Canada Pension Plan (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-8)

Act current to 2013-04-29 and last amended on 2013-04-01. Previous Versions

Marginal note:Limitation period
  •  (1) A prosecution for an offence under this Act may be commenced at any time within, but not later than, five years after the time when the subject-matter of the prosecution arose.

  • Marginal note:Officers, etc., of corporations

    (2) Where a corporation commits an offence under this Act, every officer, director or agent of the corporation who directed, authorized, assented to, acquiesced in or participated in the commission of the offence is a party to and guilty of the offence and is liable on conviction to the punishment provided for the offence whether or not the corporation has been prosecuted or convicted.

  • Marginal note:Information or complaint

    (3) Subsection 41(6) applies with respect to an information or complaint under any of the provisions of this Act other than Part I, as though for the reference therein to the Canada Revenue Agency and the Minister thereof there were substituted a reference to the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development and the Minister.

  • R.S., 1985, c. C-8, s. 103;
  • 1996, c. 11, s. 97;
  • 1999, c. 17, s. 111;
  • 2005, c. 35, s. 66, c. 38, s. 138;
  • 2012, c. 19, s. 695.

Availability of Information

Marginal note:Definitions
  •  (1) The following definitions apply in this section and sections 104.1 and 105.

    “administration”

    « mise en oeuvre »

    “administration” includes the development, operation, evaluation and enforcement of policies and programs.

    “federal institution”

    « institution fédérale »

    “federal institution” means a department or any other body referred to in Schedule I, I.1, II or III to the Financial Administration Act.

    “public officer”

    « fonctionnaire public »

    “public officer” means an officer or employee of a federal institution, or a prescribed individual or a member of a prescribed class of individuals.

  • Marginal note:Interpretation

    (2) The definition of a word or expression in subsection (1) does not affect its interpretation in any other provision of this Act.

  • (3) [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 293]

  • R.S., 1985, c. C-8, s. 104;
  • R.S., 1985, c. 30 (2nd Supp.), s. 53, c. 18 (3rd Supp.), s. 30;
  • 1991, c. 44, s. 25;
  • 1992, c. 1, s. 25, c. 48, s. 28;
  • 1995, c. 33, s. 43;
  • 1996, c. 11, ss. 49, 97, c. 16, s. 61, c. 23, ss. 187, 189;
  • 1997, c. 40, s. 88;
  • 2003, c. 22, s. 129;
  • 2005, c. 35, s. 45;
  • 2012, c. 19, s. 293.