Insurance Companies Act

Marginal note:Common shares

• 64 (1) A company, other than a mutual company, shall have one class of shares, to be designated as “common shares”, which are non-redeemable and in which the rights of the holders thereof are equal in all respects, and those rights include

  • (a) the right to vote at all meetings of shareholders except where only holders of a specified class of shares, or policyholders, are entitled to vote;

  • (b) the right to receive dividends declared on those shares; and

  • (c) the right to receive the remaining property of the company on dissolution that pertains to shareholders.

• Marginal note:Designations of shares

  (2) No company shall designate more than one class of its shares as “common shares” or any variation of that term.

• (3) [Repealed, 2012, c. 5, s. 124]

• Marginal note:Continued company

  (4) A body corporate continued as a company under this Act that is not in compliance with subsection (2) on the date letters patent continuing it as a company are issued shall, within twelve months after that date, redesignate its shares to comply with that subsection.