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Insurance Companies Act

Version of section 647 from 2021-06-30 to 2024-03-06:


Marginal note:Records

  •  (1) A foreign company shall prepare and maintain

    • (a) copies of all orders of the Superintendent in relation to the foreign company;

    • (b) accounting records respecting its insurance business in Canada; and

    • (c) with respect to its insurance business in Canada, records showing, for each customer of, or claimant under a policy issued by, the foreign company, the amount owing to the foreign company and the nature of the liabilities of the foreign company to the customer or claimant.

  • Marginal note:Standards for record keeping

    (2) The records described in paragraphs (1)(b) and (c) shall be kept in a manner that enables the chief agent of the foreign company to provide the Superintendent with the information required by section 664 and with the annual return required by subsection 665(2).

  • Marginal note:Place of records

    (3) The records described in subsection (1) shall be kept at the chief agency of the foreign company.

  • Marginal note:Exception

    (4) Subject to subsection 268(1.1), subsection (3) does not apply to a foreign company incorporated or formed otherwise in a country or territory other than Canada in which a trade agreement listed in Schedule IV of the Bank Act is applicable or that is a subsidiary of a regulated foreign entity.

  • 1991, c. 47, s. 647
  • 2001, c. 9, s. 449
  • 2007, c. 6, s. 297
  • 2020, c. 1, s. 177

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