Section 178.2 — Excise Tax Act: Application for alternate collection method

A direct seller who is a registrant may apply, in prescribed form containing prescribed information and filed in prescribed manner, to the Minister to have section 178.3 apply to the direct seller. Where a direct seller and a distributor of the direct seller are registrants, they may apply jointly, in prescribed form containing prescribed information and filed in prescribed manner, to the Minister to have section 178.4 apply to the distributor. Where the Minister receives an application under subsection (1) from a direct seller, the Minister may approve in writing the application of section 178.3 to the direct seller, and the Minister shall, in writing, notify the direct seller of the approval and the day on which it becomes effective. Where the Minister receives a joint application under subsection (2) from a direct seller and a distributor of the direct seller, the Minister may approve in writing the application of section 178.4 to the distributor, and the Minister shall, in writing, notify both the distributor and the direct seller of the approval and the day on which it becomes effective. Where, at a time when an approval for the application of section 178.3 to a direct seller would not, but for this subsection, be in effect, an approval granted under subsection (4) in respect of a distributor of the direct seller becomes effective and no other approval under that subsection in respect of a distributor of the direct seller is in effect at that time, the direct seller shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section and sections 178.3 to 178.5, to have been granted an approval under subsection (3) that becomes effective immediately before that time. The Minister may, effective on any day, revoke an approval granted under subsection (3) in respect of a direct seller where an approval granted under subsection (4) in respect of a distributor of the direct seller is not in effect on that day and the direct seller fails to comply with any provision of this Part, or except in the case of an approval deemed under subsection (5) to have been granted, the direct seller requests, in writing, the Minister to revoke the approval, and where the Minister revokes the approval, the Minister shall, in writing, notify the direct seller of the revocation and the day on which it becomes effective. The Minister may revoke an approval granted under subsection (4) in respect of a distributor of a direct seller where the distributor fails to comply with any provision of this Part or the distributor and the direct seller, in writing, jointly request the Minister to revoke the approval, and the Minister shall, in writing, notify both the distributor and the direct seller of the revocation and the day on which it becomes effective. An approval granted under subsection (3) in respect of a direct seller ceases to have effect on the earliest of the day the direct seller ceases to be a registrant, the day an approval granted under subsection (4) in respect of any distributor of the direct seller ceases to have effect and there is no other approval granted under that subsection in respect of any distributor of the direct seller in effect, and the day a revocation of the approval under subsection (6) becomes effective. An approval granted under subsection (4) on the joint application of a direct seller and a distributor of the direct seller ceases to have effect on the earliest of the day the direct seller ceases to be a registrant, the day the distributor ceases to be a registrant, and the day a revocation of the approval under subsection (7) becomes effective.