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File an Opening Balance on Initial Report

Requirements

 

An initial report recording the opening balance of securities held for each type of security as well as each type of ownership is required to be completed prior to posting any transactions on SEDI. (For convenience, references to "security" include instruments that are "related financial instruments" as defined in NI 55-104 unless the context otherwise requires.)

SEDI will take the insider or the agent through the process of setting up the initial opening balance for each type of ownership or security that doesn't already have an opening balance report.

The Nature Code "00" and the opening balance date will be supplied by SEDI. The date is pulled from the insider profile using either the Opening balance date field or the Date the insider became an insider of the issuer field.

The balance of securities should be the balance the insider held as of their opening balance date
(It may be the balance on their last paper filing if they were an insider prior to June 9, 2003) or their holdings on the date they became an insider. Note: if the insider does not own any securities of the reporting issuer on the date he became insider or the date of his opening balance, the number or value of the securities and the equivalent number of underlying securities (for derivative securities) would be zero. 

How to File an Initial Opening Balance Report

Steps to file an opening balance on initial report follow:

Steps

Action

1

Click Insider report in the top navigation bar

The Introduction to insider report activities screen opens (Form 55-102F2)

2

Click File insider report in the left navigation bar

The
Select issuer screen opens

Click the radio button beside an issuer in the list to select it

Note:
To view issuer information click on the magnifying glass under Issuer Information. An information window will display. Opting to view the issuer's information will not detour you from the filing process.

3

Click File insider report or View issuer reports

If

then

you choose to view issuer reports

SEDI will then display an information window that displays a list of issuer reports which have been filed since your last insider report filing, or, informs you that no issuer reports have been filed since your last filing. When finished click “Viewing completed”.

Note: It is recommended to view the issuer report, as the current list of issuer reports will not be. displayed the next time you file an insider report.  However, issuer reports are always accessible through the access public filings

you choose file insider report

you will be taken to the Select security designation screen

4

The Select security designation screen opens

 

Click the radio button beside the security that you want to file a report about either in the:

  • Outstanding securities list (securities currently issued by the issuer)

  • Insider-defined securities list (securities not issued by the issuer, such as third-party derivatives)

  • Archived securities list (securities no longer issued by the issuer)

 

Click Next

5

The Select ownership type screen opens

Use the drop-down list box to specify an Ownership type for the selected securities

If the ownership type is

then

direct (The insider holds the securities directly. For example, the insider can hold the securities in an account with a broker, but the account is in the insider’s name.)

click Next

indirect (The insider can hold the securities indirectly. For example, the insider can beneficially own common shares in X Co. but the registered owner is another entity such as a holding company, an RRSP or a family trust.)

select a registered holder from the Registered holder list and click Next

control or direction (An insider has control or direction over securities if the insider, has or shares voting power or investment power over those securities)

select a registered holder from the Registered holder list and click Next

 

Note: If the desired registered holder does not appear in the list, click the radio button beside Add new holder and type the name of the registered holder in the space provided.

 

Click Next

6

The Opening balance on initial SEDI report screen opens

Enter an opening balance in the Opening balance of securities or contracts held field.

Note:
If the security is a derivative enter an opening balance in the Opening balance of equivalent number or value of underlying securities field.

Enter any remarks that you want to make public in the General remarks field (optional).

Enter any private comments in the Private remarks to securities regulatory authorities field (optional).

Maximum number of characters for remarks: 254

Click Next

7

The Final Review screen opens

Review the information:

If

then

the information is correct

click Certify

the information is incorrect

either:

  • click Cancel to return to the Enter Transaction Information screen
  • or identify which screen contains the information which needs to be changed and click on that screen name in the process tracker at the top of the screen. 

When you return to a previous step, transaction information entered on the pages following that step is cleared and will have to be re-entered.

Note:
The current screen is highlighted in green and underlined, completed steps are in black and upcoming steps are in grey.

 

Click Certify

The Certification dialog box opens

Click
OK

8

The Completed screen opens

Clicking the “Printer friendly version” button will take you to a printer-friendly page and launch your browser’s print dialog box. Use the Back button on the page (not the browser ”back” button) to return to the “File insider report – Completed” page

Indicate whether you are finished filing insider reports.

If you

then

want to file another transaction

Select one of four available options to file another transaction:

 

  •  Same security and holder

  • Same security and different holder

  • Different security

  • Different Issuer

 

Click Yes to file this part of the report.
 

don’t want to file another transaction

Click No to finish filing the report and return to the Introduction to insider report activities screen. Click Logout in the top navigation bar.
 

Availability

Insider reports are normally publicly available on SEDI within two to five minutes after filing

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