MHHS · Business Corporations Act
Part 4 — Registered Office, Agent for Service, Records and Seal
24 Form of records
prepared and maintained may be in a bound or loose-leaf form or in
a photographic film form, or may be entered or recorded by any
system of mechanical or electronic data processing or any other
information storage device that is capable of reproducing any
required information in legible written form within a reasonable
time.
(2) If a person is entitled to examine any register or record that is
maintained by a corporation in a form other than a written form and
makes a request of the corporation to do so, the corporation shall
(a) make available to that pe rson within a reasonable time a
reproduction of the text of the register or record in legible
written form, or
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(b) provide facilities to enable that person to examine the text of
the register or record in an legible written form otherwise
than by providing a reproduction of that text,
and shall allow that person to make copies of that register or
record.
(3) A corporation and its agents shall take reasonable precautions
to
(a) prevent loss or destruction of,
(b) prevent falsification of entries in, and
(c) facilitate detection and correction of inaccuracies in,
the registers and other records required by this Act to be prepared
and maintained.
(4) A person who, without reasonable cause, contravenes this
section is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of not more than
$5000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than 6 months or
to both.
1981 cB-15 s22
December 2023
financial assistance, 45
financial statements
distribution, 159
distribution, waiver of right to
receive, 156(3), 159(3)
subsidiaries, inspection, time, 157
liability, 27(2), 46
lists of shareholders
access to corporate records, 23
compilation, contents, 137
inspection, time, 137(4)
uses, restrictions, 23(11-12)
pre-emptive rights, 30
record dates
determination, 133
shareholder lists, preparation, 137
requisitions, meetings, 142
resolutions, 141
restrictions, 32
rights
more than one class of shares,
26(4-6), 48(10)
one class of shares, 26(3)
transfers
commissions, authorization, 42
reporting issuer, restrictions, 48(9)
unanimous shareholder agreements
amendment, 146(8)
contents, 146
defined, 1(jj)
offerors and offerees, rights, 195
powers, duties and liability under,
146
purchase without knowledge, 146
voting requirements, under Act,
application, 6(3)
waiver of business interests, 16.1
voting
agreements re, 145
amalgamations, 183(4)
articles, amendment proposals,
class votes, 176
bodies corporate or associations,
139
corporations holding shares in self
or parent restrictions, 33(3)
electronic means, 140(4-5)
entitlement, 134(3), 137, 139
fractional shares, 48(14)
joint shareholders, 139(4)
one class of shares, 26(3)(a)
procedure, 140
proxyholders, rights, 148, 152
registrants, 153
scrip certificate holders, 48(15)
voting shares, defined, 126(c)
waiver of business interests, 16.1
shareholders' meetings. See also
shareholders
adjournment
lack of quorum, 138(3), 143
notice, 134(4)
amalgamation agreements, approval,
183
annual
auditors, appointment,
remuneration, 162
business transactions deemed
special business, 134(6)
calling, 132
directors, election, 106(3)
dispensing with auditor, 163
financial statements, 155, 156
proposals, eligibility, 136
special business, notice, 134(7)
auditors, attendance, notice, 168(1-
2)
continuance outside Alberta, 189(1)-
(2)
court, meeting called by, 143
directors
attendance at meetings, 110
nominations, 136(4)
removals or resignations, 109-110
electronic means, 131, 255(5)-(6)
land disposition, approval, 190
liquidation and dissolution,
voluntary, proposals, notice,
212(2)
minutes, resolutions, 141(3)
notice
amalgamations, approval, 183(2)
amendments of articles, proposals,
175
continuance outside Alberta,
189(2)