Status of the Artist Act

Certification Order

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

Union des artistes

certification to represent, for the purposes of collective bargaining, a sector composed of all choreographers and performers who are independent contractors engaged by any producer subject to the Status of the Artist Act throughout Canada, to choreograph, perform, sing, recite or act in any manner whatsoever in a literary, musical or dramatic work, or in a mime, variety, circus or puppet show:

1. broadcast, presented or performed in Quebec;
   
   
2. broadcast, presented or performed in Canada outside Quebec and intended for a French-speaking audience,
   
   save and except:
   1. independent contractors covered by the certification granted to the Canadian Actors' Equity Association by the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal on April 25, 1996 and subject to the agreement made between the Union des artistes and the Canadian Actors' Equity Association dated November 6, 1992;
      
      
   2. independent contractors covered by the certification granted to the ACTRA Performers' Guild by the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal on April 25, 1996 and subject to the agreement between the Union des artistes and the ACTRA Performers' Guild dated May 17, 1996;
      
      
   3. independent contractors covered by the certifications granted to the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada and La Guilde des musiciens du Québec by the Canadian Artists and Producers Professional Relations Tribunal on January 16, 1997.

Ottawa, August 29, 1996
Amended December 30, 1997

[Last renewed for an additional three years on December 30, 2012]