MHHS · Business Corporations Act
Part 21 — Extra-provincial Corporations and Extra-provincial Matters
288 Agent for service of an extra-provincial corporation
dies or resigns or the agent for service's appointment is revoked,
the extra-provincial corporation shall forthwith send to the
Registrar an appointment in the form required by the Registrar of
an individual as its agent for service and the Registrar shall file the
appointment.
(2) An extra-provincial corporation may in the form required by
the Registrar appoint an individual who is a resident of Alberta as
its alternative agent for service.
(3) An extra-provincial corporation shall send to the Registrar
(a) each appointment b y it of an alternative agent for service,
and
(b) if the alternative agent fo r service dies or resigns or that
agent for service's appointment is revoked, a notice to that
effect,
and the Registrar shall file the appointment or notice, as the case
may be.
(4) An agent for service for an extra-provincial corporation who
intends to resign shall
(a) give not less than 60 days' notice to the extra-provincial
corporation at its head office, and
(b) send a copy of the notice to the Registrar who shall file it.
(5) An agent for service shall forthwith send to the Registrar a
notice in the form required by the Registrar of any change of the
agent for service's address and the Registrar shall file the notice.
(6) An extra-provincial corporation shall ensure that the address of
its agent for service is an office that is
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(a) accessible to the public dur ing normal business hours, and
(b) readily identifiable from t he address or other description
given in the notice referred to in subsection (5) or the
appointment referred to in section 280(2)(c).
(7) A notice or document required or permitted by law to be sent
or served in Alberta on an extra-provincial corporation may be
(a) delivered to its agent for s ervice or to an individual who is
its alternative agent for service according to the Registrar's
records,
(b) delivered to the address , according to the Registrar's
records, of its agent for service, or
(c) sent by registered mail to that address.
(8) A notice or document sent by registered mail to the agent for
service's address in accordance with subsection (7)(c) is deemed to
be received or served at the time it would be delivered in the
ordinary course of mail, unless there are reasonable grounds for
believing that the agent for service did not receive the notice or
document at that time or at all.
(9) An individual whose appointment as an agent for service or
alternative agent for service of an extra-provincial corporation is
filed with the Registrar of Companies immediately before the
commencement of this Act is deemed to be its agent for service or
an alternative agent for service, as the case may be, on the
commencement of this Act.
RSA 2000 cB-9 s288;2020 c25 s1;2021 c18 s68