Cooperative Credit Associations Act — C-41.01 2
business of providing financial services, and (b) incorporated or formed otherwise than by or under an Act of Parliament or of the legislature of a province; ( institution étrangère ) former Act means the Cooperative Credit Associations Act , chapter C-41 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985; ( loi antérieure ) former-Act association means the Canadian Co-operative Credit Society Limited, a corporation incorporated by chapter 58 of the Statutes of Canada, 1952-53; ( association antérieure ) form of proxy means a written or printed form that, when completed and executed by or on behalf of a shareholder, constitutes a proxy; ( formulaire de procuration ) guarantee includes a letter of credit; ( garantie ) head office means the office required to be maintained by an association pursuant to section 234; ( siège ) holder means (a) in respect of a security certificate, the person in possession of the certificate issued or endorsed to that person or to bearer or in blank, (b) in respect of the ownership of a membership share, the person referred to in section 7, and (c) in respect of the ownership of a share, the shareholder of the share within the meaning of section 8; ( détenteur ) holding body corporate means a holding body corporate within the meaning of section 4; ( société mère ) incorporated , when used with reference to a body corporate that is incorporated by or under an Act of Parliament or of the legislature of a province, also refers to a body corporate that is continued by or under any such Act; ( constitué en personne morale ou constitué ) incorporating instrument means the special Act, letters patent, instrument of continuance or other constating instrument by which a body corporate was incorporated or continued and includes any amendment to or restatement of the constating instrument; ( acte constitutif ) incorporator , in relation to an association, means a person who applied for letters patent to incorporate the association; ( fondateur ) issuer , in respect of a security, means the entity that issues or issued the security; ( émetteur ) league [Repealed, 2014, c. 39, s. 278] letters patent , in respect of an instrument authorized to be issued under this Act, means letters patent in a form approved by the Superintendent; ( lettres patentes ) local cooperative credit society means a cooperative credit society incorporated by or under an Act of the legislature of a province (a) whose members consist substantially of individuals, and (b) whose principal purpose is to receive deposits from, and make loans to, its members; ( coopérative de crédit locale ou coopérative locale ) member , in respect of an association, means a person who is a member of the association; ( Version anglaise seulement ) members register means the register referred to in section 49; ( registre des associés ) membership share means an interest in the equity of an association that confers the rights referred to in subsection 67(2); ( parts sociales ) Minister means the Minister of Finance; ( ministre ) minor has the same meaning as in the applicable provincial law and in the absence of any such law has the same meaning as the word “child” in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child adopted in the United Nations General Assembly on November 20, 1989; ( mineur ) officer means (a) in relation to a body corporate, a chief executive officer, president, vice-president, secretary, controller, treasurer and any other natural person designated as an officer of the body corporate by by-law or by resolution of the directors of the body corporate, and (b) in relation to any other entity, any natural person designated as an officer of the entity by by-law, by resolution of the members thereof or otherwise; ( dirigeant ) order form , in respect of a security, means a security in order form as determined in accordance with subsection 90(3); ( titre à ordre ) ordinary resolution means a resolution passed by a majority of the votes cast by or on