Status of the Artist Act

Certification Order

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

Société professionnelle des auteurs et des compositeurs du Québec

certification to represent a sector composed of lyricists, composers and lyricist-composers:

1. of songs in the French language commissioned by a producer to whom the Status of the Artist Act applies;
   
   
2. of music without words commissioned by a French language broadcast undertaking, when the composer is a resident of Quebec;
   
   
3. of music without words commissioned by any producer in Quebec to whom the Status of the Artist Act applies, when the composer is a resident of Quebec.

Ottawa, May 17, 1996