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son, an entity or a personal representative; ( personne ) personal representative means a person who stands in place of and represents another person and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes, as the circumstances require, a trustee, an executor, an administrator, a committee, a guardian, a tutor, a curator, an assignee, a receiver, an agent or an attorney of any person, but does not include a delegate; ( représentant personnel ) prescribed means prescribed by regulation; ( Version anglaise seulement ) principal office means, in relation to an authorized foreign bank, the office required to be maintained under section 535; ( bureau principal ) principal officer in relation to an authorized foreign bank means the person appointed under section 536; ( dirigeant principal ) proxy means a completed and executed form of proxy by means of which a shareholder appoints a proxyholder to attend and act on the shareholder’s behalf at a meeting of shareholders; ( procuration ) proxyholder means the person appointed by proxy to attend and act on behalf of a shareholder at a meeting of shareholders; ( fondé de pouvoir ) real property includes a leasehold interest in real property; ( biens immeubles ) recorded address means (a) in relation to a person who is a shareholder of a bank or a bank holding company, the latest postal address of the person according to its central securities register, (a.1) in relation to a person who is a member of a federal credit union, the latest postal address of the person according to the members register, and (b) in relation to a person in any other respect in relation to a bank, the latest postal address of the person according to the records of the branch concerned; ( adresse enregistrée ) registered form , in respect of a security, means a security in registered form as determined in accordance with subsection 83(4); ( titre nominatif ) regulated foreign entity means an entity that is (a) incorporated or formed otherwise in a country or territory, other than Canada, in which a trade agreement listed in Schedule IV is applicable, and (b) subject to financial services regulation in that country or territory; ( entité étrangère réglementée ) regulatory capital , in respect of a bank or a bank holding company, has the meaning given that expression by the regulations; ( capital réglementaire ) resident Canadian means a natural person who is (a) a Canadian citizen ordinarily resident in Canada, (b) a Canadian citizen not ordinarily resident in Canada who is a member of a prescribed class of persons, or (c) a permanent resident within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and ordinarily resident in Canada, except a permanent resident who has been ordinarily resident in Canada for more than one year after the time at which the individual first became eligible to apply for Canadian citizenship; ( résident canadien ) residential property means real property consisting of buildings that are used, or are to be used, to the extent of at least one half of the floor space thereof, as one or more private dwellings; ( immeuble résidentiel ) securities underwriter means a person who, as principal, agrees to purchase securities with a view to the distribution of the securities or who, as agent for a body corporate or other person, offers for sale or sells securities in connection with a distribution of the securities, and includes a person who participates, directly or indirectly, in a distribution of securities, other than a person whose interest in the distribution of securities is limited to receiving a distributor’s or seller’s commission payable by a securities underwriter; ( souscripteur à forfait ) security means (a) in relation to a body corporate, a share of any class of shares of the body corporate or a debt obligation of the body corporate, and includes a warrant of the body corporate, but does not include a deposit with a financial institution or any in