Insurance Companies Act

Marginal note:Constraining registration — Crown and foreign governments

• 954 (1) No insurance holding company shall record in its securities register a transfer or issue of any share of the insurance holding company to

  • (a) Her Majesty in right of Canada or of a province or any agent or agency of Her Majesty in either of those rights; or

  • (b) the government of a foreign country or any political subdivision thereof, or any agent or agency thereof.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Despite subsection (1), an insurance holding company may record in its securities register a transfer or issue of any share of the insurance holding company to a foreign institution that is controlled by the government of a foreign country or any political subdivision of a foreign country, or by any agent or agency of a foreign government, if the share that is transferred or issued is beneficially owned by the foreign institution or by an entity controlled by the foreign institution.