Bank Act

Marginal note:Change in status

• 904 (1) If a body corporate that is an eligible financial institution other than a bank controls, within the meaning of paragraph 3(1)(d), a bank holding company with equity of eight billion dollars or more and the body corporate subsequently ceases to be an eligible financial institution, the body corporate must do all things necessary to ensure that, on the day that is one year after the day it ceased to be an eligible financial institution,

  • (a) it does not control, within the meaning of paragraph 3(1)(d), the bank holding company; and

  • (b) it is not a major shareholder of the bank holding company.

• Marginal note:Extension

  (2) If general market conditions so warrant and the Minister is satisfied that the body corporate has used its best efforts to be in compliance with subsection (1) on the required day, the Minister may specify a later day as the day from and after which it must comply with that subsection.