A-27 - Publishers Loss Insurance Act

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1. In this Act,
(a)  Minister means the Minister of Cultural Affairs;
(b)  publisher means a publisher who is a member of Association des Éditeurs Canadiens and has his chief place of business within the Province of Québec;
(c)  issue means the number of copies of a work comprised in the first printing and intended for sale;
(d)  cost price means the cost of printing and binding;
(e)  prescribed delay means, in the case of works of imagination such as novels, novelettes, stories or poems, a period of nine months, and in the case of all other works a period of twenty-four months, computed in all cases from the date when the work is first offered for sale at retail in the Province;
(f)  insured work means a work accepted by the Minister for the purposes of publishers loss insurance and for which the premium has been duly paid.
R. S. 1964, c. 58, s. 1; 1965 (1st sess.), c. 22, s. 1.