• (b) the time and place at which, the form and manner in which and the persons to whom information is to be disclosed; and

• (a) the time and place at which and the form and manner in which disclosure is to be made by an authorized foreign bank of

Marginal note:Disclosure of charges

565. An authorized foreign bank shall disclose, at the prescribed time and place and in the prescribed form and manner, to its customers and to the public, the charges applicable to deposit accounts with the authorized foreign bank and the usual amount, if any, charged by it for services normally provided to its customers and to the public.

Marginal note:No increase or new charges without disclosure

• 566. (1) An authorized foreign bank shall not increase any charge applicable to a personal deposit account with the authorized foreign bank or introduce any new charge applicable to a personal deposit account with the authorized foreign bank unless it discloses the charge at the prescribed time and place and in the prescribed form and manner to the customer in whose name the account is kept.

• Marginal note:Mandatory disclosure

  (2) An authorized foreign bank shall not increase any charge for any service that is prescribed in relation to a deposit account, other than a personal deposit account, with the authorized foreign bank, or introduce any new charge for any of those services unless the authorized foreign bank discloses the charge at the prescribed time and place and in the prescribed form and manner to the customer in whose name the account is kept.

Marginal note:Disclosing borrowing costs

• 568. (1) An authorized foreign bank shall not make a loan to a natural person that is repayable in Canada unless the cost of borrowing, as calculated and expressed in accordance with section 569, and other prescribed information have been disclosed by the authorized foreign bank to the borrower at the prescribed time and place and in the prescribed form and manner.

Marginal note:Renewal statement

570.1 If an authorized foreign bank makes a loan in respect of which the disclosure requirements of section 568 apply and the loan is secured by a mortgage on real property, the authorized foreign bank shall disclose to the borrower, at the prescribed time and place and in the prescribed form and manner, any information that is prescribed respecting the renewal of the loan.

Marginal note:Disclosure in advertising

571. No person shall authorize the publication, issue or appearance of any advertisement in Canada relating to arrangements referred to in subsection 570(3), loans, credit cards, payment cards or charge cards, offered to natural persons by an authorized foreign bank, and purporting to disclose prescribed information about the cost of borrowing or about any other matter unless the advertisement discloses prescribed information at the prescribed time and place and in the prescribed form and manner.

Marginal note:Information on contacting Agency

• 574. (1) An authorized foreign bank shall, in accordance with the regulations, at the prescribed time and place and in the prescribed form and manner, provide a person requesting or receiving a product or service from it with prescribed information on how to contact the Agency if the person has a complaint about an arrangement referred to in subsection 570(3), a payment, credit or charge card, the disclosure of or manner of calculating the cost of borrowing in respect of a loan, or about any other obligation of the authorized foreign bank under a consumer provision.

• Marginal note:Disclosure

  (4.1) An authorized foreign bank shall, in accordance with the regulations, disclose the prohibition on coercive tied selling set out in subsection (1) in a statement in plain language that is clear and concise, displayed and available to customers and the public at all of its branches where products or services are offered in Canada, on all of its websites through which products or services are offered in Canada and at all prescribed points of service in Canada.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (4.2) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the purposes of subsection (4.1)

  • (a) respecting the time and place at which, and the form and manner in which, the prohibition on coercive tied selling set out in subsection (1) is to be disclosed, displayed and made available;

  • (b) defining “point of service”; and

  • (c) prescribing points of service.

Marginal note:Affiliates

576.3 An authorized foreign bank shall not enter into any arrangement or otherwise cooperate with any of its representatives, agents or other intermediaries, with any of its affiliates that is controlled by an authorized foreign bank and that is a finance entity as defined in subsection 464(1) or other prescribed entity or with any of the representatives, agents or other intermediaries of such an affiliate, to sell or further the sale of a product or service of the authorized foreign bank or the affiliate in Canada unless

• (a) the affiliate or the representative, agent or other intermediary of the authorized foreign bank or the affiliate, as the case may be, complies, with respect to the product or service, with the consumer provisions that apply to authorized foreign banks — other than section 573.1 — as if they were an authorized foreign bank, to the extent that those provisions are applicable to their activities; and

• (b) the persons who request or receive the product or service have access to the authorized foreign bank’s procedures for dealing with complaints established under this Act.

