Canada Cooperatives Act

Marginal note:Director’s obligation to keep documents

• 378 (1) Documents that are received and accepted by the Director under this Act or that were received and accepted by a person performing a similar function under prior legislation must be kept by the Director in any form.

• Marginal note:Obligation to furnish

  (2) If documents are kept by the Director otherwise than in written form,

  • (a) the Director must provide any copy required to be provided under subsection 377(2) in intelligible written form; and

  • (b) a report reproduced from those documents, if it is certified by the Director, is admissible in evidence to the same extent as the original documents would have been.

• Marginal note:Time period for keeping and producing documents

  (3) The Director is not required to keep or produce any document or class of documents — other than a certificate and any attached articles or statement received under section 373 and other prescribed documents or prescribed class of documents — after the end of the prescribed period for the keeping or production of the document or class of documents.

• Marginal note:Form of publication

  (4) Information or notices required by this Act to be summarized in a publication generally available to the public or to be published by the Director may be made available to the public or published by a system of mechanical or electronic data processing or any other information storage device that is capable of reproducing any required information or notice in intelligible form within a reasonable time.