EX-4 4 a17-3940_1ex4.htm EX-4

Exhibit 4

 

GENERAL BY-LAW

BY-LAW NO. 1

 

A BY-LAW RELATING GENERALLY

TO THE CONDUCT OF THE AFFAIRS

OF

 

JUST ENERGY GROUP INC.

 

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TITLE

 

SECTION

 

PAGE

 

 

 

 

 

INTERPRETATION

 

 

 

5

Definitions

 

1.01

 

5

Divisions

 

1.02

 

6

 

 

 

 

 

BANKING AND SECURITIES

 

 

 

 

Banking Arrangements

 

2.01

 

6

Voting Rights in Other Bodies Corporate

 

2.02

 

6

 

 

 

 

 

EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS

 

 

 

 

Authorized Signing Officers

 

3.01

 

7

Cheques, Drafts and Notes

 

3.02

 

7

Corporate Seal

 

3.03

 

7

Financial Year

 

3.04

 

7

 

 

 

 

 

DIRECTORS

 

 

 

 

Number and Residency of Directors

 

4.01

 

7

Election and Term

 

4.02

 

7

Removal of Directors

 

4.03

 

8

Consent

 

4.04

 

8

Vacation of Office

 

4.05

 

8

Committee of Directors and Lead Director

 

4.06

 

8

Transaction of Business of Committee

 

4.07

 

9

Procedure

 

4.08

 

9

Remuneration and Expenses

 

4.09

 

9

Vacancies

 

4.10

 

9

Action by the Board

 

4.11

 

9

 

 

 

 

 

MEETING OF DIRECTORS

 

 

 

 

Place of Meeting

 

5.01

 

9

Notice of Meeting

 

5.02

 

9

Adjourned Meeting

 

5.03

 

10

Calling of the Meetings

 

5.04

 

10

Regular Meetings

 

5.05

 

10

Chair

 

5.06

 

11

Quorum

 

5.07

 

11

Canadian Representation at Meetings

 

5.08

 

11

Voting

 

5.09

 

11

Meeting by Telephone

 

5.10

 

11

Resolution in Lieu of Meeting

 

5.11

 

11

Amendments to the Act

 

5.12

 

12

 

 

 

 

 

PROTECTION OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS AND OTHERS

 

 

 

 

Conflict of Interest

 

6.01

 

12

Limitation of Liability

 

6.02

 

12

Indemnity

 

6.03

 

13

Insurance

 

6.04

 

13

 

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OFFICERS

 

 

 

 

Election or Appointment

 

7.01

 

14

Chair of the Board

 

7.02

 

14

Lead Director

 

7.03

 

14

President

 

7.04

 

14

Vice-President

 

7.05

 

14

Secretary

 

7.06

 

14

Treasurer

 

7.07

 

15

General Manager or Manager

 

7.08

 

15

Powers and Duties of Other Officers

 

7.09

 

15

Variation of Powers and Duties

 

7.10

 

15

Vacancies

 

7.11

 

15

Remuneration and Removal

 

7.12

 

15

Agents and Attorneys

 

7.13

 

15

Conflict of Interest

 

7.14

 

16

Fidelity Bonds

 

7.15

 

16

 

 

 

 

 

SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETINGS

 

 

 

 

Annual Meetings

 

8.01

 

16

Special Meetings

 

8.02

 

16

Place of Meetings

 

8.03

 

16

Participation in Meeting by Electronic Means

 

8.04

 

16

Meeting Held by Electronic Means

 

8.05

 

16

Record Date for Notice

 

8.06

 

16

Notice of Meeting

 

8.07

 

17

Right to Vote

 

8.08

 

17

List of Shareholders Entitled to Notice

 

8.09

 

17

Meetings Without Notice

 

8.10

 

17

Waiver of Notice

 

8.11

 

18

Chair, Secretary and Scrutineers

 

8.12

 

18

Persons Entitled to be Present

 

8.13

 

18

Quorum

 

8.14

 

18

Proxyholders and Representatives

 

8.15

 

18

Time for Deposit of Proxies

 

8.16

 

19

Joint Shareholders

 

8.17

 

19

Votes to Govern

 

8.18

 

19

Show of Hands

 

8.19

 

19

Ballots

 

8.20

 

19

Adjournment

 

8.21

 

20

Resolution in Lieu of a Meeting

 

8.22

 

20

Only One Shareholder

 

8.23

 

20

 

 

 

 

 

SHARES

 

 

 

 

Non-Recognition of Trusts

 

9.01

 

20

Certificates

 

9.02

 

20

Replacement of Share Certificates

 

9.03

 

20

Joint Holders

 

9.04

 

21

Allotment of Shares

 

9.05

 

21

Commissions

 

9.06

 

21

 

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TRANSFER OF SECURITIES

 

 

 

 

Registration of Transfer

 

10.01

 

21

Transfer Agents and Registrar

 

10.02

 

21

Securities’ Registers

 

10.03

 

22

Deceased Shareholders

 

10.04

 

22

 

 

 

 

 

DIVIDENDS AND RIGHTS

 

 

 

 

Dividends

 

11.01

 

22

Dividend Cheques

 

11.02

 

22

Non-Receipt of Cheques

 

11.03

 

22

Unclaimed Dividends

 

11.04

 

23

Record Date for Dividends and Rights

 

11.05

 

23

 

 

 

 

 

INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO SHAREHOLDERS

 

 

 

 

Confidential Information

 

12.01

 

23

Conditions of Access to Information

 

12.02

 

23

Registered Office and Records Office

 

12.03

 

23

 

 

 

 

 

NOTICES

 

 

 

 

Method of Giving Notices

 

13.01

 

23

Notice to Joint Shareholders

 

13.02

 

24

Computation of Time

 

13.03

 

24

Persons Entitled by Death or Operation of Law

 

13.04

 

24

Non-Receipt of Notices

 

13.05

 

24

Omissions and Errors

 

13.06

 

24

Signature on Notices

 

13.07

 

25

Waiver of Notice

 

13.08

 

25

 

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS

 

 

 

 

Directors to Require Surrender of Share Certificates

 

14.01

 

25

Severability

 

14.02

 

26

 

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GENERAL BY-LAW

BY-LAW NO. 1

 

A BY-LAW RELATING GENERALLY TO THE CONDUCT OF THE AFFAIRS OF

 

JUST ENERGY GROUP INC.

