Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act

Marginal note:Qualifications of directors

• 126 (1) The following persons are disqualified from being a director of a corporation:

  • (a) anyone who is less than 18 years of age;

  • (b) anyone who has been declared incapable by a court in Canada or in another country;

  • (c) a person who is not an individual; and

  • (d) a person who has the status of a bankrupt.

• Marginal note:Membership

  (2) Unless the by-laws otherwise provide, a director of a corporation is not required to be a member of the corporation.

• Marginal note:No alternate directors

  (3) No person shall act for an absent director at a meeting of directors.