A-27 - Publishers Loss Insurance Act

Section 1 Disposition versions

1977-12-31

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.