Union Securities Ltd. - Rule 31-502

Order

Headnote

Previously registered salespersons of the Applicant are exempt from the post registration proficiency requirements under paragraph 2.1(2) of Rule 31-502 Proficiency Requirements for Registrants, subject to conditions.

Rules Cited

Ontario Securities Commission Rule 31-502 Proficiency Requirements for Registrants, ss. 2.1(2), 4.1

June 2, 2005

IN THE MATTER OF

THE SECURITIES ACT,

R.S.O. 1990, C. S.5, AS AMENDED (the Act)

AND

IN THE MATTER OF

UNION SECURITIES LTD.

 

EXEMPTION ORDER

(Rule 31-502)

WHEREAS Union Securities Ltd. (the Applicant) has applied for an exemption pursuant to section 4.1 of Ontario Securities Commission Rule 31-502 -- Proficiency Requirements for Registrants (the Rule) from the provisions of paragraph 2.1(2) of the OSC Proficiency Rule (the OSC Requirement).

AND WHEREAS, the OSC Requirement provides that the registration of a salesperson is suspended on the last day of the thirtieth month after the date registration as a salesperson was granted to that salesperson unless the salesperson has completed the Professional Financial Planning Course (the PFP Course) or the first course of the Canadian Investment Management Program (the CIM Program) and has delivered the prescribed notice to the Director of the Ontario Securities Commission;

AND WHEREAS unless otherwise defined or the context otherwise requires, terms used herein have the meaning set out in Ontario Securities Commission Rule14-501 -- Definitions;

AND WHEREAS the Director has considered the application and the recommendation of staff of the Ontario Securities Commission;

AND WHEREAS the Applicant has represented to the Director that:

1. The Applicant was incorporated under the laws of British Columbia and is registered under the Act as a dealer in the category of investment dealer and is a member of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada (the IDA);

2. The requirement of the IDA that a registered representative (a Salesperson) of an investment dealer that is a member of the IDA (a Dealer) complete the first course of the CIM Program within thirty months of registration (the IDA Requirement) first became effective on January 1, 1994 (the IDA Effective Date);

3. Salespersons who were registered to trade on behalf of a Dealer in a jurisdiction immediately prior to the IDA Effective Date are exempt from the IDA Requirement;

4. The Rule, which became effective on August 17, 2000 (the OSC Effective Date), adopted and expanded the IDA Requirement but did not exempt Salespersons who were registered to trade on behalf of a Dealer in another jurisdiction prior to the IDA Effective Date from the OSC Requirement; and

5. Salespersons of the Applicant who have been registered to trade on behalf of a Dealer under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction other than Ontario immediately prior to the IDA Effective Date and who were first registered to trade on behalf of a Dealer under the Act after the OSC Effective Date are subject to the OSC Requirement;

AND UPON the Director being satisfied that to do so would not be prejudicial to the public interest;

NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to section 4.1 of the Rule, Salespersons of the Applicants are not subject to the OSC Requirement;

PROVIDED THAT:

(A) immediately prior to the IDA Effective Date, the particular Salesperson was registered under the securities legislation of one or more jurisdictions other than Ontario as a salesperson of a Dealer that was then registered under such legislation as an investment dealer (or the equivalent) and the registration of the Salesperson was not specifically restricted to the sale of mutual funds or non-retail trades; and

(B) after the IDA Effective Date, that Salesperson was either registered to trade on behalf of a Dealer continuously in one or more jurisdictions other than Ontario, or any period after the IDA Effective Date in which the Salesperson's registration to trade on behalf of a Dealer was suspended or in which the Salesperson was not so registered does not exceed three years;

(C) that Salesperson either is first registered under the Act to trade on behalf of a Dealer in Ontario after the date of this exemption order or was first so registered no more than 30 months prior to the date hereof.

"David M. Gilkes"