Exemption from Deposit Insurance By-Law (Prescribed Deposits)

2 For the purposes of subsection 26.01(3) of the Act, a prescribed deposit is a deposit of less than $150,000 that is taken by a federal member institution that has made an application under section 26.02 of that Act from

• (a) Her Majesty in right of Canada or in right of a province, an agent of Her Majesty in either of those rights, including a municipal or public body empowered to perform a function of government in Canada, or an entity controlled by Her Majesty in either of those rights;

• (b) the government of a foreign country or any political subdivision of that country, an agency of the government of a foreign country or any political subdivision of that country, or an entity that is controlled by the government of a foreign country or any political subdivision of that country;

• (c) an international agency of which Canada is a member, including the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Caribbean Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and any other international regional bank of which Canada is a member, and an international agency of which Canada is a member that is a member of the World Bank Group;

• (d) a financial institution as defined in section 2 of the Bank Act;

• (e) a pension fund that is maintained in respect of a pension plan registered for income tax purposes and that has total assets under administration of more than $100 million at the time the first deposit transaction is made;

• (f) a mutual fund that is regulated under an Act of the legislature of a province or under the laws of a jurisdiction outside Canada and the assets of which are managed by a person that has total assets under their management of more than $10 million at the time the first deposit transaction is made;

• (g) an entity that, at the time the first deposit transaction is made, has for the fiscal year immediately preceding that deposit transaction, gross revenues of more than $5 million; or

• (h) any other entity, where the deposit facilitates the provision of the following services by the federal member institution to the entity, namely,

  • (i) lending money,

  • (ii) dealing in foreign exchange, or

  • (iii) dealing in securities, other than debt obligations of the federal member institution.