Insurance Companies Act

Marginal note:Suspension of voting rights held by governments

• 955 (1) Notwithstanding section 775, where any voting shares of an insurance holding company are beneficially owned by

  • (a) Her Majesty in right of Canada or of a province or any agency of Her Majesty in either of those rights, or

  • (b) the government of a foreign country or any political subdivision thereof, or any agency thereof,

  no person shall, in person or by proxy, exercise the voting rights attached to those shares.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a foreign institution that is controlled by the government of a foreign country or any political subdivision of a foreign country, or by any agent or agency of a foreign government, if the shares referred to in subsection (1) are beneficially owned by the foreign institution or by an entity controlled by the foreign institution.

• Marginal note:Exception — eligible agent

  (3) Subsection (1) does not apply in respect of the exercise of voting rights attached to any share referred to in subsection 954(3).