Canada Small Business Financing Act

Marginal note:Maximum loan size

• 7 (1) The Minister is not liable to make any payment to a lender, in respect of any loss sustained by it as a result of a loan made to a borrower, if the borrower has disclosed to the lender the outstanding amount of the loan or the lender has actual knowledge of that amount and if the outstanding loan amount in relation to the borrower is more than

  • (a) in the case of a loan made before April 1, 2009, $250,000 or any prescribed lesser amount;

  • (b) in the case of a loan made after March 31, 2009 but before the day on which paragraph (c) comes into force, $500,000 or any prescribed lesser amount, of which a maximum of $350,000 or any prescribed lesser amount is for a purpose other than the purchase or improvement of real property or immovables of which the borrower is or will become the owner;

  • (c) in the case of a loan made after June 22, 2015 but before the day on which paragraph (d) comes into force, $1,000,000 or any prescribed lesser amount, of which a maximum of $350,000 or any prescribed lesser amount is for a purpose other than the purchase or improvement of real property or immovables of which the borrower is or will become the owner; and

  • (d) in the case of a loan made on or after the day on which this paragraph comes into force, $1,150,000 or any prescribed lesser amount, of which maximum amounts may be prescribed for a loan other than a line of credit, a line of credit and prescribed classes of loans.

• Marginal note:Meaning of outstanding loan amount

  (2) The outstanding loan amount referred to in subsection (1) is the aggregate principal amount outstanding, in respect of the borrower and all borrowers that are related to that borrower within the meaning of the regulations, at the time the loan is made, of all loans made under this Act and guaranteed business improvement loans made under the Small Business Loans Act.