Marginal note:Shareholder and policyholder lists
149 (1) For each meeting of shareholders or policyholders of a company, the company shall prepare
(a) a list, which may be in electronic form, of its shareholders entitled to receive notice of a meeting under paragraph 143(1)(a), arranged in alphabetical order and showing the number of shares held by each shareholder; and
(b) a list, which may be in electronic form, of its policyholders entitled to vote at the meeting.
Marginal note:Time to prepare shareholder list
(1.1) If a record date is fixed under subsection 142(2), the list referred to in paragraph (1)(a) shall be prepared not later than ten days after that record date. If no record date is fixed under that subsection, the list shall be prepared
(a) at the close of business on the day before the day on which the notice of the meeting is given; or
(b) if no notice is given, on the day on which the meeting is held.
Marginal note:Time to prepare policyholder list
(1.2) If a record date is fixed under subsection 142(2.1), the list referred to in paragraph (1)(b) shall be prepared not later than the day on which the meeting is held. If no record date is fixed under that subsection, the list shall be prepared on the day on which the meeting is held.
Marginal note:Effect of shareholder list
(2) Except as otherwise provided in this Act, at a meeting to which a list prepared under paragraph (1)(a) relates, a person named in the list is entitled to vote the shares shown on the list opposite the person’s name unless
(a) the person has transferred the ownership of any of those shares after the record date fixed under subsection 142(2), or, if no record date is fixed, after the date on which the list was prepared, and
(b) the transferee of those shares
(i) produces properly endorsed share certificates, or
(ii) otherwise establishes that the transferee owns the shares,
and demands, not later than ten days before the meeting or such shorter period before the meeting as the by-laws of the company provide, that the transferee’s name be included in the list before the meeting,
in which case the transferee may vote those transferred shares at the meeting.
Marginal note:Effect of policyholder list
(3) A person named in a list prepared under paragraph (1)(b) is entitled to vote at the meeting to which the list relates unless the person has, after the record date fixed under subsection 142(2.1) or, if no record date is fixed under that subsection, after the date on which the list was prepared, transferred the policy entitling the holder to vote, in which case the transferee is entitled to vote at the meeting.
Marginal note:Examination of shareholder list
(4) A shareholder or policyholder of a company may examine the list of shareholders referred to in subsection (1)
(a) during usual business hours at the head office of the company or at the place where its central securities register is maintained; and
(b) at the meeting of shareholders for which the list was prepared.
Marginal note:Verification of right of policyholder to vote
(5) A shareholder or policyholder of a company may, at the meeting of policyholders for which the list referred to in subsection (1) was prepared, require the company to verify from that list whether a person identified both by name and by some other distinguishing feature is entitled to vote at that meeting.
- 1991, c. 47, s. 149
- 1997, c. 15, s. 192
- 1999, c. 1, s. 3
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