Changes to Companion Policy 43-101CP to National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects

 

CHANGES TO COMPANION POLICY 43-101CP TO NATIONAL INSTRUMENT 43-101STANDARDS OF DISCLOSURE FOR MINERAL PROJECTS

1. Companion Policy 43-101CP to National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects is changed by this Document.

2. Subsection 4.2(1) is changed by replacing "SEDAR" wherever it occurs with "SEDAR+".

3. Subsection 4.2(11) is replaced with the following:

(11) Electronic transmission -- National Instrument 13-103 System for Electronic Data Analysis and Retrieval + (SEDAR+) prescribes that each document that is required or permitted to be provided to a securities regulatory authority or regulator must be transmitted to the securities regulatory authority or regulator 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 securities regulatory authority or regulator.

To reflect the phased implementation of SEDAR+, the Appendix of National Instrument 13-103 System for Electronic Data Analysis and Retrieval + (SEDAR+) sets out securities legislation under which documents are excluded from being filed or delivered in SEDAR+.

National Instrument 13-103 System for Electronic Data Analysis and Retrieval + (SEDAR+) should be consulted when providing any document to a securities regulatory authority or regulator under the Instrument and this Policy..

4. Subsection 4.3(2) is changed by replacing "SEDAR" with "SEDAR+".

5. Section 6.1 is changed by deleting the following paragraph:

In addition, SEDAR might not be able to accommodate large technical report files. An issuer could have difficulty filing, and more importantly, the public could have difficulty accessing and downloading, large technical reports. An issuer should consider limiting the size of its technical reports to facilitate filing and public access to the reports.

Effective Date

6. These changes become effective on June 9, 2023.