 

(hereinafter called the “Corporation”)

 

IT IS HEREBY ENACTED as a by-law of the Corporation as follows:

 

DIVISION ONE

INTERPRETATION

 

1.01                                                                        In the by-laws of the Corporation, unless the context otherwise specifies or requires:

 

a.                                      “Act” means the Canada Business Corporations Act, as from time to time amended and every statute that may be substituted therefore and, in the case of such substitution, any references in the by-laws of the Corporation to provisions of the Act shall be read as references to the substituted provisions therefore in the new statute or statutes;

 

b.                                      “appoint” includes “elect” and vice versa;

 

c.                                       “board” means the board of directors of the Corporation;

 

d.                                      “by-laws” means this by-law and all other by-laws of the Corporation from time to time in force and effect;

 

e.                                       “meeting of shareholders” includes an annual or other general meeting of shareholders and a special meeting of shareholders;

 

f.                                        “Regulations” means the regulations under the Act as published or from time to time amended and every regulation that may be substituted therefore and, in the case of such substitution, any references in the by-laws of the Corporation to provisions of the Regulations shall be read as references to the substituted provisions therefore in the new regulations;

 

g.                                       “signing officer” means, in relation to any instrument, any person authorized to sign the same on behalf of the Corporation by virtue of section 3.01 of this by-law or by a resolution passed pursuant thereto; and

 

h.                                      “special meeting of shareholders” means a meeting of any particular class or classes of shareholders and a meeting of all shareholders entitled to vote at any annual meeting of shareholders at which special business is to be transacted.

 

Save as aforesaid, all terms which are contained in the by-laws of the Corporation and which are defined in the Act or the Regulations shall, unless the context otherwise specifies or requires, have the meanings given to such terms in the Act or the Regulations. Words importing the singular number include the plural and vice versa; the masculine shall include the feminine; and the word “person” shall include an individual, partnership, association, body corporate, body politic, trustee, executor, administrator and legal representative.

 

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Headings used in the by-laws are inserted for reference purposes only and are not to be considered or taken into account in construing the terms or provisions thereof or to be deemed in any way to clarify, modify or explain the effect of any such terms or provisions.

 

1.02                                                                        Divisions

 

The board may cause the business and operations of the Corporation or any part thereof to be divided into one or more divisions upon such basis, including without limitation types of business or operations, geographical territories, product lines or goods or services, as may be considered appropriate in each case. In connection with any such division the board or, subject to any direction by the board, the president may authorize from time to time, upon such basis as may be considered appropriate in each case:

 

(a)                                 Subdivision and Consolidation — the further division of the business and operations of any such division into sub-units and the consolidation of the business and operations of any such divisions and sub-units;

 

(b)                                 Name — the designation of any such division or sub-unit by, and the carrying on the business and operations of any such division or sub-unit under, a name other than the name of the Corporation; provided that the Corporation shall set out its name in legible characters in all places required by law; and

 

(c)                                  Officers — the appointment of officers for any such division or sub-unit, the determination of their powers and duties, and the removal of any of such officers so appointed, provided that any such officers shall not, as such, be officers of the Corporation.

 

DIVISION TWO

BANKING AND SECURITIES

 

2.01                                                                        Banking Arrangements

 

The banking business of the Corporation including, without limitation, the borrowing of money and the giving of security therefore, shall be transacted with such banks, trust companies or other bodies corporate or organizations or any other persons as may from time to time be designated by or under the authority of the board. Such banking business or any part thereof shall be transacted under such agreements, instructions and delegations of power as the board may from time to time prescribe or authorize.

 

2.02                                                                        Voting Rights in Other Bodies Corporate

 

The signing officers of the Corporation may execute and deliver instruments of proxy and arrange for the issuance of voting certificates or other evidence of the right to exercise the voting rights attaching to any securities held by the Corporation. Such instruments, certificates or other evidence shall be in favour of such person or persons as may be determined by the person signing or arranging for them. In addition, the board may direct the manner in which and the person or persons by whom any particular voting rights or class of voting rights may or shall be exercised.

 

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DIVISION THREE

EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS

 

3.01                                                                        Authorized Signing Officers

 

Unless otherwise authorized by the directors, deeds, transfers, assignments, contracts, obligations, certificates and other instruments may be signed on behalf of the Corporation by any one officer or director of the Corporation. In addition, the board may from time to time direct the manner in which the person or persons by whom any particular instrument or class of instruments may or shall be signed. Any signing officer may affix the corporate seal to any instrument requiring the same, but no instrument is invalid merely because the corporate seal is not affixed thereto.

 

3.02                                                                        Cheques, Drafts and Notes

 

All cheques, drafts or orders for the payment of money and all notes and acceptances and bills of exchange shall be signed by such officer or person or persons, whether or not officers of the Corporation, and in such manner as the board may from time to time designate by resolution.

 

3.03                                                                        Corporate Seal

 

The Corporation may, but need not have, a corporate seal and if one is adopted it shall be in a form approved from time to time by the board.

 

3.04                                                                        Financial Year

 

The financial year of the Corporation shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the board.

 

DIVISION FOUR

DIRECTORS

 

4.01                                                                        Number and Residency of Directors

 

The board shall consist of such number of directors as is fixed by the articles, or where the articles specify a variable number, shall consist of such number of directors as is not less than the minimum nor more than the maximum number of directors provided in the articles and as shall be fixed from time to time by resolution of the shareholders. No less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the directors of the Corporation must be resident Canadians.

 

4.02                                                                        Election and Term

 

Subject to the articles, the election of directors shall take place at each annual meeting of shareholders and all of the directors then in office, unless elected for a longer period of time (not to exceed the close of the third (3rd) annual meeting of shareholders following election), shall retire but, if qualified, shall be eligible for re-election. The number of directors to be elected at any such meeting shall, subject to the articles, be the number of directors then in office, or the number of directors whose terms of office expire at the meeting, as the case may be, except that, if cumulative voting is not required by the articles and the articles otherwise permit, the shareholders may resolve to elect some other number of directors. Where the shareholders adopt an amendment to the articles to increase the number or minimum number of directors, the shareholders may, at the meeting at which they adopt the amendment, elect the additional number of directors authorized by the amendment. If fan election of directors is not held at the proper time, the incumbent directors shall continue in office until their successors are elected. If the articles provide for cumulative voting, each director elected by shareholders (but not directors elected or

 

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appointed by creditors or employees) censes to hold office at the annual meeting and each shareholder entitled to vote at an election of directors has the right to cast a number of votes equal to the number of votes attached to the shares held by him multiplied by the number of directors he is entitled to vote for, and he may cast all such votes in favour of one candidate or distribute them among the candidates in any manner. If he has voted for more than one candidate without specifying the distribution among such candidate, he shall be deemed to have divided his votes equally among the candidates for whom he voted.

 

4.03                                                                        Removal of Directors

 

Subject to the Act and the articles, the shareholders may by ordinary resolution passed at a special meeting remove any director from office, except a director elected by employees or creditors pursuant to the articles or a unanimous shareholder agreement, and the vacancy created by such removal may be filled at the same meeting, failing which it may be filled by the board. However, if the articles provide for cumulative voting, no director shall be removed pursuant to this section where the votes cast against the resolution for his removal would, if cumulatively voted at an election of the full board, be sufficient to elect one or more directors.

