Bank Act

Marginal note:Power to make regulations

978 The Governor in Council may make regulations

• (a) prescribing anything that is required or authorized by this Act to be prescribed;

• (b) prescribing the way in which anything that is required or authorized by this Act to be prescribed is to be determined;

• (c) respecting, for any purpose of any provision of the Act, the determination of the equity of a bank or a bank holding company;

• (d) defining words and expressions to be defined for the purposes of this Act;

• (e) requiring the payment of a fee in respect of the filing, examining or issuing of any document or in respect of any action that the Superintendent is required or authorized to take under this Act, and fixing the amount of the fee or the manner of determining its amount;

• (f) respecting the regulatory capital and total assets of a bank or a bank holding company;

• (g) respecting the retention, in Canada, of assets of a bank or a bank holding company;

• (h) respecting the value of assets of a bank or a bank holding company to be held in Canada and the manner in which those assets are to be held;

• (i) respecting the protection and maintenance of assets of a bank or a bank holding company, including regulations respecting the bonding of directors, officers and employees of a bank or a bank holding company;

• (j) respecting the holding of shares and ownership interests for the purposes of sections 70, 74 and 714;

• (k) respecting information, in addition to the information required by section 634 or 953, to be maintained in the register referred to in that section; and

• (l) generally for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.