Status of the Artist Act

Certification Order

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

Canadian Actors' Equity Association

certification to represent, for the purposes of professional relations with all producers subject to the Status of the Artist Act (S.C. 1992, c.33) throughout Canada, a sector composed of independent contractors engaged to perform the Function of actor (including principal, chorus, journeyman, apprentice actor, mime, narrator, local jobber, swing/understudy, or extra), singer (including soloist, performer, ensemble studio artist, chorus member, apprentice, understudy/cover or extra), dancer (including guest artist, apprentice dancer or understudy/sharer), production stage manager, stage manager, assistant stage manager, stage management apprentice, stage director, assistant stage director, fight director, fight captain, choreographer, assistant choreographer, dance captain, ballet master or mistress, resident choreologist, coach or repetiteur in a live performance in theatre, opera, ballet, dance, industrial show, cabaret show or concert performance whether or not such performance or entertainment is presented in a theatre or elsewhere, with the exception of:

1. singers covered by the 1996 understanding between Canadian Actors' Equity Association and the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada; and
   
   
2. independent contractors in the enumerated categories who are covered by the 1992 agreement between Canadian Actors' Equity Association and the Union des Artistes.

Ottawa, April 25, 1996

[Last renewed for an additional three years on April 25, 2011]