 

4.04                                                                        Consent

 

A person who is elected or appointed a director is not a director unless:

 

a.                                      he was present at the meeting when he was elected or appointed and did not refuse to act as a director, or

 

b.                                      if he was not present at the meeting when he was elected or appointed:

 

i.                                          he consented in writing to act as a director before his election or appointment or within ten (10) days after it, or

 

ii.                                       he has acted as a director pursuant to the election or appointment.

 

4.05                                                                        Vacation of Office

 

A director of the Corporation ceases to hold office when:

 

a.                                      he dies or resigns;

 

b.                                      he is removed in accordance with section 109 of the Act; or

 

c.                                       he becomes disqualified under subsection 105( 1) of the Act.

 

4.06                                                                        Committee of Directors and Lead Director

 

The directors may appoint from among their number: (a) a lead director, who must be a resident Canadian and prescribe his duties and responsibilities and (b) one or more committees of directors, however designated, and subject to section 115 of the Act may delegate to the director or a committee any of the powers of the directors. A committee may be comprised of one or more directors and the mandate for each such committee shall be determined by the directors.

 

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4.07                                                                        Transaction of Business of Committee

 

Subject to the provisions of this by-law with respect to participation by telephone, the powers of a committee of directors may be exercised by a meeting at which a quorum is present or by resolution in writing signed by all of the members of such committee who would have been entitled to vote on that resolution at a meeting of the committee. Meetings of such committee may be held at any place in or outside Canada and may be called by any one member of the committee giving notice in accordance with the by-laws governing the calling of directors’ meetings.

 

4.08                                                                        Procedure

 

Unless otherwise determined herein or by the board, each committee shall have the power to fix its quorum at not less than a majority of its members, to elect its chair and subject to section 4.07 hereof, to regulate its procedure.

 

4.09                                                                        Remuneration and Expenses

 

The directors shall be paid such remuneration for their services as the board may from time to time determine. The directors shall also be entitled to be reimbursed for travelling and other expenses properly incurred by them in attending meetings of the board or any committee thereof. Nothing herein contained shall preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any other capacity and receiving remuneration therefor.

 

4.10                                                                        Vacancies

 

Subject to the Act, a quorum of the board may fill a vacancy among the directors, except a vacancy resulting from an increase in the number or minimum number of directors or from a failure to elect the number or minimum number of directors required by the articles. If there is not a quorum of directors, or if there has been a failure to elect the number or minimum number of directors required by the articles, the directors then in office shall forthwith call a special meeting of shareholders to fill the vacancy and, if they fail to call a meeting or if there are no directors then in office, the meeting may be called by any shareholder.

 

4.11                                                                        Action by the Board

 

The board shall manage or supervise the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation. Notwithstanding a vacancy among the directors, a quorum of directors may exercise all the powers of the directors. If the Corporation has only one director, that director may constitute a meeting.

 

DIVISION FIVE

MEETING OF DIRECTORS

 

5.01                                                                        Place of Meeting

 

Meetings of the board may be held at any place within or outside Canada.

 

5.02                                                                        Notice of Meeting

 

Unless the directors have made regulations otherwise, meetings of the board may be summoned on twenty-four (24) hours’ notice, verbally or in writing, and whether by means of telephone or telegraph, or any other means of communication. A notice of a meeting of directors need not specify the purpose of or the business to be transacted at the meeting except any proposal to:

 

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a.                                      submit to the shareholders any question or matter requiring approval of the shareholders;

 

b.                                      fill a vacancy among the directors or in the office of auditor;

 

c.                                       issue securities, except in the manner and on the terms authorized by the directors;

 

d.                                      declare dividends;

 

c.                                       purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire shares issued by the Corporation, except in the manner and on the terms authorized by the directors;

 

f.                                        pay a commission for the sate of shares;

 

g.                                       approve a management proxy circular;

 

h.                                      approve a take-over bid circular or directors’ circulars;

 

i.                                          approve any financial statements to be placed before the shareholders at an annual meeting; or

 

j.                                         adopt, amend or repeal by-laws.

 

Provided, however, that a director may in any manner waive notice of a meeting and attendance of a director at a meeting of directors shall constitute a waiver of notice of the meeting except where a director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the grounds that the meeting is not lawfully called.

 

For the first meeting of the board of directors to be held immediately following an election of directors or for a meeting of the board at which a director is to be appointed to fill a vacancy in the board, no notice of such meeting shall be necessary to the newly elected or appointed director or directors in order to legally constitute the meeting, provided that a quorum of the directors is present.

 

5.03                                                                        Adjourned Meeting

 

Notice of an adjourned meeting of the board is not required if the time and place of the adjourned meeting is announced at the original meeting.

 

5.04                                                                        Calling of the Meetings

 

Meetings of the board shall be held from time to time at such time and at such place as the board, the chair of the board, the lead director, the president or any two directors may determine. Should more than one of the above-named call a meeting at or for substantially the same time, there shall be held only one meeting and such meeting shall occur at the time and place determined by, in order of priority, the board, the chair of the board, the lead director, or the president.

 

5.05                                                                        Regular Meetings

 

The board may appoint a day or days in any month or months for regular meetings of the board at a place and hour to be named. A copy of any resolution of the board fixing the place and time of such regular meetings shall be sent to each director forthwith after being passed, and forthwith to each director subsequently elected or appointed, but no other notice shall be required for any such regular meeting except where the Act or this by-law requires the purpose thereof or the business to be transacted thereat to be specified.

 

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5.06                                                                        Chair

 

The chair of any meeting of the board shall be the first mentioned of such of the following officers as have been appointed and who is a director and is present at the meeting: chair of the board, lead director or president. If no such officer is present, the directors present shall choose one of their number to be chair.

 

5.07                                                                        Quorum

 

Subject to section 5.08, the quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the board shall consist of a majority of the directors holding office or such greater number of directors as the board may from time to time determine.

 

5.08                                                                        Canadian Representation at Meetings

 

Directors shall not transact business at a meeting of directors unless no less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the directors present are resident Canadians. Notwithstanding the foregoing, directors may transact business at a meeting of directors when less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the directors present are resident Canadians if:

 

a.                                      a resident Canadian director who is unable to be present approves in writing, or by telephonic, electronic or other communication facility, the business transacted at the meeting; and

 

b.                                      the required number of resident Canadian directors would have been present at the meeting had that director who gives his approval under paragraph (a) been present at the meeting.

 

5.09                                                                        Voting

 

Questions arising at any meeting of the board shall be decided by a majority of votes, the chair of the meeting shall be entitled to vote and the chair shall not have a second or casting vote in the event of an equality of votes.

 

5.10                                                                        Meeting by Telephone

 

A director, if all the directors of the Corporation consent, may participate in a meeting of the board or a committee of the board by means of such telephone or other communication facilities which permits all persons participating in the meeting to hear each other and a director participating in such meeting by such means is deemed to be present at the meeting. Any such consent shall be effective whether given before or after the meeting to which it relates and may be given with respect to all meetings of the board and of committees of directors held while a director holds office.

