Definitions

1   In this Instrument,

"failure-to-file cease trade order" means an order, other than a management cease trade order, in relation to a specified default that prohibits or restricts trading in, or purchasing of, securities of a reporting issuer;

"management cease trade order" means a cease trade order that prohibits or restricts trading in securities of a reporting issuer by one or more of the following:

(a) the chief executive officer of the reporting issuer or a person acting in a similar capacity;

(b) the chief financial officer of the reporting issuer or a person acting in a similar capacity;

(c) an officer or director of the reporting issuer or other person or company who had, or may have had, access directly or indirectly to a material fact or material change with respect to the reporting issuer that has not been generally disclosed;

"specified default" means a failure by a reporting issuer to comply with the requirement to file, within the time period prescribed, one or more of the following:

(a) annual financial statements;

(b) an interim financial report;

(c) an annual or interim management's discussion and analysis or annual or interim management report of fund performance;

(d) an annual information form;

(e) a certification of filings under National Instrument 52-109 Certification of Disclosure in Issuers' Annual and Interim Filings.

Issuance and revocation of failure-to-file cease trade order

2   If an issuer is a reporting issuer in the local jurisdiction, and a securities regulatory authority or regulator in another jurisdiction of Canada makes a failure-to-file cease trade order in respect of the issuer's securities, a person or company must not trade in or purchase a security of the issuer in the local jurisdiction, except in accordance with the conditions that are contained in the order, if any, for so long as the failure-to-file cease trade order remains in effect.