Competition Act
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 30.14 — Terms and conditions
No record or thing that has been ordered under section 30.13 to be sent to the foreign state mentioned in subsection 30.1(1) shall be so sent until the Minister of Justice is satisfied that the…
Section 30.15 — Approval of request to obtain evidence by video link, etc.
If the Minister of Justice approves a request of a foreign state to compel a person to provide evidence or a statement in respect of conduct that is the subject of the request by means of technology…
Section 30.16 — Order for video link, etc.
A judge to whom an application is made under subsection 30.15(2) may make an order for the taking of evidence or a statement from a person where the judge is satisfied that there are reasonable…
Section 30.17 — Other laws to apply
When a person gives evidence or a statement pursuant to an order made under subsection 30.16(1), the person shall give the evidence or statement as though he or she were physically before the court…
Section 30.18 — Arrest warrant
The judge who made the order under subsection 30.11(1) or 30.16(1) or another judge of the same court may issue a warrant for the arrest of the person named in the order where the judge is satisfied,…
Section 30.19 — Approval of loan request
If the Minister of Justice approves a request of a foreign state under an agreement to have an exhibit that was admitted in evidence in a proceeding in respect of an offence in a court in Canada or…
Section 30.2 — Making of loan order
If the court or the Tribunal, as the case may be, is satisfied that the foreign state has requested the loan for a fixed period and has agreed to comply with the terms and conditions that the court…
Section 30.21 — Variation of loan order
A court or the Tribunal may vary the terms and conditions of any loan order made by it.
Section 30.22 — Copy of order to custodian
A copy of a loan order and of an order varying it shall be delivered by the Commissioner to the Minister of Justice and to the person who had possession of the exhibit when the loan order was made.
Section 30.23 — Presumption of continuity
The burden of proving that an exhibit lent to a foreign state pursuant to a loan order made under subsection 30.2(1) and returned to Canada is not in the same condition as it was when the loan order…
Section 30.24 — Appeal on question of law
An appeal lies, with leave, on a question of law alone, to the court of appeal, within the meaning of section 2 of the Criminal Code , from an order or decision of a judge or a court in Canada made…
Section 30.25 — Evidence
The Minister of Justice shall, on receiving evidence sent by a foreign state in response to a request made by Canada under an agreement, send it promptly to the Commissioner.
Section 30.26 — Foreign records
In a proceeding in respect of which Parliament has jurisdiction, a record or a copy of a record and any affidavit, certificate or other statement pertaining to the record made by a person who has…
Section 30.27 — Foreign things
In a proceeding in respect of which Parliament has jurisdiction, a thing and any affidavit, certificate or other statement pertaining to the thing made by a person in a foreign state as to the…
Section 30.28 — Status of certificate
An affidavit, certificate or other statement mentioned in section 30.26 or 30.27 is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the statements contained in it without proof of the signature…
Section 30.29 — Confidentiality of foreign requests and evidence
No person who performs or has performed duties or functions in the administration or enforcement of this Act shall communicate or allow to be communicated to any other person, except for the purposes…
Section 30.291 — Records or other things already in Commissioner’s possession
For greater certainty, any evidence requested by a foreign state under an agreement may be obtained for the purposes of giving effect to the request only in accordance with the agreement and the…
Section 30.3 — Preservation of informal arrangements
Nothing in this Part shall be construed so as to abrogate or derogate from any arrangement or agreement, other than an agreement under this Part, in respect of cooperation between the Commissioner…
Section 31 — Reduction or removal of customs duties
Whenever, as a result of an inquiry under this Act, a judgment of a court or a decision of the Tribunal, it appears to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council that competition in respect of any…
Section 32 — Powers of Federal Court where certain rights used to restrain trade
In any case where use has been made of the exclusive rights and privileges conferred by one or more patents for invention, by one or more certificates of supplementary protection issued under the…
Section 33 — Interim injunction
On application by or on behalf of the Attorney General of Canada or the attorney general of a province, a court may issue an interim injunction forbidding any person named in the application from…
Section 34 — Prohibition orders
Where a person has been convicted of an offence under Part VI, the court may, at the time of the conviction, on the application of the Attorney General of Canada or the attorney general of the…
Section 35 — Court may require returns
Notwithstanding anything contained in Part VI, where any person is convicted of an offence under that Part, the court before whom the person was convicted and sentenced may, from time to time within…
Section 36 — Recovery of damages