 

5.11                                                                        Resolution in Lieu of Meeting

 

Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this by-law, a resolution in writing signed by all the directors entitled to vote on that resolution at a meeting of the directors or a committee of directors is as valid as if it had been passed at a meeting of the directors or committee of directors. A copy of every such resolution shall be kept with the minutes of the proceedings of the directors or committee of directors. Any such resolution in writing is effective for all purposes at such time as the resolution states regardless of when the resolution is signed.

 

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5.12                        Amendments to the Act

 

It is hereby affirmed that the intention of sections 4.01, 4.06, 5.08 and 7.03 as they relate to Canadian representation is to comply with the minimum requirements of the Act and in the event that such minimum requirements shall be amended, deleted or replaced such that no, or lesser, requirements with respect to Canadian representation are then in force, such sections shall be correspondingly amended, deleted or replaced.

 

DIVISION SIX

PROTECTION OF DIRECTORS, OFFICERS AND OTHERS

 

6.01                        Conflict of Interest

 

A director or officer shall not be disqualified by his office, or be required to vacate his office, by reason only that he

 

a.             is a party to;

 

b.             is a director or officer, or an individual acting in a similar capacity, of a party to; or

 

c.             has a material interest in a party to

 

a material contract or material transaction, whether made or proposed, with the Corporation. Such a director or officer shall, however, disclose to the Corporation the nature and extent of his interest in the contract or transaction at the time and in the manner provided by the Act. Subject to the provisions of the Act, a director shall not by reason only of his office be accountable to the Corporation or to its shareholders for any profit or gain realized from such a contract or transaction, and such contract or transaction shall not be void or voidable by reason only of the director’s interest therein, provided that the required declaration and disclosure of interest is properly made, the contract or transaction is approved by the directors or shareholders, if necessary, and the contract or transaction was fair and reasonable to the Corporation at the time it was approved and, if required by the Act, the director refrains from voting as a director on the contract or transaction.

 

6.02                        Limitation of Liability

 

Every director and officer of the Corporation in exercising his powers and discharging his duties shall act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Corporation and shall exercise the care, diligence and skill that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in comparable circumstances. Subject to the foregoing, the Act and the Regulations, no director or officer for the time being of the Corporation shall be liable for the acts, neglects or defaults of any other director or officer or employee or for joining in any act for conformity, or for any loss, damage or expense happening to the Corporation through the insufficiency or deficiency of title to any property acquired by the Corporation or for or on behalf of the Corporation or for the insufficiency or deficiency of any security in or upon which any of the moneys of or belonging to the Corporation shall be placed out or invested or for any loss, conversion, misapplication or misappropriation of or any damage resulting from any dealings with any moneys, securities or other assets belonging to the Corporation or for any loss or damage arising from the bankruptcy, insolvency or tortious acts of any person with whom any of the moneys, securities or effects of the Corporation shall be deposited, or for any loss occasioned by any error of judgment or oversight on his part, or for any other loss damage or misfortune whatever which may happen in the execution of the duties of his respective office or trust or in relation thereto; provided that nothing herein shall relieve any director or officer from the duty to act in accordance with the Act and the Regulations thereunder or from liability for any breach thereof. The directors for the time being of the Corporation shall not be under any duty or responsibility

 

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in respect of any contract, act or transaction whether or not made, done or entered into in the name or on behalf of the Corporation, except such as shall have been submitted to and authorized or approved by the board of directors.

 

No act or proceeding of any director or officer or the board shall be deemed invalid or ineffective by reason of the subsequent ascertainment of any irregularity in regard to such act or proceeding or the election, appointment or qualification of such director or officer or board.

 

6.03                        Indemnity

 

Subject to section 124 of the Act, the Corporation may indemnify a director or officer of the Corporation, a former director or officer of the Corporation or another individual who acts or acted at the Corporation’s request as a director or officer, or an individual acting in a similar capacity, of another entity, against all costs, charges and expenses, including an amount paid to settle an action or satisfy a judgment, reasonably incurred by him in respect of any civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or other proceeding to which he is involved by reason of that association with the Corporation or other entity, if:

 

a.                                      he acted honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Corporation, or, as the case may be, to the best interests of the other entity for which he acted as director or officer or in a similar capacity at the Corporation’s request; and

 

b.                                      in the case of a criminal or administrative action or proceeding that is enforced by a monetary penalty, he had reasonable grounds for believing that his conduct was lawful.

 

The Corporation may also indemnify such persons in such other circumstances as the Act permits or requires. Nothing herein contained shall limit the right of any person entitled to indemnity to claim indemnity apart from the provisions of this section 6.03.

 

The Corporation may advance moneys to a director, officer or other individual for the costs, charges and expenses of any civil, criminal, administrative, investigative or other proceeding referred to above provided that the individual shall repay the moneys if the individual did not fulfill the conditions set out in paragraphs (a) and (b) above.

 

6.04                        Insurance

 

The Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance for the benefit of any person referred to in section 6.03 against any liability incurred by him:

 

a.                                      in his capacity as a director or officer of the Corporation, except where the liability relates to his failure to act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the Corporation; or

 

b.                                      in his capacity as a director or officer of another body corporate where he acts or acted in that capacity at the Corporation’s request, except where the liability relates to his failure to act honestly and in good faith with a view to the best interests of the body corporate.

 

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DIVISION SEVEN

OFFICERS

 

7.01                        Election or Appointment

 

The board may, from time to time, appoint a chair of the board, a president, one or more executive vice presdidents, vice-presidents, a general counsel, a secretary, a treasurer and such other officers as the board may determine, including one or more assistants to any of the officers so appointed. The board may specify the duties of and, in accordance with this by-law and subject to the provisions of the Act, delegate to such officers powers to manage the business and affairs of the Corporation. Except for a managing director and a chair of the board who must be directors, an officer may, but need not be, a director and one person may hold more than one office.

 

7.02                        Chair of the Board

 

The chair of the board shall, when present, preside at all meetings of the board and at all meetings of shareholders.

 

If no managing director is appointed, the board may assign to the chair of the board any of the powers and duties that, by any provision of this by-law, are assigned to the lead director; and he shall, subject to the provisions of the Act, have such other powers and duties as the board may specify. During the absence or disability of the chair of the board, his duties shall be performed and his powers exercised by the lead director, if any, or by the president.

 

7.03                        Lead Director

 

The lead director, if any, shall be a resident Canadian and shall have, subject to the authority of the board, have such other powers and duties as the board may specify.

 

7.04                        Chief Executive Officer and President

 

The roles of the Chief Executive Officer and President may be combined or separated and they shall, either combined or separately, subject to the authority of the board, have such powers and duties as the board may specify.

 

7.05                        Vice-President

 

During the absence or disability of the president, his duties shall be performed and his powers exercised by the vice-president or, if there is more than one, by the vice-president designated from time to time by the board or the president; provided, however, that a vice-president who is not a director shall not preside as chair at any meeting of the board or of a committee of directors. A vice-president shall have such other powers and duties as the board or the president may prescribe.

