Status of the Artist Act

Certification Order

The Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal hereby grants to the

Association des professionnels des arts de la scène du Québec (APASQ-CSN)

certification to represent a sector composed of all set, costume, lighting, sound, props and puppet designers, stage managers, set painters, assistant costume and set designers, and assistant stage directors who are independent contractors engaged by a producer subject to the Status of the Artist Act:

1. in any performing arts, dance and variety entertainment production presented within the province of Quebec;
   
   
2. in any production of the French theatre department of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
   
   With the exception of stage managers and assistant stage directors covered by the certification granted by the Tribunal to the Canadian Actors' Equity Association on April 25, 1996, and subject to the agreement between the Association des professionnels des arts de la scène du Québec (APASQ-CSN) and the Canadian Actors' Equity Association dated June 28, 2001.

Ottawa, January 4, 2002

[Last renewed for an additional three years on January 4, 2011]