Insurance Companies Act

Marginal note:Regulations restricting ownership

977 The Governor in Council may make regulations

• (a) for the purposes of subsection 971(4), permitting the acquisition of control or the acquisition or increase of substantial investments, or prescribing the circumstances under which that subsection does not apply or the insurance holding companies or other entities in respect of which that subsection does not apply, including prescribing insurance holding companies or other entities on the basis of the activities they engage in;

• (b) for the purposes of subsection 971(5) or (6), permitting the acquisition of control or the acquisition or increase of substantial investments, or prescribing the circumstances under which either of those subsections does not apply or the insurance holding companies or other entities in respect of which either of those subsections does not apply, including prescribing insurance holding companies or other entities on the basis of the activities they engage in;

• (c) for the purposes of subsection 971(10), permitting an insurance holding company to give up control of an entity;

• (d) restricting the ownership by an insurance holding company of shares of a body corporate or of ownership interests in an unincorporated entity under sections 971 to 976 and imposing terms and conditions applicable to insurance holding companies that own such shares or interests; and

• (e) for the purposes of subsection 971(2.1), establishing terms and conditions respecting the acquisition of control of, or the acquisition or increase of a substantial investment in, a permitted infrastructure entity by an insurance holding company.