CPA · Business Corporations Act
Part 3 — Capacity and Powers
16 Capacity of a corporation
rights, powers and privileges of a natural person.
RSA 2000
(2) A corporation has the capacity to carry on its business, conduct
its affairs and exercise its powers in any jurisdiction outside
Alberta to the extent that the laws of that jurisdiction permit.
1981 cB-15 s15
December 2023
liquidators
appointment, notice, 222(1)(a-b)
final accounting and distribution
applications, 224(4)
name changes, 12(2), 13, 282(2)
officers and directors,
indemnification, 124(3),
124(6)
records or registers, order to rectify
errors or omissions, 244
registered office, 20(2)(a)
Registrar's refusal to file, 246
representative actions, 240
revivals, 208, 210, 247
shareholders' meetings
amalgamations, approval, 183(2)
amendments of articles, proposals,
175
continuance outside Alberta,
189(2)
generally, 134
land disposition, 190(2)
procedure, 133
voluntary liquidation and
dissolution proposals, 212(2)
waiver, 135
shares
purchases without knowledge of
unanimous shareholder
agreements, 146(3-4)
splitting of, 27.1
subsidiaries' records, inspection,
applications to bar, 157(4)
take-over bids, dissenting offerees,
compulsory acquisitions, 196
trust indentures, debt obligations,
default, 89
oaths and affirmations
business corporations
articles of amalgamation, 185(2)
liquidation and dissolution, assets
or property, 212(14)
shareholders' lists, access, 23(9),
23(12)
documents under, 262
trust indentures
debt obligations issuers or
guarantors, compliance, 86-
87
security holder lists, 84
offences and penalties
agent for service, failure to notify
Registrar, 25.1
auditors, failure to attend
shareholders' meetings or
answer questions, 168(4)
contravention, compliance orders,
253(1)
debt obligation holders, lists,
unauthorized use, 84(6)
dissolution, records, failure to
produce, 226
documents under, material facts,
untrue or omission, 251
errors or misstatements in financial
statements, 171(10)
extra-provincial corporations,
contravention, 296
financial documents, failure to file,
160(4)
financial statements, distribution,
non-compliance, 159(2)
names, unauthorized use of terms,
10(3-4)
proxies
failure to file or send circulars,
150(4-5)
failure to send forms, 149(4-5)
proxyholders, directions, non-
compliance, 152(4)
records, non-compliance, 21(9),
24(4)
records access, non-compliance,
23(11)-(12)
securities
registrants, unauthorized voting,
153(8-9)
office. See records offices; registered
office
officers
acts, validity, 116(1)
appointment, powers and duties, 121
complainant, defined, 239(b)
compliance, 122