Bill C-409
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1st Session, 36th Parliament, 46-47-48 Elizabeth II, 1997-98-99
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The House of Commons of Canada
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BILL C-409 |
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An Act to amend the Canada Post Corporation
Act (letter that cannot be transmitted by
post)
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| R.S., c. C-10;
R.S., c. 1 (2nd
Supp.), c. 1
(4th Supp.);
1992, c. 1;
1993, cc. 17,
34, 44; 1994,
c. 26
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1. The Canada Post Corporation Act is
amended by adding the following after
section 40:
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GOVERNMENT LOGO |
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| Definitions
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40.1 In sections 40.2 and 40.4,
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| ``department'' « ministère »
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``department'' has the same meaning as in
Schedule I of the Financial Administration
Act;
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| ``logo'' « logo »
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``logo'' includes a writing or a logo with a
writing.
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| Government
logo
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40.2 (1) A department may cause to be sent
to the Corporation an application for
registration of a logo reproduced by it, or that
it is intending to reproduce, on the cover of a
letter to be transmitted by post by the
department to a member of the public.
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| Registration
of logo
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(2) Within thirty days after the Corporation
receives an application for registration, it
shall, at no charge, register the logo in a
registry of government logos established by it
and shall cause
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registry
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(3) The registry shall be open to public
inspection at such place and at such
reasonable hours as the Corporation may
determine, and any person is entitled to make
copies or, on payment of the prescribed fee,
obtain copies of the registry.
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| Registry
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40.3 (1) The Governor in Council shall
make regulations
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| Coming into
force
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(2) A regulation made under subsection (1)
to add a logo to the registry maintained by the
Governor in Council shall come into force on
a day that is five days after the date the
regulation is published in the Canada Gazette.
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| Prohibition
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40.4 No person, other than a department,
shall transmit by post or cause to be
transmitted by post a letter bearing on its cover
a logo registered in the registry of government
logos maintained by the Governor in Council
under section 40.3 or a logo that is similar to
such a logo.
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| Offence and
punishment
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40.5 Every person who contravenes section
40.4 is guilty of an offence punishable on
summary conviction and liable
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| Transmission
prohibited
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40.6 (1) Notwithstanding any other section
of this Act, the Corporation shall not accept at
a post office a letter to be transmitted by the
Corporation or transmit a letter where the
Corporation is of the opinion that the letter
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| Disposal of
letters that
cannot be
transmitted by
post
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(2) Notwithstanding any other section of
this Act, the Corporation shall dispose of
letters that it cannot transmit under subsection
(1) in the manner it considers appropriate.
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| Definition
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(3) For the purposes of this section, ``letter''
includes a card and a leaflet.
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2. The portion of section 60 of the Act
before paragraph (a) is replaced by the
following:
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| Punishment
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60. Every person who contravenes any
provision of this Act, other than an offence
under section 40.4, or the regulations or who
commits an offence under any section 48 to 59
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