• (a) has a right of access to any records, cash, assets and security held by or on behalf of an authorized foreign bank; and

Marginal note:Certificate

634.1 On the application of a bank that has been incorporated by a special Act of Parliament, the Superintendent may issue a certificate stating that the bank was incorporated by a special Act of Parliament, and may include with the certificate any information in the Superintendent’s possession that relates to the bank’s incorporation.

• (a) has a right of access to any records, cash, assets and security held by or on behalf of a bank; and

Marginal note:Sunset provision

• 670. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (4), bank holding companies shall not carry on business after the day that is the fifth anniversary of the day on which this section comes into force.

• Marginal note:Extension

  (2) The Governor in Council may, by order, extend by up to six months the time during which bank holding companies may continue to carry on business. No more than one order may be made under this subsection.

• Marginal note:Order not a regulation

  (3) The order is not a regulation for the purposes of the Statutory Instruments Act. However, it shall be published in Part II of the Canada Gazette.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (4) If Parliament dissolves on the fifth anniversary of the day on which this section comes into force, on any day within the six-month period before that anniversary or on any day within an extension under subsection (2), bank holding companies may continue to carry on business until the end of 180 days after the first day of the first session of the next Parliament.

• Marginal note:Number of eligible votes

  (2) A bank holding company with equity of twelve billion dollars or more shall set out in the notice of a meeting the number of eligible votes, as defined under subsection 156.09(1), that may be cast at the meeting as of the record date for determining those shareholders entitled to receive the notice of meeting, or if there are to be separate votes of shareholders at the meeting, the number of eligible votes, as defined in that subsection, in respect of each separate vote to be held at the meeting.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (4) Subsection (2) does not apply to a widely held bank holding company with equity of twelve billion dollars or more or to a widely held bank holding company that controls a bank to which subsection 378(1) applies.

• Marginal note:Restriction

  (3) Despite subsection (1), if the amalgamated bank holding company would be a bank holding company with equity of twelve billion dollars or more, the Minister shall not issue letters patent referred to in that subsection unless the amalgamated bank holding company is

Marginal note:Limitations on share holdings

• 876. (1) No person may be a major shareholder of a bank holding company with equity of twelve billion dollars or more.

• Marginal note:Exception — widely held bank

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a widely held bank that controls, within the meaning of paragraphs 3(1)(a) and (d), the bank holding company with equity of twelve billion dollars or more if it controlled, within the meaning of those paragraphs, the bank holding company on the day the bank holding company’s equity reached twelve billion dollars and it has controlled, within the meaning of those paragraphs, the bank holding company since that day.

• Marginal note:Exception — widely held bank holding company

  (3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a widely held bank holding company that controls, within the meaning of paragraphs 3(1)(a) and (d), the bank holding company with equity of twelve billion dollars or more if the widely held bank holding company controlled, within the meaning of those paragraphs, the bank holding company on the day the bank holding company’s equity reached twelve billion dollars and the widely held bank holding company has controlled, within the meaning of those paragraphs, the bank holding company since that day.

• Marginal note:Exception — insurance holding companies and certain institutions

  (4) Subsection (1) does not apply to any of the following that controls, within the meaning of paragraph 3(1)(d), the bank holding company with equity of twelve billion dollars or more if it controlled, within the meaning of that paragraph, the bank holding company on the day the bank holding company’s equity reached twelve billion dollars and it has controlled, within the meaning of that paragraph, the bank holding company since that day:

  • (a) a widely held insurance holding company;

  • (b) an eligible Canadian financial institution, other than a bank; or

  • (c) an eligible foreign institution.

• Marginal note:Exception — other entities

  (5) Subsection (1) does not apply to an entity that controls, within the meaning of paragraphs 3(1)(a) and (d), the bank holding company with equity of twelve billion dollars or more if the entity is controlled, within the meaning of those paragraphs, by a widely held bank to which subsection (2) applies, or a widely held bank holding company to which subsection (3) applies, that controls the bank holding company.

• Marginal note:Exception — other entities

  (6) Subsection (1) does not apply to an entity that controls, within the meaning of paragraph 3(1)(d), the bank holding company with equity of twelve billion dollars or more if the entity is controlled, within the meaning of that paragraph, by

  • (a) a widely held insurance holding company to which subsection (4) applies that controls the bank holding company;

  • (b) an eligible Canadian financial institution, other than a bank, to which subsection (4) applies that controls the bank holding company; or

  • (c) an eligible foreign institution to which subsection (4) applies that controls the bank holding company.