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Provisions similar to s. 210 of the UK Companies Act 1948 were first introduced into Canadian law through the 1975 passage of the Canada Business Corporations Act. [1] It incorporated recommendations made in 1962 by the UK Jenkins Committee on Company Law for removing the linkage of the remedy with that of winding-up and for broadening its scope. [2]
In Canada every federally regulated financial institution is required by law to have a complaint handling process (CHP), a document outlining the process that the financial institution makes available to consumers who wish to lodge a complaint. Every CHP must include certain steps, including referral to ombud services and government regulatory ...
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is a financial intelligence and enforcement agency of the United States Treasury Department. It administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions in support of U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives. [ 2 ]
The Federation of Law Societies of Canada (French: Fédération des ordres professionnels de juristes du Canada) is the national association of the 14 Canadian regulators of the legal profession. The 14 law societies are mandated by the provinces and territories to regulate the legal profession in the public interest.
In this list of financial regulatory and supervisory authorities, central banks are only listed where they act as direct supervisors of individual financial firms, and competition authorities and takeover panels are not listed unless they are set up exclusively for financial services.
The Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA, French: Loi sur la corruption d’agents publics étrangers) is an anti-corruption law in force in Canada.It was passed in 1999, ratifying the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and is often referred to as the Canadian equivalent to the United States' Foreign Corrupt ...
Signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on December 19, 1977 The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 ( FCPA ) ( 15 U.S.C. § 78dd-1 , et seq. ) is a United States federal law that prohibits U.S. citizens and entities from bribing foreign government officials to benefit their business interests.
The Service was a complaints-handling body, quasi-independent of the Society. It was part of the Law Society, but operated independently. [citation needed] The services offered to consumers were confidential and free at the point of use, the profession having rejected the idea of charging a flat fee as do some other professional complaints services, for example, that of architects.