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 a province; ( institution étrangère ) former-Act company means a body corporate referred to in paragraph 13(1)(b); ( société antérieure ) former-Act society means a body corporate referred to in paragraph 13(2)(b); ( société de secours antérieure ) form of proxy means a written or printed form that, when completed and executed by or on behalf of a shareholder or a policyholder, or, in the case of a fraternal benefit society, a member, constitutes a proxy; ( formulaire de procuration ) fraternal benefit society means a body corporate (a) that is without share capital, (b) that has a representative form of government, and (c) that was incorporated for fraternal, benevolent or religious purposes, including the provision of insurance benefits solely to its members or the spouses, common-law partners or children of its members; ( société de secours mutuel ) going-private transaction means a going-private transaction as defined in the regulations; ( transaction de fermeture ) guarantee includes a letter of credit; ( garantie ) head office means (a) in relation to a company, the office required to be maintained by the company under section 260, (b) in relation to a society, the office required to be maintained by the society under section 544, and (c) in relation to an insurance holding company, the office required to be maintained by the insurance holding company under section 868; ( 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, and (b) in respect of the ownership of a share, the shareholder of the share within the meaning of section 7; ( 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 ) 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 a company or an insurance holding company, means a person who applied for letters patent to incorporate the company or insurance holding company, as the case may be; ( fondateur ) infrastructure asset means a physical asset, including a long-lived physical asset that supports the delivery of public services, prescribed by regulation; ( infrastructure ) insurance holding company means a body corporate that is incorporated or formed under Part XVII; ( société de portefeuille d’assurances ) issuer , in respect of a security, means the entity that issues or issued the security; ( émetteur ) 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 ) life company means a company or a provincial company that is permitted to insure risks falling within the class of life insurance, other than a company or a provincial company that is also permitted to insure risks falling within any other class of insurance other than accident and sickness insurance, credit protection insurance and other approved products insurance; ( société d’assurance-vie ) marine company means a company that is incorporated for the sole purpose of insuring risks within the class of marine insurance; ( société d’assurance maritime ) 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, 19