Status of the Artist Act

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CERTIFICATION ORDER

            WHEREAS the Editors’ Association of Canada / Association canadienne des réviseurs was certified under the Status of the Artist Act by the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal on November 1, 2002;

            AND WHEREAS since April 1, 2013, the Canada Industrial Relations Board is responsible for the administration of Part II of the Status of the Artist Act;

            NOW, THEREFORE, the Canada Industrial Relations Board hereby confirms that the

EDITORS’ ASSOCIATION OF CANADA / ASSOCIATION CANADIENNE DES RÉVISEURS

is certified to represent a sector composed of professional freelance editors who are engaged by a producer subject to the Status of the Artist Act to prepare original works in the form of compilations of data, including but not limited to original indexes, glossaries, tables of contents and bibliographies, in either French or English, but excluding:

a.     authors covered by the certification granted to the Periodical Writers Association of Canada by the Tribunal on June 4, 1996;

b.    authors covered by the certification granted to the Writers Guild of Canada by the Tribunal on June 25, 1996;

c.     authors covered by the certification granted to the Société des auteurs de radio, télévision et cinéma by the Tribunal on January 30, 1996 as amended on June 8, 2001;

d.    authors covered by the certification granted to The Writers’ Union of Canada by the Tribunal on November 17, 1998;

e.    authors covered by the certification granted to the Union des écrivaines et écrivains québécois by the Tribunal on February 2, 1996; and

f.     authors covered by the certification granted to the Playwrights Union of Canada by the Tribunal on December 13, 1996.

 

            AND that, for the purposes of section 28(2) of the Status of the Artist Act, the original date of the certification remains November 1, 2002.

 

           ISSUED at Ottawa, Ontario, this 29th day of April 2013.

 

 

 

 

                Elizabeth MacPherson

                Chairperson

                         

Order no.: 10407-U

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