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Online Undertakings Registration Regulations (SOR/2023-203)

Regulations are current to 2024-11-11

Online Undertakings Registration Regulations

SOR/2023-203

BROADCASTING ACT

Registration 2023-09-29

Online Undertakings Registration Regulations

Whereas, under subsection 10(3)Footnote a of the Broadcasting ActFootnote b, a copy of the proposed Online Undertakings Registration Regulations, substantially in the annexed form, was published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, on May 20, 2023, and a reasonable opportunity was given to persons carrying on broadcasting undertakings and other interested persons to make representations to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission with respect to the proposed Regulations;

Therefore, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission makes the annexed Online Undertakings Registration Regulations under subsection 10(1)Footnote c of the Broadcasting ActFootnote b.

Gatineau, September 27, 2023

Le secrétaire général du Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes,
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Claude Doucet
Secretary General, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission

Interpretation

Marginal note:Definition of operator

 In these Regulations, operator means a person who carries on an online undertaking to which the Broadcasting Act applies.

Registration

Marginal note:Registration return

 An operator must register their online undertaking by submitting to the Commission, within 30 days after the day on which they begin to carry on the undertaking, a registration return that contains the following information:

  • (a) the online undertaking’s name;

  • (b) the operator’s name, mailing address, phone number and email address;

  • (c) if different than the contact information filed under paragraph (b), contact information for a contact person for the operator, such as their name, title, mailing address, phone number and email address;

  • (d) the place where the operator is incorporated or otherwise formed, if any, and the location of their head office; and

  • (e) the broadcasting services offered by the online undertaking.

Marginal note:Request for additional information

  •  (1) If it appears to the Commission that a registration return is incorrect or incomplete, the Commission may request that the operator submit any information that is necessary to correct or complete the registration return.

  • Marginal note:Submission of additional information

    (2) The operator must submit the requested information to the Commission as soon as feasible.

Marginal note:Updates to registration return

 An operator must notify the Commission of any change to information previously submitted by submitting the updated information within 30 days after the day on which the change occurs.

Marginal note:Request for deregistration

  •  (1) An operator must submit a request to deregister their online undertaking within 30 days after the day on which they cease to carry on the undertaking.

  • Marginal note:Deregistration

    (2) An online undertaking may be deregistered if, after an attempt to contact the operator using the information on file, the Commission is unable to verify that the operator continues to carry on the undertaking.

Marginal note:Electronic submission

 All information that is submitted under these Regulations must be submitted electronically in the format specified by the Commission.

Transitional Provision

Marginal note:Registration deadline — existing undertaking

 If an operator began carrying on an online undertaking before the day on which these Regulations come into force, the operator must register the undertaking by submitting to the Commission, within 60 days after that day, a registration return that contains the information referred to in section 2.

Coming into Force

Marginal note:Registration

 These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.


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