Insurance Companies Act

Marginal note:Order to commence and carry on business

• 52 (1) Subject to subsection (6), a company or society shall not carry on any business until the Superintendent has, by order, approved the commencement and carrying on of business by the company or society.

• Marginal note:Former-Act companies and societies

  (2) A certificate of registry issued to a company or society under Part III of the Canadian and British Insurance Companies Act, or any other authorization, that is in effect immediately before the coming into force of this Part is deemed to be an order of the Superintendent of indeterminate duration under subsection 53(1) and the company or society remains subject to any and all other restrictions and conditions in the certificate.

• Marginal note:Continued company or society

  (3) Except in respect of a body corporate that is continued as a company or society under this Act for the purposes of amalgamating without delay with one or more bodies corporate and continuing as a company or society under this Act, where letters patent continuing a body corporate as a company or society under this Act are issued, the Superintendent shall make an order approving the commencement and carrying on of business by the company or society.

• Marginal note:Amalgamated company or society

  (4) Where letters patent amalgamating and continuing two or more bodies corporate as a company or society under this Act are issued, the Superintendent shall make an order approving the commencement and carrying on of business by the company or society.

• Marginal note:Subsection 53(2) and section 57 do not apply

  (5) For greater certainty, subsection 53(2) and section 57 do not apply in respect of a company or society referred to in subsections (3) and (4).

• Marginal note:Marine insurance

  (6) A company that is not a marine company may insure risks in the class of marine insurance without an order under subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Transitional

  (7) Every former-Act company and former-Act society that deposited securities with the Receiver General pursuant to section 76 or 82 of the Canadian and British Insurance Companies Act shall apply for the return of those securities within such period following the coming into force of this section as may be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.