Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation Act

Marginal note:Provincial deposit insurance

• 37 (1) Where under the law of any province the government of the province or an agent of that government guarantees or insures any of the deposits with a provincial institution operating within the province, the Corporation, subject to any agreement entered into under subsection (3), may

  • (a) insure some or all of the deposits with the institution; or

  • (b) amend an existing policy of deposit insurance issued by the Corporation to the institution, to exclude from the policy any of the deposits with the institution.

• Marginal note:Conditions

  (2) Section 17 applies in respect of any policy of deposit insurance that may be issued, or any amendment of a policy of deposit insurance that may be made, pursuant to subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Agreement with province

  (3) The Corporation may, with the approval of the Governor in Council, enter into an agreement with the government, or an agent of the government, of a province referred to in subsection (1), to provide for reciprocal arrangements relating to the administration or operation of the law of that province and of this Act.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (4) For the purpose of enabling the Corporation to carry out an insuring arrangement referred to in subsection (1) or provided for in an agreement under subsection (3), the Governor in Council may, by regulation, make provision for any matter or thing arising from the insuring arrangement or agreement.

• Marginal note:Refund of premiums

  (5) Where the Corporation during any premium year ceases to insure any of the deposits held by a member institution that is a provincial institution, by reason of the fact that such deposits are guaranteed or insured pursuant to the law of a province, the Corporation may refund to that provincial institution the proportion of the premium paid by the provincial institution to the Corporation for that premium year in respect of those deposits that bears the same relation to the premium for the full premium year in respect of those deposits that the unexpired part of the premium year bears to the full premium year, but in no case shall a refund be made that will reduce the premium paid by the provincial institution to the Corporation for the premium year to less than five thousand dollars.

• Marginal note:Saving

  (6) Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing the Corporation to insure deposits contrary to section 12.

• Marginal note:Definition of “deposits”

  (7) In this section, deposits includes a part of a deposit.