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Version of section 170 from 2003-01-01 to 2012-12-18:


Marginal note:Void election or appointment

  •  (1) If, immediately after the time of any purported election or appointment of directors, the board of directors would fail to comply with subsection 159(2) or 163(1) or section 164, the purported election or appointment of all persons purported to be elected or appointed at that time is void unless the directors, within forty-five days after the discovery of the non-compliance, develop a plan, approved by the Superintendent, to rectify the non-compliance.

  • Marginal note:Failure to elect minimum

    (2) Where, at the close of a meeting of shareholders of a bank, the shareholders have failed to elect the number or minimum number of directors required by this Act or the by-laws of a bank, the purported election of directors at the meeting

    • (a) is valid if the directors purported to be elected and those incumbent directors, if any, whose terms did not expire at the close of the meeting, together constitute a quorum; or

    • (b) is void if the directors purported to be elected and those incumbent directors, if any, whose terms did not expire at the close of the meeting, together do not constitute a quorum.

  • (3) and (4) [Repealed, 1997, c. 15, s. 15]

  • 1991, c. 46, s. 170
  • 1997, c. 15, s. 15

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