2023-06-01
Amendments to Policy Statement to Regulation 41-101 respecting General Prospectus Requirements
Canadian securities regulators amended the Policy Statement to Regulation 41-101 to align with the phased implementation of the System for Electronic Data Analysis and Retrieval + (SEDAR+). The changes mandate that documents required or permitted to be provided to regulators, except in Québec, must be transmitted electronically through SEDAR+. All references to the legacy System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) were replaced with SEDAR+ throughout the text to reflect this transition.

AMENDMENTS TO POLICY STATEMENT TO REGULATION 41-101 RESPECTING
GENERAL PROSPECTUS REQUIREMENTS
- Section 1.2 of Policy Statement to Regulation 41-101 respecting General Prospectus
Requirements is amended by inserting, after paragraph (7), the following:
“(8) Electronic transmission – Regulation 13-103 respecting System for Electronic
Data Analysis and Retrieval + (SEDAR+) (insert reference) prescribes that each document
that is required or permitted to be provided to a regulator, except in Québec, or securities
regulatory authority must be transmitted to the regulator, except in Québec, or securities
regulatory authority electronically through the System for Electronic Data Analysis and
Retrieval + (SEDAR+).
The reference to a document includes any report, form, application,
information, material and notice, as well as a copy thereof, and applies to documents that are
required or permitted to be filed or deposited with, or delivered, furnished, sent, provided,
submitted or otherwise transmitted to, a regulator, except in Québec, or securities regulatory
authority.
To reflect the phased implementation of SEDAR+, the Appendix of Regulation
13-103 respecting System for Electronic Data Analysis and Retrieval + (SEDAR+) sets out
securities legislation under which documents are excluded from being filed or delivered in
SEDAR+.
Regulation 13-103 respecting System for Electronic Data Analysis and
Retrieval + (SEDAR+) should be consulted when providing any document to a regulator,
except in Québec, or securities regulatory authority under the Regulation and this Policy
Statement.”.
- Section 3.5.1 of the Policy Statement is amended:
(1) by replacing “System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval
(SEDAR)”, in paragraph (2), by “System for Electronic Data Analysis and Retrieval +
(SEDAR+)”;
(2) by replacing “SEDAR”, in paragraph (3), by “SEDAR+”.
- The Policy Statement is amended by replacing “SEDAR”, wherever it appears, by
“SEDAR+”.