Marginal note:Order to comply

• 263. (1) Where a person is guilty of an offence under this Act or the regulations, any court in which proceedings in respect of the offence are taken may, in addition to any punishment it may impose, order that person to comply with the provisions of this Act or the regulations for the contravention of which the person has been convicted.

• Marginal note:Limitation period

  (2) A prosecution for an offence under this Act may be instituted at any time within but not later than two years after the time when the subject matter of the complaint arose.

• Marginal note:Civil remedy not affected

  (3) No civil remedy for an act or omission is suspended or affected by reason that the act or omission is an offence under this Act.

PART 17DOCUMENTS IN ELECTRONIC OR OTHER FORM

Marginal note:Definitions

264. The following definitions apply in this Part.

“electronic document”

« document électronique »

“electronic document” means, except in section 269, any form of representation of information or of concepts fixed in any medium in or by electronic, optical or other similar means and that can be read or perceived by a person or by any means.

“information system”

« système d’information »

“information system” means a system used to generate, send, receive, store or otherwise process an electronic document.

Marginal note:Application

265. This Part does not apply to information, including information in a notice or other document, sent to or issued by the Director under this Act or prescribed for the purposes of this section.

Marginal note:Use not mandatory

• 266. (1) Nothing in this Act or the regulations requires a person to create or provide an electronic document.

• Marginal note:Consent and other requirements

  (2) Despite anything in this Part, a requirement under this Act or the regulations to provide a person with information, including information in a notice or other document, is not satisfied by the provision of an electronic document unless

  • (a) the addressee has consented, in the manner prescribed, and has designated an information system for the receipt of the electronic document; and

  • (b) either the electronic document is provided to the designated information system or any other prescribed action is taken.

• Marginal note:Revocation of consent

  (3) An addressee may revoke the consent referred to in paragraph (2)(a) in the manner prescribed.

Marginal note:Creation and provision of information

267. A requirement under this Act or the regulations that information, including information in a notice or other document, be created or provided is satisfied by the creation or provision of an electronic document if

• (a) the by-laws or the articles of the corporation do not otherwise provide; and

• (b) the regulations, if any, have been complied with.

Marginal note:Creation of information in writing

• 268. (1) A requirement under this Act or the regulations that information, including information in a notice or other document, be created in writing is satisfied by the creation of an electronic document if, in addition to the conditions set out in section 267,

  • (a) the information in the electronic document is accessible so as to be usable for subsequent reference; and

  • (b) the regulations pertaining to this subsection, if any, have been complied with.

• Marginal note:Provision of information in writing

  (2) A requirement under this Act or the regulations that information, including information in a notice or other document, be provided in writing is satisfied by the provision of an electronic document if, in addition to the conditions set out in section 267,

  • (a) the information in the electronic document is accessible by the addressee and capable of being retained by the addressee, so as to be usable for subsequent reference; and

  • (b) the regulations pertaining to this subsection, if any, have been complied with.

• Marginal note:Copies

  (3) A requirement under this Act or the regulations for one or more copies of a document to be provided to a single addressee at the same time is satisfied by the provision of a single version of an electronic document.

• Marginal note:Registered mail

  (4) A requirement under this Act or the regulations to provide a document by registered mail cannot be satisfied by means of an electronic document unless the regulations so prescribe and, in such case, only in accordance with the prescribed requirements.

Marginal note:Statutory declarations and affidavits

• 269. (1) A statutory declaration or an affidavit required under this Act or the regulations may be created or provided in an electronic document if

  • (a) the person who makes the statutory declaration or affidavit signs it with his or her secure electronic signature;

  • (b) the authorized person before whom the statutory declaration or affidavit is made signs it with his or her secure electronic signature; and

  • (c) the requirements of sections 266 to 268 are complied with.

• Marginal note:Definitions

  (2) For the purposes of this section, “electronic document” and “secure electronic signature” have the same meaning as in subsection 31(1) of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

• Marginal note:Clarification

  (3) For the purpose of complying with paragraph (1)(c), the references to an “electronic document” in sections 266 to 268 are to be read as references to an electronic document as defined in subsection 31(1) of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

Marginal note:Signatures

270. Except with respect to a statutory declaration or an affidavit, a requirement under this Act or the regulations for a signature or for a document to be executed is satisfied in relation to an electronic document if the prescribed requirements, if any, pertaining to this section are met and if the signature results from the application by a person of a technology or a process that permits the following to be proven:

• (a) the signature resulting from the use by the person of the technology or process is unique to the person;

• (b) the technology or process is used by the person to incorporate, attach or associate the person’s signature to the electronic document; and

• (c) the technology or process can be used to identify its user.