Bank Act — B-1.01 427
ss a notice of intention signed by or on behalf of the person giving the security was registered in the appropriate agency not more than three years immediately before the security was given; (b) registration of a notice of intention may be cancelled by registration in the appropriate agency in which the notice of intention was registered of a certificate of release signed on behalf of the bank named in the notice of intention stating that every security to which the notice of intention relates has been released or that no security was given to the bank, as the case may be; (c) every person, on payment of the fee prescribed pursuant to subsection (6), is entitled to have access through the agent to any system of registration, notice of intention or certificate of release kept by or in the custody of the agent; (d) any person desiring to ascertain whether a notice of intention given by a person is registered in an agency may inquire by sending a prepaid telegram or written communication addressed to the agent, and it is the duty of the agent, in the case of a written inquiry, only if it is accompanied by the payment of the fee prescribed pursuant to subsection (6), to make the necessary examination of the information contained in the system of registration and of the relevant documents, if any, and to reply to the inquirer stating the name of the bank mentioned in any such notice of intention, which reply shall be sent by mail unless a telegraphic reply is requested, in which case it shall be sent at the expense of the inquirer; and (e) evidence of registration in an agency of a notice of intention or a certificate of release and of the place, date, time and serial number, if any, of its registration may be given by the production of a copy of the notice of intention or certificate of release duly certified by the agent to be a true copy thereof without proof of the signature or of the official character of the agent. Definitions (5) In subsections (4) and (6), agency means, in a province, the office of the Bank of Canada or its authorized representative but does not include its Ottawa office, and in Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut means the office of the clerk of the court of each of those territories respectively; ( agence ) agent means the officer in charge of an agency, and includes any person acting for that officer; ( agent ) appropriate agency means (a) the agency for the province in which is located the place of business of the person by whom or on whose behalf a notice of intention is signed, (b) if that person has more than one place of business in Canada and the places of business are not in the same province, the agency for the province in which is located the principal place of business of that person, or (c) if that person has no place of business, the agency for the province in which the person resides, and in respect of any notice of intention registered before the day this Part comes into force, means the office in which registration was required to be made by the law in force at the time of such registration; ( agence appropriée ) notice of intention means a notice of intention in the prescribed form or in a form to the like effect, and includes a notice of intention registered before the day this Part comes into force, in the form and registered in the manner required by the law in force at the time of the registration of the notice of intention; ( préavis ) principal place of business means (a) in the case of a body corporate incorporated by or under an Act of Parliament or the legislature of a province, the place where, according to the body corporate’s charter, memorandum of association or by-laws, the head office of the body corporate in Canada is situated, and (b) in the case of any other body corporate, the place at which a civil process in the province in which the loans or advances will be made can be served on the body corporate; ( principal établissement ) system of registration means a