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INSURANCE COMPANIES ACTConverted Company Ownership RegulationsP.C.1999-423  19993

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His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance, pursuant to subsections 407(4)a and (5)b and paragraph 703(b) of the Insurance Companies Actc, hereby makes the annexed Converted Company Ownership Regulations.aS.C. 1999, c. 1, s. 7bS.C. 1997, c. 15, s. 24cS.C. 1991, c. 47Interpretation

1In these Regulations, Act means the Insurance Companies Act. (Loi)

Meaning of “Widely Held”

2For the purposes of subsection 407(4) of the Act, a life company is widely held at a particular time if at that time(a)no person has a significant interest in any class of shares of the life company; or(b)where another company acquired all of the voting shares of the life company as a result of the conversion of the life company into a company with common shares and holds all of the voting shares of the life company at that time, no person has a significant interest in(i)any class of shares of the other company, or(ii)any class of non-voting shares of the life company.

Exception

3For the purposes of subsection 407(5) of the Act, the companies in respect of which subsection 407(4) of the Act does not apply are life companies whose total assets in Canada were less than $7.5 billion on December 31, 1991.

Coming into Force

4These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.