 

7.06                        Secretary

 

The secretary shall attend and be the secretary of all meetings of the board, shareholders and committees of the board and shall enter or cause to be entered in records kept for that purpose minutes of all proceedings thereat; he shall give or cause to be given, as and when instructed, all notices to shareholders, directors, officers, auditors and members of committees of the board.

 

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7.07                        Treasurer

 

The treasurer shall keep proper accounting records in compliance with the Act and shall be responsible for the deposit of money, the safekeeping of securities and the disbursement of the funds of the Corporation; he shall render to the board whenever required an account of all his transactions and he shall have such other powers and duties as the board or chief executive officer, if any, or the president may specify.

 

7.08                        General Manager or Manager

 

If elected or appointed, the general manager or manager shall have, subject to the authority of the board, the president, if any, and the chief executive officer, full power to manage and direct the business and affairs of the Corporation (except such matters and duties as by law must be transacted or performed by the board and/or by the shareholders) and to employ and discharge agents and employees of the Corporation and may delegate to him or them any lesser authority. A general manager or manager shall conform to all lawful orders given to him by the board and shall at all reasonable times give to the directors or any of them all information they may require regarding the affairs of the Corporation. Any agent or employee appointed by a general manager or manager shall be subject to discharge by the board.

 

7.09                        Powers and Duties of Other Officers

 

The powers and duties of all other officers shall be such as the terms of their engagement call for or as the board, or the president, if any, or the chief executive officer may specify. Any of the powers and duties of an officer to whom an assistant has been appointed may be exercised and performed by such assistant, unless the board or the president, if any, or the chief executive officer otherwise directs.

 

7.10                        Variation of Powers and Duties

 

The board may from time to time and subject to the provisions of the Act, vary, add to or limit the powers and duties of any officer.

 

7.11                        Vacancies

 

If the office of any officer of the Corporation shall be or become vacant by reason of death, resignation, disqualification or otherwise, the directors by resolution shall, in the case of the president or the secretary, and may, in the case of any other office, appoint a person to fill such vacancy.

 

7.12                        Remuneration and Removal

 

The remuneration of all officers appointed by the board of directors shall be determined from time to time by resolution of the board of directors. The fact that any officer or employee is a director or shareholder of the Corporation shall not disqualify him from receiving such remuneration as may be determined. All officers, in the absence of agreement to the contrary, shall be subject to removal by resolution of the board of directors at any time, with or without cause.

 

7.13                        Agents and Attorneys

 

The Corporation, by or under the authority of the board, shall have power from time to time to appoint agents or attorneys for the Corporation in or outside Canada with such powers (including the power to sub-delegate) of management, administration or otherwise as may be thought fit.

 

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7.14                        Conflict of Interest

 

An officer shall disclose his interest in any material contract or proposed material contract with the Corporation in accordance with section 6.01.

 

7.15                        Fidelity Bonds

 

The board may require such officers, employees and agents of the Corporation as the board deems advisable to furnish bonds for the faithful discharge of their powers and duties, in such forms and with such surety as the board may from time to time determine.

 

DIVISION EIGHT

SHAREHOLDERS’ MEETINGS

 

8.01                        Annual Meetings

 

Subject to the Act, the annual meeting of shareholders shall be held at such time and on such day in each year and, subject to section 8.03, at such place or places as the board, the chair of the board, the managing director or the president may from time to time determine, for the purpose of considering the financial statements and reports required by the Act to be placed before the annual meeting, electing directors, appointing auditors if required by the Act or the articles, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly be brought before the meeting.

 

8.02                        Special Meetings

 

The board shall have the power to call a special meeting of shareholders at any time.

 

8.03                        Place of Meetings

 

Meetings of shareholders shall be held at any place within Canada as the directors so determine or, if all the shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting so agree or if the articles so provide, outside Canada.

 

8.04                        Participation in Meeting by Electronic Means

 

Any person entitled to attend a meeting of shareholders may participate in the meeting, in accordance with the Regulations to the Act, if any, by means of a telephonic, electronic or other communication facility that permits all participants to communicate adequately with each other during the meeting, if the Corporation makes available such a communication facility. A person participating in a meeting by such means is deemed to be present at the meeting.

 

8.05                        Meeting Held by Electronic Means

 

If the directors or shareholders call a meeting of shareholders pursuant to the Act, those directors or shareholders, as the case may be, may determine that the meeting shall be held, in accordance with the Regulations to the Act, if any, entirely by means of a telephonic, electronic or other communication facility that permits all participants to communicate adequately with each other during the meeting.

 

8.06                        Record Date for Notice

 

The board may fix in advance a date, preceding the date of any meeting of shareholders by not more than sixty (60) days and not less than twenty-one (21) days, as a record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to notice of the meeting. If no record date is fixed, the record date for the

 

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determination of the shareholders entitled to receive notice of the meeting shall be the close of business on the date immediately preceding the day on which the notice is given or, if no notice is given, the day on which the meeting is held.

 

8.07                        Notice of Meeting

 

Notice of the time and place of each meeting of shareholders shall be sent not less than twenty-one (21) days and not more than sixty (60) days before the meeting to each shareholder entitled to vote at the meeting, each director and the auditor of the Corporation. A notice of meeting need not be sent to shareholders who are not registered on the records of the Corporation or its transfer agent on the record date as determined according to section 8.06 hereof. Notice of a meeting of shareholders at which special business is to be transacted shall state the nature of such business in sufficient detail to permit the shareholder to form a reasoned judgment thereon and shall state the text of any special resolution to be submitted to the meeting.

 

8.08                        Right to Vote

 

Subject to the provisions of the Act as to authorized representatives of any other body corporate, at any meeting of shareholders in respect of which the Corporation has prepared the list referred to in section 8.09 hereof, every person who is named in such list shall be entitled to vote the shares shown thereon opposite his name except to the extent that such person has transferred any of his shares after the record date set pursuant to section 8.06 hereof, or, if no record date is fixed, after the date on which the list referred to in section 8.09 is prepared, and the transferee, upon producing properly endorsed certificates evidencing such shares or otherwise establishing that he owns such shares, demands not later than ten (10) days before the meeting that his name be included to vote the transferred shares at the meeting, in the absence of a list prepared as aforesaid in respect of a meeting of shareholders, every person shall be entitled to vote at the meeting who at the close of business on the record date, or if no record date is set, at the close of business on the date preceding the date notice is sent, is entered in the securities register as the holder of one or more shares carrying the right to vote at such meeting.

 

8.09                        List of Shareholders Entitled to Notice

 

For every meeting of shareholders the Corporation shall prepare an alphabetical list of its shareholders entitled to receive notice of the meeting, showing the number of shares held by each shareholder. If a record date for the meeting is fixed pursuant to section 8.06 hereof, the shareholders listed shall be those registered at the close of business on the record date. If no record date is fixed, the shareholders listed shall be those listed at the close of business on the day immediately preceding the day on which notice of a meeting is given, or where no such notice is given, the day on which the meeting is held. The list shall be available for examination by any shareholder during usual business hours at the registered office of the Corporation or at the place where its central securities register is maintained and at the meeting of shareholders for which the list was prepared.

