208 (1) The Minister may make regulations, 1.  prescribing or governing any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed or that is required or permitted to be done in accordance with or as provided in the regulations for which a specific power is not otherwise provided; 2.  respecting and governing the content, form, format and filing of articles, applications and other documents and information filed with or issued by the Director and the form, format and payment of fees; 3.  respecting and governing the manner of completion, submission and acceptance of articles, applications and other documents and information filed with the Director, the payment of fees and the determination of the date of receipt; 4.  designating articles, applications and other documents and information to be filed with the Director, i.  in paper or electronic format, ii.  in electronic format alone, or iii.  in paper format alone; 5.  subject to any terms and conditions specified in the regulation, prescribing and governing documents and information that are required to support articles, applications and other forms approved under section 210 and specifying, for each of the formats designated under paragraph 4 of this subsection, i.  the documents and information that must be filed with the Director, together with articles, applications and other forms approved under section 210, and ii.  the documents and information that must be retained by the corporation and, upon receipt of and in accordance with written notice from the Director, and subject to any terms and conditions imposed by the Director, that must be filed with the Director or given to any other person specified in the notice; 6.  permitting the Director, subject to any terms and conditions imposed by the Director, for each of the formats designated under paragraph 4, i.  to require that a document or information prescribed under subparagraph 5 i be retained by the corporation and, upon receipt of and in accordance with written notice from the Director, be filed with the Director or given to any other person specified in the notice, ii.  to require that a document or information prescribed under subparagraph 5 ii be filed with the Director, together with articles, applications and other forms approved under section 210, and iii.  to require that a document required by this Act to be filed with the Director be retained by the corporation and, upon receipt of and in accordance with written notice from the Director, be filed with the Director or given to any other person specified in the notice; 7.  governing the terms and conditions that the Director may impose pursuant to a regulation made under subparagraph 5 ii or paragraph 6; 8.  respecting and governing the endorsement of articles and applications with a certificate or authorization and the issuance of certificates and authorizations by the Director, including rules respecting the endorsement and issuance by electronic means; 9.  governing the assignment of corporation numbers under section 10; 10.  prescribing restrictions in respect of corporations’ purposes; 11.  governing corporations’ names, including prescribing rules and requirements respecting their form and language, prescribing permitted words, expressions, punctuation and other marks and prescribing prohibited words, expressions, punctuation and other marks; 12.  prescribing the documents relating to names that must be filed with the Director; 13.  governing the retention and destruction of articles, applications and other documents and information filed with the Director, including the form and format in which they must be retained; 14.  governing the form, method and manner in which any notice or other document required or permitted to be made or given under this Act is to be made or given, including rules respecting deemed receipt; 15.  governing the publication of notices to corporations for the purposes of subsection 170 (1); 16.  governing the form of documents and information required or permitted to be made, given, filed, kept or retrieved under this Act, including prescribing rules respecting the making, giving, filing, keeping and retrieval of electronic documents; 17.  prescribing technology standards and requirements for filing electronic documents with and giving electronic documents to a corporation, the members, directors and officers of a corporation or any other person; 18.  prescribing and governing the form, manner and methods of giving notice and giving or filing other documents to or with a corporation, the members, directors and officers of a corporation or any other person, including prescribing rules respecting deemed receipt; 19.  governing the publication of the Ministry’s standard organizational by-laws under subsection 18 (2); 20.  respecting the authorization of any individual by a member corporation or other entity to represent the member at meetings for the purpose of subsection 48 (7); 21.  governing the report to be made by auditors and other persons under section 78, including prescribing the standards, as they exist from time to time, of a prescribed accounting body that must be used for the purposes of Part VII; 22.  governing the financial statements to be approved by the directors under Part VIII, including prescribing the standards, as they exist from time to time, of a prescribed accounting body that must be used for their preparation; 23.  prescribing information to be contained in the registers of directors, officers and members kept by a corporation under subsection 92 (1); 24.  prescribing circumstances for the purpose of clause 170 (2.0.1) (c); 25.  governing waivers and abridgments of time under section 198, including prescribing the manner in which waivers and abridgements of time may be made; 26.  prescribing documents for the purposes of subsection 204.2 (2); 27.  prescribing duties and powers of the Director in addition to those set out in this Act; 28.  designating public servants employed under Part III of the Public Service of Ontario Act, 2006, or classes of them, for the purposes of endorsing and issuing certificates, including certificates as to any fact and certifying true copies of documents required or authorized under this Act; 29.  providing that a person or entity that enters into an agreement under subsection 206.2 (2) is an agent of the Crown and specifying the services and purposes for which the person or entity is considered to be an agent of the Crown; 30.  defining any word or expression used in this Act that has not already been expressly defined in this Act; 31.  prescribing any matter that the Minister considers necessary or advisable for the purposes of this Act; 32.  governing inspections of records under sections 93 and 94, examinations of records under section 95 and of the register of members under section 96, inspections of directors’ consents under section 97 and examinations of financial statements under section 98; 33.  governing transitional matters as the Minister considers necessary or advisable to facilitate the implementation of amendments to this Act made by Schedule 22 to the Less Red Tape, Stronger Economy Act, 2023. 2017, c. 20, Sched. 8, s. 53 (1, 2); 2023, c. 9, Sched. 22, s. 16. Rolling incorporation by reference (2) A regulation made under subsection (1) that incorporates another document by reference may provide that the reference to the document includes amendments made to the document from time to time after the regulation is made. 2017, c. 20, Sched. 8, s. 53 (1). Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 2017, c. 20, Sched. 8, s. 53 (1) - 19/10/2021; 2017, c. 20, Sched. 8, s. 53 (2) - 14/11/2020 2023, c. 9, Sched. 22, s. 16 - 01/10/2023