Jun 2019 Charity & NFP Law Update
New Regulations Amending the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Regulations and Canada Cooperatives Regulations
As reported in the March 2019 Charity & NFP Law Update, [1] proposed amendments to the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Regulations (“CNCR”) and the Canada Cooperatives Regulations (“Co-op Regulations”) were published in the Canada Gazette on March 16, 2019, with proposed regulatory text to amend both regulations. Subsequent to that, the final Regulations Amending the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Regulations: SOR/2019-224 [2] and the Regulations Amending the Canada Cooperatives Regulations: SOR/2019-226 [3] were published in the Canada Gazette on June 17, 2019.
The final amending regulations are substantively the same as the draft regulations published in March 2019, although certain fees have been changed. In this regard, the amendments to the CNCR generally focus on fees and online services, and include reducing the fees for certain online services; adding new online services; increasing the fees for certain non-online services; removing certain fees; and imposing new fees, with a proposed escalator clause to adjust the fees periodically. Similarly, the proposed amendments to the Co-op Regulations generally focus on changes to service fees, and include a similar escalator clause. Amendments to both the CNCR and Co-op Regulations will come into force on January 15, 2020.