 

8.10                        Meetings Without Notice

 

A meeting of shareholders may be held without notice at any time and place permitted by the Act:

 

a.                                      if all the shareholders entitled to vote thereat are present in person or represented by proxy or if those not present or represented by proxy waive notice of or otherwise consent to such meeting being held; and

 

b.                                      if the auditors and the directors are present or waive notice of or otherwise consent to such meeting being held.

 

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At such meetings any business may be transacted which the Corporation at a meeting of shareholders may transact. If the meeting is held at a place outside Canada, shareholders not present or represented by proxy, but who have waived notice of or otherwise consented to such meeting, shall also be deemed to have consented to a meeting being held at such place.

 

8.11                        Waiver of Notice

 

A shareholder and any other person entitled to attend a meeting of shareholders may in any manner waive notice of a meeting of shareholders and attendance of any such person at a meeting of shareholders shall constitute a waiver of notice of the meeting except where such person attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business on the grounds that the meeting is not lawfully called.

 

8.12                        Chair, Secretary and Scrutineers

 

The chair of the board or, in his absence, the president, if such an officer has been elected or appointed and is present, or otherwise a vice-president who is a shareholder of the Corporation shall be chair of any meeting of shareholders. If no such officer is present within fifteen (15) minutes from the time fixed for holding the meeting, the persons present and entitled to vote shall choose one of their number to be chair. If the secretary of the Corporation is absent, the chair shall appoint some person, who need not be a shareholder, to act as secretary of the meeting. If desired, one or more scrutineers, who need not be shareholders, may be appointed by a resolution or by the chair with the consent of the meeting.

 

8.13                        Persons Entitled to be Present

 

The only persons entitled to be present at a meeting of shareholders shall be those entitled to vote thereat, the directors and auditors of the Corporation and others who, although not entitled to vote, are entitled or required under any provision of the Act or the articles or by-laws to be present at the meeting. Any other person may be admitted only on the invitation of the chair of the meeting or with the consent of the meeting.

 

8.14                        Quorum

 

A quorum at any meeting of shareholders (unless a greater number of persons are required to be present or a greater number of shares are required to be represented by the Act or by the articles or by any other by-law) shall be persons present not being less than two (2) in number and holding or representing not less than twenty five (25%) per cent of the shares entitled to be voted at the meeting. If a quorum is present at the opening of any meeting of shareholders, the shareholders present or represented may proceed with the business of the meeting notwithstanding that a quorum is not present throughout the meeting. If a quorum is not present at the opening of the meeting of shareholders, the shareholders present or represented may adjourn the meeting to a fixed time and place but may not transact any other business,

 

8.15                        Proxyholders and Representatives

 

Votes at meetings of the shareholders may be given either personally or by proxy; or, in the case of a shareholder who is a body corporate or association, by an individual authorized by a resolution of the board or governing body of the body corporate or association to represent it at a meeting of shareholders of the Corporation, upon producing a certified copy of such resolution or otherwise establishing his authority to vote to the satisfaction of the secretary or the chair.

 

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A proxy shall be executed by the shareholder or his attorney authorized in writing and is valid only at the meeting in respect of which it is given or any adjournment thereof. A person appointed by proxy need not be a shareholder.

 

8.16                        Time for Deposit of Proxies

 

The board may specify in a notice calling a meeting of shareholders a time, preceding the time of such meeting by not more than forty-eight (48) hours exclusive of Saturdays and holidays, before which time proxies to be used at such meeting must be deposited. A proxy shall be acted upon only if, prior to the time so specified, it shall have been deposited with the Corporation or an agent thereof specified in such notice or, if no such time having been specified in such notice, it has been received by the secretary of the Corporation or by the chair of the meeting or any adjournment thereof prior to the time of voting.

 

8.17                        Joint Shareholders

 

If two or more persons hold shares jointly, any one of them present in person or duly represented at a meeting of shareholders may, in the absence of the other or others, vote the shares; but if two or more of those persons are present in person or represented and vote, they shall vote as one the shares jointly held by them.

 

8.18                        Votes to Govern

 

Except as otherwise required by the articles or by-laws or by law, all questions proposed for the consideration of shareholders at a meeting of shareholders shall be determined by a majority of the votes cast and in the event of an equality of votes at any meeting of shareholders, either upon a show of hands or upon a ballot, the chair shall not have a second or casting vote.

 

8.19                        Show of Hands

 

Subject to the Act, any question at a meeting of shareholders shall be decided by a show of hands, unless a ballot thereon is required or demanded as hereinafter provided. Upon a show of hands every person who is present and entitled to vote shall have one vote. Whenever a vote by show of hands shall have been taken upon a question, unless a ballot thereon is so required or demanded, a declaration by the chair of the meeting that the vote upon the question has been carried or carried by a particular majority or not carried and an entry to that effect in the minutes of the meeting shall be prima facie evidence of the fact without proof of the number of the votes recorded in favour of or against any resolution or other proceeding in respect of the said question, and the result of the vote so taken shall be the decision of shareholders upon the said question.

 

8.20                        Ballots

 

On any question proposed for consideration at a meeting of shareholders, a shareholder, proxyholder or other person entitled to vote may demand and the chair may require that a ballot be taken either before or upon the declaration of the result of any vote by show of hands. If a ballot is demanded on the election of a chair or on the question of an adjournment it shall be taken forthwith without an adjournment. A ballot demanded or required on any other question shall be taken in such manner as the chair shall direct. A demand or requirement for a ballot may be withdrawn at any time prior to the taking of the ballot. If a ballot is taken each person present shall be entitled, in respect of the shares that he is entitled to vote at the meeting upon the question, to the number of votes as provided for by the articles or, in the absence of such provision in the articles, to one vote for each share he is entitled to vote. The result of the ballot so taken shall be the decision of the shareholders upon the question.

 

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8.21                                                                        Adjournment

 

The chair at a meeting of shareholders may, with the consent of the meeting and subject to such conditions as the meeting may decide, adjourn the meeting from time to time and from place to place. If a meeting of shareholders is adjourned for less than thirty (30) days, it shall not be necessary to give notice of the adjourned meeting, other than by announcement at the time of the adjournment. Subject to the Act, if a meeting of shareholders is adjourned by one or more adjournments for an aggregate of thirty (30) days or more, notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given in the same manner as notice for an original meeting but, unless the meeting is adjourned by one or more adjournments for an aggregate of more than ninety (90) days, subsection 149(1) of the Act does not apply.

