Deletions
Additions
- +1. In this By-law and in all other By-laws of the Fund, unless the context otherwise requires:
- +1.1 "Act" means the Canada Not-For-Profit Corporations Act, S.C. 2009, c.23 including the
- +Regulations made pursuant to the Act, and any statute or regulations that may be substituted, as
- +amended from time to time;
- +1.2 "Articles" means the original or restated articles of incorporation or articles of amendment,
- +amalgamation, continuance, reorganization, arrangement or revival of the Fund;
- +1.3 "Board" means the Board of Directors of the Fund;
- +1.4 "By-laws" means this By-law and any other by-law of the Fund as amended and which are, from time
- +to time, in force and effect;
- +1.5 "Director" means a member of the Board;
- +1.6 “Federal Council” means the Federal Council (or successor body as it may be named) of the Green
- +Party of Canada (as constituted on Thursday, September 1, 1988, at Camp Kwomais, White Rock, B.C.)
- +and as is set out in the Constitution of the Green Party of Canada. For further certainty, for the
- +purposes of this By-law, the Federal Council only includes voting members of such body;
- +1.7 “Green Party of Canada” or “GPC”, means the Green Party of Canada Unincorporated Association
- +registered as a Registered Party with Elections Canada;
- +1.8 "Meeting of Members" includes an annual meeting of members or a Special Meeting of Members (as
- +defined in 1.9); "Special Meeting" includes a meeting of any class or classes of Members and a
- +special meeting of all Members entitled to vote at an annual meeting of Members;
- +1.9 "Member" means an individual that meets the requirements for membership of the GPC Fund as set
- +out in Article 12 of this By-law, and has been accepted into membership in the Fund by resolution of
- +the Board or in such other manner as may be determined by the Board. For further certainty, for the
- +purposes of this By-law, Members are only voting members of Federal Council;
- +1.10 "Officer" means any one or more persons, respectively, who have been appointed as officers of
- +the Fund in accordance with the By-laws;
- +1.11 "Ordinary Resolution" means a resolution passed by a majority (i.e. more than 50%) of the votes
- +cast on that resolution;
- +1.12 "Proposal" means a proposal submitted by a Member of the Fund that meets the requirements of
- +the Act;
- +1.13 "Regulations" means the regulations made under the Act, as amended, restated or in effect from
- +time to time;
- +1.14 "Special Resolution" means a resolution passed by a majority of not less than two-thirds (2/3)
- +of the votes cast on that resolution.
