Canada Cooperatives Act

Marginal note:Records of Director

• 378 (1) Records required by this Act to be maintained by the Director may be in bound or loose-leaf form or in photographic film form, or may be entered or recorded by a system of mechanical or electronic data processing or by any other information storage device that is capable of reproducing any required information in intelligible written form within a reasonable time.

• Marginal note:Obligation

  (2) If records that are maintained by the Director are maintained other than in written form,

  • (a) the Director must provide any copy required to be provided under subsection 377(2) in intelligible written form; and

  • (b) a report reproduced from those records, if it is certified by the Director, is admissible in evidence to the same extent as the original written records would have been.

• Marginal note:Retention of records

  (3) The Director is not required to produce any document, other than a certificate and attached articles or statement filed under section 373, after the expiration of the prescribed period.

• Marginal note:Form of publication

  (4) Information or notices required by this Act to be summarized in a publication generally available to the public or to be published by the Director may be made available to the public or published by a system of mechanical or electronic data processing or any other information storage device that is capable of reproducing any required information or notice in intelligible form within a reasonable time.