 

8.22                                                                        Resolution in Lieu of a Meeting

 

Except where not permitted in the Act, a resolution in writing signed by all the shareholders entitled to vote on that resolution at a meeting of shareholders is as valid as if it had been passed at a meeting of the shareholders; and a resolution in writing dealing with all matters required to be dealt with at a meeting of shareholders and signed by all the shareholders entitled to vote at such meeting, satisfies all the requirements of the Act relating to meetings of shareholders. A copy of every such resolution in writing shall be kept with minutes of the meetings of shareholders. Any such resolution in writing is effective for all purposes at such time as the resolution states regardless of when the resolution is signed.

 

8.23                                                                        Only One Shareholder

 

Where the Corporation has only one shareholder or only one holder of any class or series of shares, the shareholder present in person or duly represented constitutes a meeting.

 

DIVISION NINE

SHARES

 

9.01                                                                        Non-Recognition of Trusts

 

Subject to the Act, the Corporation may treat the registered holder of any share as the person exclusively entitled to vote, to receive notices, to receive any dividend or other payment in respect of the share, and otherwise to exercise all the rights and powers of an owner of the share.

 

9.02                                                                        Certificates

 

The shareholder is entitled at his option to a share certificate that complies with the Act or a non-transferable written acknowledgement of his right to obtain a share certificate from the Corporation in respect of the securities of the Corporation held by him. Share certificates and acknowledgements of a shareholder’s right to a share certificate, respectively, shall be in such form as described by the Act and as the Board shall from time to time approve. A share certificate shall be signed by at least one director or officer of the Corporation or by or on behalf of a registrar, transfer agent or branch transfer agent of the Corporation, or by a trustee who certifies it in accordance with a trust indenture. Any signatures required on the share certificate may be printed or otherwise mechanically reproduced on it.

 

9.03                                                                        Replacement of Share Certificates

 

The board or any officer or agent designated by the board may in its or his discretion direct the issuance of a new share certificate or other such certificate in lieu of and upon cancellation of a certificate that has been mutilated or in substitution for a certificate claimed to have been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken on payment of such reasonable fee and on such terms as to indemnity, reimbursement of expenses and

 

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evidence of loss and of title as the board may from time to time prescribe, whether generally or in any particular case.

 

9.04                                                                        Joint Holders

 

The Corporation is not required to issue more than one share certificate in respect of shares held jointly by several persons, and delivery of a certificate to one of several joint holders is sufficient delivery to all. Any one of such holders may give effectual receipts for the certificate issued in respect thereof or for any dividend, bonus, return of capital or other money payable or warrant issuable in respect of such certificate.

 

9.05                                                                        Allotment of Shares

 

Subject to the Act or the articles, the board may from time to time allot or grant options to purchase or other securities exchangeable into, the whole or any part of the authorized and unissued shares of the Corporation at such times and to such persons and for such consideration as the board shall determine, provided that no share shall be issued until it is fully paid as provided by the Act.

 

9.06                                                                        Commissions

 

The board may from time to time authorize the Corporation to pay a reasonable commission to any person in consideration of such person purchasing or agreeing to purchase shares of the Corporation, whether from the Corporation or from any other person, or procuring or agreeing to procure purchasers for any such shares.

 

DIVISION TEN

TRANSFER OF SECURITIES

 

10.01                                                                 Registration of Transfer

 

If a share in registered form is presented for registration of transfer, the Corporation shall register the transfer if:

 

a.                                      the share is endorsed by an appropriate person, as defined in section 65 of the Act;

 

b.                                      reasonable assurance is given that the endorsement is genuine and effective;

 

c.                                       the Corporation has no duly to enquire into adverse claims or has discharged any such duty;

 

d.                                      any applicable law relating to the collection of taxes has been complied with;

 

e.                                       the transfer is rightful or is to a bona fide purchaser; and

 

f.                                        the transfer fee, if any, has been paid.

 

10.02                                                                 Transfer Agents and Registrar

 

The board may from time to time by resolution appoint or remove one or more agents to maintain a central securities’ register or registers and a branch securities’ register or registers. Agents so appointed may be designated as transfer agent or registrar according to their functions, and a person may be appointed and designated with functions as both registrar and transfer or branch transfer agent. Registration of the issuance or transfer of a security in the central securities’ register or in a branch securities’ register is complete and valid registration for all purposes.

 

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10.03                                                                 Securities’ Registers

 

A central securities’ register of the Corporation shall be kept at its registered office or at any other place in Canada designated by the directors to record the shares and other securities issued by the Corporation in registered form, showing with respect to each class or series of shares and other securities:

 

a.                                      the names, alphabetically arranged, and the latest known address of each person who is or has been a holder;

 

b.                                      the number of shares or other securities held by each holder; and

 

c.                                       the date and particulars of the issuance and transfer of each share or other security.

 

A branch securities’ register or registers may be kept either in or outside Ontario at such place or places as the board may determine. A branch securities’ register shall only contain particulars of securities issued or transferred at that branch. Particulars of each issue or transfer of a security registered in a branch securities’ register shall also be kept in the corresponding central securities’ register.

 

10.04                                                                 Deceased Shareholders

 

In the event of the death of a holder, or of one of the joint holders, of any share, the Corporation shall not be required to make any entry in the securities’ register in respect thereof or to make any dividend or other payments in respect thereof except upon production of all such documents as may be required by law and upon compliance with the reasonable requirements of the Corporation and its transfer agents.

 

DIVISION ELEVEN

DIVIDENDS AND RIGHTS

 

11.01                                                                 Dividends

 

Subject to the Act, the board may from time to time declare dividends payable to the shareholders according to their respective rights and interest in the Corporation. Dividends may be paid in money or property or by issuing fully-paid shares of the Corporation.

 

11.02                                                                 Payment of Dividends

 

A dividend payable in money shall be paid by cheque or by electronic means or by such other method as the board may determine. The payment will be made to the order of each registered holder of shares of the class or series in respect of which it has been declared and cheques shall be mailed by prepaid ordinary mail to such registered holder at his address recorded in the Corporation’s securities’ register or registers unless such holder otherwise directs. In the case of joint holders the payment shall, unless such joint holders otherwise direct, be made payable to the order of all such joint holders and sent to them at their recorded address. The mailing of such cheque as aforesaid, or the sending of the payment by electronic means or the sending of the payment by another method determined by the board shall satisfy and discharge the liability for the dividend to the extent of the sum represented thereby plus the amount of any tax which the Corporation is required to and does withhold, unless payment is not made upon presentation, if applicable.

 

11.03                                                                 Non-Receipt of Payment

 

In the event of non-receipt of any dividend payment by the person to whom it is sent as aforesaid, the Corporation shall issue to such person re-payment of a like amount on such terms as to indemnity,

 

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reimbursement of expenses and evidence of non-receipt and of title as the board may from time to time prescribe, whether generally or in any particular case.

 

11.04                                                                 Unclaimed Dividends

 

Any dividend unclaimed after a period of six (6) years from the date on which the same has been declared to be payable shall be forfeited and shall revert to the Corporation.

