Part 2 — Provincial Companies Subpart 1 Status and Powers of Provincial Companies
276 Policyholder and shareholder lists
shareholders of a provincial company, the company must prepare
(a) a list of its participating policyholders entitled to vote at the
meeting, and
(b) a list of its shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting
arranged in alphabetical order and showing the number of
shares held by each shareholder.
(2) If a record date is fixed under section 269(5), the list of
participating policyholders must be prepared not later than the day
on which the meeting is held and, if no record date is fixed under
section 269(5), the list must be prepared on the day on which the
meeting is held.
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(3) If a record date is fixed under section 269(7), the list of
shareholders must be prepared not later than 10 days after that
record date, and if no record date is fixed under section 269(7), the
list must be prepared
(a) at the close of business on the day immediately before the
day on which the notice of the meeting is given, or
(b) if no notice is given, on the day on which the meeting is
held.
(4) A list of participating policyholders or shareholders may be in
electronic form.
(5) Subject to this Act, a person named in a list of participating
policyholders prepared under subsection (1) is entitled to vote at
the meeting to which the list relates unless, after the record date
fixed under section 269(5) or, if no record date is fixed under
section 269(5), after the date on which the list was prepared,
(a) the person has transferred the policy entitling the holder to
vote, in which case the transferee is entitled to vote at the
meeting, or
(b) the policy entitling the person to vote is not in force.
(6) Subject to this Act, a person named in a list of shareholders
prepared under subsection (1) is entitled to vote the shares shown
opposite that person's name at the meeting to which the list relates
unless
(a) the person has transferred the ownership of any of those
shares after the record date fixed under section 269(7), or if
no record date is fixed under section 269(7), after the date
on which the list was prepared, and
(b) the transferee of those shares
(i) produces properly endo rsed share certificates, or
(ii) otherwise establishes that the transferee owns the shares,
and demands, not later than 10 days before the meeting or
such shorter period before the meeting as the bylaws of the
company provide, that the transferee's name be included in
the list before the meeting,
in which case the transferee may vote those transferred shares at
the meeting.
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(7) A participating policyholder or shareholder of a provincial
company may examine the list of shareholders prepared under
subsection (1)
(a) during normal business hours at the company's head office
or, if the company has been authorized to keep its central
securities register at a place other than its head office, at that
other place, and
(b) at the meeting of shareholders for which the list was
prepared.
(8) A participating policyholder or shareholder of a provincial
company may, at the meeting of participating policyholders for
which the list referred to in subsection (1) was prepared, require the
company to verify from that list whether a person identified both
by name and by some other distinguishing feature is entitled to vote
at that meeting.
1999 cI-5.1 s276