RTA · Business Corporations Act
Part 4 — Registered Office, Agent for Service, Records and Seal
20 Registered office, records office, address for service by mail
within Alberta.
(2) A notice of
(a) the registered office,
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(b) a separate records office, if any, and
(c) the post office box designated as the address for service by
mail, if any,
must be sent to the Registrar in the form required by the Registrar
together with the articles of incorporation.
(3) Subject to subsection (4), the directors of the corporation may
at any time
(a) change the address of the r egistered office within Alberta,
(b) designate, or revoke or change a designation of, a records
office within Alberta, or
(c) designate, or revoke or change a designation of, a post of fice
box within Alberta as the address for service by mail of the
corporation.
(4) A post office box designated as the corporation's address for
service by mail shall not be designated as the corporation's records
office or registered office.
(5) A corporation shall notify the Registrar within 15 days after
any change under subsection (3).
(6) The corporation shall ensure that its registered office and its
records office are
(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 (2).
(7) Unless the directors designate a separate records office, the
registered office of a corporation is also its records office.
RSA 2000 cB-9 s20;2021 c18 s6
December 2023
certified copies, 271
copies, 22, 261
filing, constructive notice, 18
proof, 262
refusal to file, 246
duties under, applications for
directions, 245
extra-provincial corporations
agent for service, 288
certificates of compliance, supply,
evidence, 293
certificates of continuance, 188
changes in charter, head office,
directors, 289
fees, exemptions, 277(2)
liquidation notices and returns,
291
name changes, 282(2)
registration
cancellation, 285, 291(2)
extra-provincial registrars,
293.1-293.4
procedure, 284(1)
by pseudonym, approval, 283
reinstatement, 285(3), 286
requirements, 279, 280
returns, 292
shares, applications, 188(11)
fees and charges, credit agreements,
263
liquidation and dissolution
certificates of dissolution,
issuance, 224(5)(a), 224(7)
court supervision, applications,
notice, 212(8-9)
monetary distributions,
applications, 225
voluntary, 212
liquidators
appointment, notice, 222(1)(a)
financial statements, submission,
222(1)(h)
names
changes, 12(2), 13-14
documents, submission, 12(3),
177(2)
number names, assignment, 11
receivers
appointment, notice, 100(a)
financial statements, filing, time,
100(f)
reports, 100(g)
refusal to file, 246
seal, 263(2)
service, 263(3)
unlisted shareholders in unlimited
liability corporations, 15.8
registrars, extra-provincial, 293.1-
293.4
Registrar's Periodical
contents, 264
dissolution
certificates of intent to dissolve,
212(7)(b)(i)
by court order, 214(4)
by Registrar, notice of intent,
213(2)(b)
frequency of publication, 264
liquidation notice, extra-provincial
corporations, 291
liquidator's appointment, 222.1
regulations
business corporations, 266
constrained shares, 174
extra-provincial corporations, 293.3-
293.4, 299
remedies
under Act, 253(3)
business corporations
oppression or unfairness, relief,
applications, 242
representative actions, 240, 241
shareholders, 146(2)(c)
shareholders, unanimous shareholder
agreements, purchase without
knowledge, 146(2)
remuneration
auditors, 162(4)
auditors, court-appointed, 167
directors, liquidation and
dissolution, statutory
declarations, 212(14)(b)
directors, officers or employees, 125
inspectors under Act, 232(1)(a)
receiver-managers, 99(c)
sale of shares, 42