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RTA Residential Tenancies Act

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Part 1 — Licensing of Insurers and Reciprocal Insurance Exchanges Subpart 1 Licensing of Insurers Insurer's Duty to be Licensed

21 Names

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(1) No insurer may be licensed with a name that does not meet
the requirements of section 211(1) and the regulations under
section 212.
(2) Subject to this Act and the regulations, an insurer may be
licensed with a name in an English form, a French form, an English
form and a French form or a combined English and French form,
and it may be legally designated in Alberta by any such name.
(3) Where an insurer has a name that contravenes subsection (1),
the Minister may license the insurer if it undertakes either to
change its name to a name that does not contravene subsection (1)
or to carry on business in Alberta under a name that does not
contravene subsection (1).
(4) Where, through inadvertence or otherwise, an insurer becomes
licensed with a name that contravenes subsection (1), the Minister
may order as a condition of being licensed that the insurer carry on
business under a name specified in the order.
1999 cI-5.1 s21
22 Repealed 2005 c27 s7.