 

11.05                                                                 Record Date for Dividends and Rights

 

The board may fix in advance a date, preceding by not more than fifty (50) days the date for the payment of any dividend, as a record date for the determination of the persons entitled to receive payment of such dividend, provided that, unless waived as provided for in the Act, notice of any such record date is given, not less than seven (7) days before such record date, by newspaper advertisement in the manner provided in the Act and by written notice to each stock exchange in Canada, if any, on which the Corporation’s shares are listed for trading. Where no record date is fixed in advance as aforesaid, the record date for the determination of the persons entitled to receive payment of any dividend shall be at the close of business on the day on which the resolution relating to such dividend is passed by the board.

 

DIVISION TWELVE

INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO SHAREHOLDERS

 

12.01                                                                 Confidential Information

 

Except as provided by the Act, no shareholders shall be entitled to obtain information respecting any details or conduct of the Corporation’s business which in the opinion of the directors would not be expedient to the interests of the Corporation to communicate to the public.

 

12.02                                                                 Conditions of Access to Information

 

The directors may from time to time, subject to rights conferred by the Act, determine whether and to what extent and at what time and place and under what conditions or regulations the documents, books and registers and accounting records of the Corporation or any of them shall be open to the inspection of shareholders and no shareholders shall have any right to inspect any document or book or register or account record of the Corporation except as conferred by statute or authorized by the board of directors or by a resolution of the shareholders.

 

12.03                                                                 Registered Office and Records Office

 

The registered office of the Corporation shall be located within the province in Canada specified in the Corporation’s articles. The records office shall be located within Canada.

 

DIVISION THIRTEEN

NOTICES

 

13.01                                                                 Method of Giving Notices

 

A requirement under the Act, the Regulations, the articles or the by-laws of the Corporation that a notice, document or other information be created or provided, including a notice, document or other information required to be created or provided in writing, is satisfied by the creation or provision of an electronic document if the Act and Regulations, if any, have been complied with. A notice or document required by

 

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the Act, the Regulations, the articles or the by-laws to be sent to a shareholder or director of the Corporation may be sent by prepaid mail addressed to, or may be delivered personally to:

 

a.                                      the shareholder at his latest address as shown in the records of the Corporation or its transfer agent; and

 

b.                                      the director at his latest address as shown in the records of the Corporation or in the last notice filed under section 106 or 113

 

or if otherwise communicated by electronic means permitted by the Act.

 

A notice or document sent by prepaid mail in accordance with the foregoing to a shareholder or director of the Corporation is deemed to be received at the time it would be delivered in the ordinary course of mail unless there are reasonable grounds for believing that the shareholder or director did not receive the notice or document at the time or at all.

 

13.02                                                                 Notice to Joint Shareholders

 

If two or more persons are registered as joint holders of any share, any notice may be addressed to all of such joint holders but notice addressed to one of such persons shall be sufficient notice to all of them.

 

13.03                                                                 Computation of Time

 

In computing the dale when notice must be given under any provision requiring a specified number of days notice of any meeting or other event, the date of giving the notice shall be excluded and the date of the meeting or other event shall be included.

 

13.04                                                                 Persons Entitled by Death or Operation of Law

 

Every person who, by operation of law, transfer, death of a shareholder or any other means whatsoever, shall become entitled to any share, shall be bound by every notice in respect of such share which shall have been duly given to the shareholders from whom he derives his title to such share prior to his name and address being entered on the securities’ register (whether such notice was given before or after the happening of the event upon which he became so entitled) and prior to his furnishing to the Corporation the proof of authority or evidence of his entitlement prescribed by the Act.

 

13.05                                                                 Non-Receipt of Notices

 

If a notice or document is sent to a shareholder in accordance with section 13.01 and the notice or document is returned on three (3) consecutive occasions because the shareholder cannot be found, the Corporation is not required to send any further notice or documents to the shareholder until he informs the Corporation in writing of his new address; provided always, that in the event of the return of a notice of a shareholders’ meeting mailed to a shareholder in accordance with section 13.01 of this by-law the notice shall be deemed to be received by the shareholder on the date deposited in the mail notwithstanding its return.

 

13.06                                                                 Omissions and Errors

 

Subject to the Act, the accidental omission to give any notice to any shareholder, director, officer, auditor or member of a committee of the board or the non-receipt of any notice by any such person or any error in any notice not affecting the substance thereof shall not invalidate any action taken at any meeting held pursuant to such notice or otherwise founded thereon.

 

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13.07                                                                 Signature on Notices

 

Unless otherwise specifically provided, the signature of any director or officer of the Corporation to any notice or document to be given by the Corporation may be written, stamped, typewritten or printed or partly written, stamped, typewritten or printed.

 

A requirement under the Act or Regulations for a signature or for a document to be executed by a director or officer of the Corporation is satisfied if, in relation to an electronic document, the requirements of the Act or Regulations are met and if the signature results from the application by the director or officer of a technology or a process that permits the following to be proven:

 

a.                                      the signature resulting from the use by the director or officer of the technology or process is unique to the director or officer;

 

b.                                      the technology or process is used by the director or officer to incorporate, attach or associate the director’s or officer’s signature to the electronic document; and

 

c.                                       the technology or process can be used to identify the director or officer using the technology or process.

 

13.08                                                                 Waiver of Notice

 

If a notice or document is required by the Act or the Regulations, the articles, the by-laws or otherwise to be sent, the sending of the notice or document may be waived or the time for the notice or document may be waived or abridged at any time with the consent in writing of the person entitled to receive it.

 

DIVISION FOURTEEN

MISCELLANEOUS

 

14.01                                                                 Directors to Require Surrender of Share Certificates

 

The directors in office when a Certificate of Continuance is issued under the Act are hereby authorized to require the shareholders of the Corporation to surrender their share certificate, or such of their share certificates as the directors may determine, for the purpose of cancelling the share certificates and replacing them with new share certificates that comply with section 49 of the Act, in particular, replacing existing share certificate with share certificates that are not negotiable securities under the Act. The directors in office shall act by resolution under this section 14.01 and shall in their discretion decide the manner in which they shall require the surrender of existing share certificates and the time within which the shareholders must comply with the requirement and the form or forms of the share certificates to be issued in place of the existing share certificates. The directors may take such proceedings as they deem necessary to compel any shareholder to comply with a requirement to surrender his share certificate or certificates pursuant to this section. Notwithstanding any other provision of this by-law, but subject to the Act, the director may refuse to register the transfer of shares represented by a share certificate that has not been surrendered pursuant to a requirement under this section.

 

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14.02                                                                 Severability

 

The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this by-law shall not affect the validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions of this by-law.

 

MADE by the board the 21st day of May A.D. 2010.

 

 

/s/ Ken Hartwick

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

CONFIRMED by the sole shareholder in accordance with the Canada Business Corporations Act, the 21st day of May A.D. 2010.

 

 

 

JUST ENERGY INCOME FUND, by and through its Attorney and Administrator, Just Energy Corp.

 

 

 

Per:

/s/ Ken Hartwick

 

 

Ken Hartwick

 

 

President and Chief Executive Officer

 

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