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Export Development Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. E-20)

Act current to 2024-03-06 and last amended on 2022-09-01. Previous Versions

RELATED PROVISIONS

  • — 1993, c. 26, s. 9

    • Transitional
      • 9 (1) Transactions entered into under sections 24, 29, 33, 34 and 39 of the Export Development Act, as those provisions read immediately before the coming into force of section 8 of this Act, are deemed to have been entered into under section 10 of that Act, as amended by section 4 of this Act.

      • Idem

        (2) Transactions entered into under sections 27, 31 and 35 of the Export Development Act, as those provisions read immediately before the coming into force of section 8 of this Act, are deemed to have been entered into under section 23 of that Act, as enacted by section 8 of this Act.

  • — 2001, c. 33, ss. 14 to 17

    • Powers, duties and functions

      14 Wherever, under any Act of Parliament, any instrument made under an Act of Parliament or any contract, lease, licence or other document, a power, duty or function is vested in or exercisable by the Export Development Corporation, that power, duty or function is vested in or exercisable by Export Development Canada.

  • — 2001, c. 33, ss. 14 to 17

    • References

      15 Every reference to the Export Development Corporation in any deed, contract or other document executed by the Export Development Corporation in its own name shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to Export Development Canada.

  • — 2001, c. 33, ss. 14 to 17

    • Rights and obligations transferred

      16 All rights and property of the Export Development Corporation, rights and property held in its name or held in trust for it and all its obligations and liabilities are deemed to be rights, property, obligations and liabilities of Export Development Canada.

  • — 2001, c. 33, ss. 14 to 17

    • Continuation of legal proceedings

      Footnote *17 Any legal proceeding to which the Export Development Corporation is party pending in any court immediately before the day on which this section comes into force may be continued by or against Export Development Canada in the same manner and to the same extent as it could have been continued by or against the Export Development Corporation.

  • — 2009, c. 2, ss. 263(2), (3)

    • Extension
      • 263 (2) The Governor in Council may, by order, extend the period referred to in subsection (1).

      • Arrangement entered into before repeal

        (3) The repeal of paragraph 10(1)(a) of the Act, as enacted by subsection 260(1), has no effect on any arrangement Export Development Canada entered into in order to carry out its purpose referred to in that paragraph. Despite the repeal, Export Development Canada may take any steps and do anything that it considers necessary or desirable to implement the arrangement or that it considers related to the arrangement.

  • — 2020, c. 5, s. 21

    • Suspension
      • 21 (1) If the Minister, as defined in section 2 of the Export Development Act, and the Minister of Finance specify a period under paragraph 10(1)(a) of that Act, subsections 5(2) and 6(2) and (3) of the Export Development Canada Exercise of Certain Powers Regulations do not apply for that period.

      • Transactions entered into during specified period

        (2) Subsections 5(2) and 6(2) and (3) of the Export Development Canada Exercise of Certain Powers Regulations do not apply to a new transaction that Export Development Canada enters into during a period referred to in subsection (1), even after the expiry of that period. Even after the expiry of that period, Export Development Canada may take any steps and do anything that it considers necessary or desirable to implement the transaction or that it considers related to the transaction.

      • Arrangement entered into before expiry of specified period

        (3) The expiry of a period referred to in subsection (1) has no effect on any arrangement Export Development Canada entered into in order to carry out its purpose referred to in paragraph 10(1)(a) of the Export Development Act. Even after the expiry of that period, Export Development Canada may take any steps and do anything that it considers necessary or desirable to implement the arrangement or that it considers related to the arrangement.


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