Aboriginal Law

Part C, s. 2(2)(c)
exception for Section to have an unlimited number of voting members-at-large.

Part C, s. 6(3)(b)
exception to permit a member-at-large to serve an indeterminate number of consecutive one-year term by standing for nomination and election. (Board, 21 Feb 2020)

Air and Space Law

Part C, s. 2(2)(d)
exception to include an immediate past chair who meets the criteria as an honorary member-at-large, where the Section Executive Committee decides to have honorary members-at-large. (Board, 19 Feb 2021)

Part C, s. 3
exception to permit three Officers only – the Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary. (Board; 19 Feb 2021)

Part C, s. 6(1) and (3)(a)
exception to permit two-year term of office for Officers and to permit Officers to serve two consecutive years in each office. (Board; 19 Feb 2021)

CBA Wellness Forum Section

Repealed (Board, 30 Apr 2018)

Competition Law and Foreign Investment Review

Part C, s. 3(1)
exception to continue with six Officers. Officers are Chair, First Vice Chair, Second Vice Chair, Executive Member, Secretary Treasurer, and Past Chair. (Board; 20 Jan 2021)

Part C, s. 19(2)(a) and (b)
exception to permit Competition Bureau staff to serve on Section Committees, and to permit Committee Chairs and Vice Chairs who are not on the Section Executive Committee (Board; 20 Jan 2021)

Construction and Infrastructure Law

Part C, s. 2(2)(d)
exception to include an immediate past chair who meets the criteria as an honorary member-at-large, where the Section Executive Committee decides to have honorary members-at-large. (Board, 19 Feb 2021)

Part C, s. 3
exception to permit three Officers only – the Chair, Vice Chair and Secretary. (Board; 19 Feb 2021)

Part C, s. 6(1) and (3)(a)
exception to permit two-year term of office for Officers and to permit Officers to serve two consecutive years in each office. (Board; 19 Feb 2021)

Immigration Law

Part C, s. 2(2)
exception to add two senior advisors appointed by the Officers as voting members of the Section Executive Committee. (Board; 8 Mar 2018)

Part C, s. 3(3) and s. 6(3)
exception to elect a Vice Chair, Refugees and Litigation as a fifth officer, which office will not fall in the sequence of succession. A Section member is eligible to serve as Vice Chair, Refugees and Litigation for up to four consecutive years. (Board, 8 Sep 2023)

Law Students

Part C, s. 2(2)
exception to have members-at-large on the Executive Committee composed of:

• up to ten non-voting articling or law students, representative of the geographic regions of Canada; and
• one non-voting representative from each recognized Canadian law school, who shall be the law school representative or ambassador designated by the Branch at the law schools in the Branch. (Board, 21 Feb 2020; Branches, 5 Jun 2020.)

Part C, s. 6(2)
two exceptions

• to permit all officers except Immediate Past Chair to be elected each year, with no succession from year to year.
• to exempt Immediate Past Chair from being a member of the Section.

Taxation Law

Part C, s. 6(1)
exception to have two-year term of office for Officers.