517. The enterprise registrar shall preserve and keep open for examination by the public the registers and archives of a public nature kept by him before 1 January 1994 pursuant to any of the Acts listed in Schedule I or to any private Act.
On payment of the fees prescribed by regulation, the enterprise registrar may issue, to every person who applies therefor, copies or extracts of the preserved documents and certificates or attestations in relation thereto.
Where access to a record or the issue of a copy or extract of a document is requested in respect of a registrant which has availed itself of an exemption established by regulation under the third paragraph of section 97, the enterprise registrar shall delete the information covered by the exemption from the record, extract or copy. An extract or copy so issued and certified by the enterprise registrar is deemed to be a true extract or copy.
A certified copy or extract of a preserved document is authentic and is proof of its registration, where applicable.
Section 123.30, paragraph 2 of section 123.31 and section 123.32 of the Companies Act (chapter C-38) as they read on 31 December 1993 continue to apply to documents registered by the enterprise registrar under Part IA of that Act in the registers referred to in the first paragraph.
1993, c. 48, s. 517; 2001, c. 20, s. 7; 2002, c. 45, s. 551.