An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Telecommunications Act (S.C. 2010, c. 23)
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Act current to 2026-03-17 and last amended on 2026-01-01. Previous Versions
Transitional Provisions (continued)
Marginal note:Software updates and upgrades
67 If a computer program was installed on a person’s computer system before section 8 comes into force, the person’s consent to the installation of an update or upgrade to the program is implied until the person gives notification that they no longer consent to receiving such an installation or until three years after the day on which section 8 comes into force, whichever is earlier.
68 [Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]
Amendment to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission Act
69 [Amendment]
Amendments to the Competition Act
70 [Amendments]
71 [Amendment]
72 [Amendment]
73 [Amendment]
74 [Amendments]
75 [Amendment]
76 [Amendments]
77 [Amendment]
78 [Amendment]
79 [Amendment]
80 [Amendment]
81 [Amendment]
Amendments to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
82 [Amendment]
83 [Amendment]
84 [Amendment]
85 [Amendment]
86 [Amendments]
87 [Amendment]
Amendments to the Telecommunications Act
88 [Amendments]
89 (1) [Amendment]
(2) [Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]
90 [Repealed before coming into force, 2008, c. 20, s. 3]
Coming into Force
Marginal note:Order in council
Footnote *91 The provisions of this Act come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.
Return to footnote *[Note: Subsections 12(1), (3) and (4), section 12.1 and subsections 12.2(1) and (3), as enacted by section 83, sections 84 and 85, subsection 86(1) and section 87 in force April 1, 2011, see SI/2011-22; sections 1 to 7, 9 to 46, 52 to 54, 56 to 67 and 69 to 82, subsections 12(2) and 12.2(2), as enacted by section 83, subsection 86(2), section 88 and subsection 89(1) in force July 1, 2014, section 8 in force January 15, 2015, see SI/2013-127; sections 47 to 51, 55, 68, subsection 89(2) and section 90 repealed before coming into force, see 2008, c. 20, s. 3.]
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