CERTIFICATION ORDER
WHEREAS the Periodical Writers Association of Canada was certified under the Status of the Artist Act by the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal on June 4, 1996;
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
PERIODICAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
is certified to represent a sector composed of:
a. professional freelance writers who are authors of works in a language other than French commissioned by a producer to whom the Status of the Artist Act applies for use in a magazine, newspaper or other periodical; and
b. professional freelance writers who are authors of works in a language other than French originally published in a magazine, newspaper or periodical with respect to the subsequent distribution of the work in another medium by a producer to whom the Status of the Artist Act applies.
AND that, for the purposes of section 28(2) of the Status of the Artist Act, the original date of the certification remains June 4, 1996.
ISSUED at Ottawa, Ontario, this 29th day of April, 2013
Elizabeth MacPherson
Chairperson
Order no. 10397-U