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Part 11 - Administration of UMIR

11.2 General Prescriptive Power

    1. A Market Regulator may, from time to time, make or amend a provision of UMIR or Policy.
    2. A provision of UMIR or Policy or an amendment to a provision of UMIR or Policy shall not become effective without the approval of the applicable securities regulatory authority.

    Defined Terms:

    NI 14-101 section 1.1(3) – “securities regulatory authority”

    UMIR section 1.1 – “Market Regulator”, “Policy” and “UMIR”

    There are no related bulletins available for this Rule.

    Regulatory History:

    In connection with the recognition of IIROC and its adoption of UMIR, the applicable securities commissions approved amendments to Rule 11.2 that came into force on June 1, 2008 to replace the word “Rule” with “provision of UMIR”. See Footnote 1 of Status of Amendments.

    Effective December 9, 2013, the applicable securities commissions approved amendments to the French version of UMIR. See IIROC Notice 13-0294 - “Rules Notice – Notice of Approval and Implementation – UMIR – Amendments to the French version of UMIR” (December 9, 2013).

    There is no history log for this rule.

    Part 1 - Definitions and Interpretation
    Part 2 - Abusive Trading
    Part 3 - Short Selling
    Part 4 - Frontrunning
    Part 5 - Best Execution Obligation
    Part 6 - Order Entry and Exposure
    Part 7 - Trading in a Marketplace
    Part 8 - Principal Trading
    Part 9 - Trading Halts, Delays and Suspensions
    Part 10 - Compliance
    Part 11 - Administration of UMIR