Lobbying Act

Marginal note:Definitions

• 2 (1) In this Act,

  Ethics Counsellor

  conseiller

  Ethics Counsellor means the Ethics Counsellor designated pursuant to section 10.1; (conseiller)

  organization

  organisation

  organization includes

  • (a) a business, trade, industry, professional or voluntary organization,

  • (b) a trade union or labour organization,

  • (c) a chamber of commerce or board of trade,

  • (d) a partnership, association, charitable society, coalition or interest group,

  • (e) a government, other than the Government of Canada, and

  • (f) a corporation without share capital incorporated to pursue, without financial gain to its members, objects of a national, provincial, patriotic, religious, philanthropic, charitable, scientific, artistic, social, professional or sporting character or other similar objects; (organisation)

  payment

  paiement

  payment means money or anything of value and includes a contract, promise or agreement to pay money or anything of value; (paiement)

  prescribed

  Version anglaise seulement

  prescribed means prescribed by regulation; (Version anglaise seulement)

  public office holder

  titulaire d’une charge publique

  public office holder means any officer or employee of Her Majesty in right of Canada and includes

  • (a) a member of the Senate or the House of Commons and any person on the staff of such a member,

  • (b) a person who is appointed to any office or body by or with the approval of the Governor in Council or a minister of the Crown, other than a judge receiving a salary under the Judges Act or the lieutenant governor of a province,

  • (c) an officer, director or employee of any federal board, commission or other tribunal as defined in the Federal Court Act,

  • (d) a member of the Canadian Armed Forces, and

  • (e) a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; (titulaire d’une charge publique)

  registrar

  directeur

  registrar means the registrar designated pursuant to section 8. (directeur)

• Marginal note:Subsidiary corporation

  (2) For the purposes of this Act, a corporation is a subsidiary of another corporation if

  • (a) securities of the first-mentioned corporation to which are attached more than fifty per cent of the votes that may be cast to elect directors of the first-mentioned corporation are held, otherwise than by way of security only, directly or indirectly, whether through one or more subsidiaries or otherwise, by or for the benefit of the other corporation; and

  • (b) the votes attached to those securities are sufficient, if exercised, to elect a majority of the directors of the first-mentioned corporation.