  where

  E

  is the amount determined for C,

  F

  is the provincial factor in respect of the pension plan and the participating province for the particular fiscal year,

  G

  is

  • (i) if the participating province is Ontario or British Columbia, the number of days in the particular fiscal year that are after June 2010, and

  • (ii) in any other case, the number of days in the particular fiscal year,

  H

  is the number of days in the particular fiscal year,

  I

  is the amount (expressed as a percentage) that would be the provincial factor in respect of the pension plan and the participating province for the particular fiscal year if the tax rate for the participating province on the last day of the fiscal year were 2%, and

  J

  is

  • (i) if the participating province is Nova Scotia, the number of days in the particular fiscal year that are before July 2010, and

  • (ii) in any other case, zero; and

94. Section 64 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (7):

95. The formula in the read-as text in subsection 75(4) of the Act and the descriptions in that formula are replaced by the following: