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Bank Act

Version of section 156.04 from 2006-11-28 to 2019-06-20:


Marginal note:Mandatory solicitation

  •  (1) Subject to subsection 140(2) and subsection (2), the management of a bank shall, concurrently with giving notice of a meeting of shareholders, send a form of proxy in prescribed form to each shareholder entitled to receive notice of the meeting.

  • Marginal note:Exception

    (2) The management of a bank is not required to send a form of proxy under subsection (1) if the bank

    • (a) is not a distributing bank; and

    • (b) has 50 or fewer shareholders who are entitled to vote at a meeting, two or more joint holders of a share being counted as one shareholder.

  • 1997, c. 15, s. 10
  • 2005, c. 54, s. 28

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