Insurance Companies Act

Marginal note:Declaration of dividend

• 83 (1) The directors of a company may declare and a company may pay a dividend by issuing fully paid shares of the company or options or rights to acquire fully paid shares of the company and, subject to subsections (4) and (5), the directors of a company may declare and a company may pay a dividend in money or property, and, where a dividend is to be paid in money, the dividend may be paid in a currency other than the currency of Canada.

• Marginal note:Notice to Superintendent

  (2) The directors of a company shall notify the Superintendent of the declaration of a dividend at least ten days prior to the day fixed for its payment.

• Marginal note:Share dividend

  (3) If shares of a company are issued in payment of a dividend, the company shall record in the stated capital account maintained or to be maintained for the shares of the class or series issued in payment of the dividend the declared amount of the dividend stated as an amount of money.

• Marginal note:When dividend not to be declared

  (4) The directors of a company shall not declare and a company shall not pay a dividend if there are reasonable grounds for believing that the company is, or the payment would cause the company to be, in contravention of any regulation referred to in any of subsections 515(1) and (2) and 516(1) and (2) or in any direction made pursuant to subsection 515(3) or 516(4).

• Marginal note:When dividend not to be declared

  (5) The directors of a company shall not declare and a company shall not pay a dividend in any financial year without the approval of the Superintendent if, on the day the dividend is declared, the total of all dividends declared by the company in that year would exceed the aggregate of the company’s net income up to that day in that year and its retained net income for the preceding two financial years.

• (6) to (8) [Repealed, 1997, c. 15, s. 184]