1 (1) In this Act, “administrative penalty” means an administrative penalty imposed under section 29.0.1; (“pénalité administrative”) “arrears” means a debt that is past due and that meets the criteria, if any, that are prescribed; (“en souffrance”) “assessor” means a person designated in writing by the Registrar as authorized to make an order under section 29.0.1 imposing an administrative penalty; (“évaluateur”) “collection agency” means, (a) a person, other than a collector, who obtains or arranges for payment of money owing to another person or who holds oneself out to the public as providing such a service, (b) any person who sells or offers to sell forms or letters represented to be a collection system or scheme, (c) a person, other than a collector, who provides debt settlement services, or (d) a person who purchases debts that are in arrears and collects them; (“agence de recouvrement”) “collector” means an individual employed, appointed or authorized by a collection agency to collect debts for the agency, to deal with or trace debtors for the agency or to provide debt settlement services to debtors on behalf of the agency; (“agent de recouvrement”) “debt settlement services” means offering or undertaking to act for a debtor in arrangements or negotiations with the debtor’s creditors or receiving money from a debtor for distribution to the debtor’s creditors, where the services are provided in consideration of a fee, commission or other remuneration that is payable by the debtor; (“services de règlement de dette”) “debt settlement services agreement” means an agreement under which a collection agency provides debt settlement services to a debtor; (“convention de services de règlement de dette”) “Director” means the Director under the Ministry of Consumer and Business Services Act; (“directeur”) “investigator” means an investigator appointed under subsection 15 (1); (“enquêteur”) “Minister” means the Minister of Government and Consumer Services or whatever other member of the Executive Council to whom administration for this Act is assigned under the Executive Council Act; (“ministre”) “Ministry” means the ministry of the Minister; (“ministère”) “prescribed” means prescribed by this Act or the regulations; (“prescrit”) “registered” means registered under this Act, and “registration” has a corresponding meaning; (“inscrit”, “inscription”) “registrant” means a collection agency that is registered; (“personne inscrite”) “Registrar” means the Registrar of Collection Agencies; (“registrateur”) “regulations” means the regulations made under this Act; (“règlements”) “Tribunal” means the Licence Appeal Tribunal. (“Tribunal”)  R.S.O. 1990, c. C.14, s. 1 (1); 1999, c. 12, Sched. G, s. 17 (1); 2000, c. 2, s. 1; 2000, c. 26, Sched. B, s. 6; 2001, c. 9, Sched. D, s. 13; 2006, c. 34, s. 6 (2, 3); 2009, c. 33, Sched. 10, s. 3 (1, 2); 2013, c. 13, Sched. 1, s. 2; 2017, c. 5, Sched. 2, s. 1. Note:  Despite the amendments made by the Statutes of Ontario, 2000, chapter 2, section 1, subsection (1), as it read immediately before April 12, 2000, continues to apply to individuals and corporations with respect to the time period before April 12, 2000.  See:  2000, c. 2, s. 5. Deemed control (2) For the purposes of this Act, a corporation shall be deemed to be controlled by another person or corporation or by two or more corporations if, (a) equity shares of the first-mentioned corporation carrying more than 50 per cent of the votes for the election of directors are held, otherwise than by way of security only, by or for the benefit of such other person or corporation or by or for the benefit of such other corporations; and (b) the votes carried by such securities are sufficient, if exercised, to elect a majority of the board of directors of the first-mentioned corporation.  R.S.O. 1990, c. C.14, s. 1 (2). Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 1999, c. 12, Sched. G, s. 17 (1) - 1/04/2000 2000, c. 2, s. 1 - 12/04/2000; 2000, c. 26, Sched. B, s. 6 - 6/12/2000 2001, c. 9, Sched. D, s. 13 - 29/06/2001 2006, c. 34, s. 6 (1-3) - 1/04/2007 2009, c. 33, Sched. 10, s. 3 (1, 2) - 15/12/2009 2013,  c. 13, Sched.1, s. 2 (1, 2) - 1/01/2015 2017, c. 5, Sched. 2, s. 1 (1, 2, 4) - 01/01/2018; 2017, c. 5, Sched. 2, s. 1 (3) - 13/04/2017