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Competition Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-34)

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Act current to 2026-03-17 and last amended on 2025-06-20. Previous Versions

Marginal note:Promotional contests

 A person engages in reviewable conduct who, for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, the supply or use of a product, or for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, any business interest, conducts any contest, lottery, game of chance or skill, or mixed chance and skill, or otherwise disposes of any product or other benefit by any mode of chance, skill or mixed chance and skill whatever, where

  • (a) adequate and fair disclosure is not made of the number and approximate value of the prizes, of the area or areas to which they relate and of any fact within the knowledge of the person that affects materially the chances of winning;

  • (b) distribution of the prizes is unduly delayed; or

  • (c) selection of participants or distribution of prizes is not made on the basis of skill or on a random basis in any area to which prizes have been allocated.

  • 1999, c. 2, s. 22

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