45. The directors and officers of an insurance company must refrain from allotting voting shares and refuse to register any transfer of voting shares of the company in favour of a non-resident,(a) if the non-resident and the persons related to him already hold, directly or indirectly, at least 10 per cent of the issued voting shares of the company, or to the extent that the effect of the transfer or allotment may be to increase the number of their voting shares beyond that percentage; or
(b) if non-residents together already hold, directly or indirectly, at least 25 per cent of the issued voting shares of the company or to the extent that the effect of the transfer or allotment may be to increase the number of their voting shares beyond that percentage.
This section does not apply to insurance companies in which a percentage of voting shares greater than the percentages contemplated in the first paragraph were owned by non-residents on 20 October 1976 provided that the percentage is not increased and until such time as it is reduced to the percentage contemplated in subparagraph a or b, as the case may be.
1974, c. 70, s. 45; 1984, c. 22, s. 15.