Canada Elections Act

Marginal note:Obligation to file registration notice — agreement

• 348.07 (1) A person who enters into an agreement with a calling service provider for voter contact calling services, either in their own name or on behalf of another person or a group, or a person who provides an authorization of the provision of voter contact calling services under an agreement in accordance with subsection 348.05(2), as the case may be, shall file a registration notice with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.

• Marginal note:Time for filing and contents

  (2) For each election period to which the agreement applies, the registration notice shall be filed not later than 48 hours after the first call is made under the agreement and shall set out

  • (a) the calling service provider’s name;

  • (b) the name of the person or group that is a party to the agreement;

  • (b.1) the name of the person or group on whose behalf calls will be made under the agreement; and

  • (c) the type of calls to be made under the agreement.

• Marginal note:Obligation to provide copy of identification document

  (3) The person who files the registration notice shall, at the time of filing the registration notice, provide the Commission with their name, address and telephone number and a copy of a piece of identification authorized by the Commission that contains their name.

• Marginal note:Deeming

  (4) Except for the purposes of section 348.12, a registration notice is deemed not to have been filed if the information and the copy of the piece of identification are not provided at the time the registration notice is filed.