Marginal note:Report
89 (1) The Board shall in each year submit to the Minister a report setting out
(a) the Board’s estimate of the proportion, as a percentage, that the expenditures of each patentee in Canada in the preceding year on research and development relating to medicine is of the revenues of those patentees from sales of medicine in Canada in that year; and
(b) the Board’s estimate of the proportion, as a percentage, that the total of the expenditures of patentees in Canada in the preceding year on research and development relating to medicine is of the total of the revenues of those patentees from sales of medicine in Canada in that year.
Marginal note:Basis of report
(2) The report shall be based on an analysis of information and documents provided to the Board under subsections 88(1) and (2) and of such other information and documents relating to the revenues and expenditures referred to in subsection 88(1) as the Board considers relevant but, subject to subsection (3), shall not be set out in a manner that would make it possible to identify a person who provided any information or document under subsection 88(1) or (2).
Marginal note:Exception
(3) The Board shall, in the report, identify the patentees in respect of whom an estimate referred to in subsection (1) is given in the report, and may, in the report, identify any person who has failed to comply with subsection 88(1) or (2) at any time in the year in respect of which the report is made.
Marginal note:Tabling of report
(4) The Minister shall cause a copy of the report to be laid before each House of Parliament on any of the first thirty days on which that House is sitting after the report is submitted to the Minister.
- 1993, c. 2, s. 7
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