Any person who has suffered loss or damage as a result of conduct that is contrary to any provision of Part VI, or the failure of any person to comply with an order of the Tribunal or another court…
Section 45 — Conspiracies, agreements or arrangements between competitors
Every person commits an offence who, with a competitor of that person with respect to a product, conspires, agrees or arranges to fix, maintain, increase or control the price for the supply of the…
Section 45.1 — Application made under section 76, 79, 90.1 or 92
No proceedings may be commenced under subsection 45(1) or (1.1) against a person on the basis of facts that are the same or substantially the same as the facts on the basis of which an order against…
Section 46 — Foreign directives
Any corporation, wherever incorporated, that carries on business in Canada and that implements, in whole or in part in Canada, a directive, instruction, intimation of policy or other communication to…
Section 47 — Definition of bid-rigging
In this section, bid-rigging means an agreement or arrangement between or among two or more persons whereby one or more of those persons agrees or undertakes not to submit a bid or tender in response…
Section 48 — Conspiracy relating to professional sport
Every one who conspires, combines, agrees or arranges with another person to limit unreasonably the opportunities for any other person to participate, as a player or competitor, in professional sport…
Section 49 — Agreements or arrangements of federal financial institutions
Subject to subsection (2), every federal financial institution that makes an agreement or arrangement with another federal financial institution with respect to the rate of interest on a deposit, the…
Section 50
[Repealed, 2009, c. 2, s. 413]
Section 51
[Repealed, 2009, c. 2, s. 413]
Section 52 — False or misleading representations
No person shall, for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, the supply or use of a product or for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, any business interest, by any means…
Section 52.01 — False or misleading representation — sender or subject matter information
No person shall, for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, any business interest or the supply or use of a product, knowingly or recklessly send or cause to be sent a false or misleading…
Section 52.02 — Assisting foreign states
The Commissioner may, for the purpose of assisting an investigation or proceeding in respect of the laws of a foreign state, an international organization of states or an international organization…
Section 52.1 — Definition of telemarketing
In this section, telemarketing means the practice of communicating orally by any means of telecommunication for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, any business interest or the supply…
Section 53 — Deceptive notice of winning a prize
No person shall, for the purpose of promoting, directly or indirectly, any business interest or the supply or use of a product, send or cause to be sent by electronic or regular mail or by any other…
Section 54 — Double ticketing
No person shall supply a product at a price that exceeds the lowest of two or more prices clearly expressed by him or on his behalf, in respect of the product in the quantity in which it is so…
Section 55 — Definition of multi-level marketing plan
For the purposes of this section and section 55.1, multi-level marketing plan means a plan for the supply of a product whereby a participant in the plan receives compensation for the supply of the…
Section 55.1 — Definition of scheme of pyramid selling
For the purposes of this section, scheme of pyramid selling means a multi-level marketing plan whereby a participant in the plan gives consideration for the right to receive compensation by reason of…
Section 56 to 59
[Repealed, 1999, c. 2, s. 17]
Section 60 — Defence
Section 54 does not apply to a person who prints or publishes or otherwise distributes a representation or an advertisement on behalf of another person in Canada if he or she establishes that he or…
Section 61
[Repealed, 2009, c. 2, s. 417]
Section 62 — Civil rights not affected
Except as otherwise provided in this Part, nothing in this Part shall be construed as depriving any person of any civil right of action.
Section 63
[Repealed, R.S., 1985, c. 19 (2nd Supp.), s. 37]
Section 64 — Obstruction
No person shall in any manner impede or prevent or attempt to impede or prevent any inquiry or examination under this Act. Every person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and…
Section 65 — Contravention of Part II provisions
Every person who, without good and sufficient cause, the proof of which lies on that person, fails to comply with an order made under section 11 and every person who contravenes subsection 15(5) or…
Section 65.1 — Contravention of subsection 30.06(5)
Every person who, without good and sufficient cause, the proof of which lies on that person, contravenes subsection 30.06(5) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction or on conviction…
Section 65.2 — Refusal after objection overruled
Every person who, without good and sufficient cause, the proof of which lies on that person, refuses to answer a question or to produce a record or thing to the person designated under paragraph…
Section 66 — Contravention of order under Part VII.1 or VIII
Every person who contravenes an order made under Part VII.1, except paragraphs 74.1(1)(c) and (d), or under Part VIII, except subsection 79(3.1), is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction on…