(1) A mutual fund, other than an alternative mutual fund, must not purchase a security of an issuer, enter into a specified derivatives transaction or purchase an index participation unit if, immediately after the transaction, more than 10% of its net asset value would be invested in securities of any one issuer.
(1.1) An alternative mutual fund or a non-redeemable investment fund must not purchase a security of an issuer, enter into a specified derivatives transaction or purchase an index participation unit if, immediately after the transaction, more than 20% of its net asset value would be invested in securities of any one issuer.
(2) Subsections (1) and (1.1) do not apply to the purchase of any of the following:
(a) a government security;
(b) a security issued by a clearing corporation;
(c) a security issued by an investment fund if the purchase is made in accordance with the requirements of section 2.5;
(d) an index participation unit that is a security of an investment fund;
(e) an equity security if the purchase is made by a fixed portfolio investment fund in accordance with its investment objectives.
(3) For the purposes of this section, for each long position in a specified derivative that is held by an investment fund for a purpose other than hedging and for each index participation unit held by the investment fund, the investment fund is considered to hold directly the underlying interest of that specified derivative or its proportionate share of the securities held by the issuer of the index participation unit.
(4) Despite subsection (3), for the purposes of this section, an investment fund is considered to not hold a security or instrument if that security or instrument is a component of, but represents less than 10% of,
(a) a stock or bond index that is the underlying interest of a specified derivative, or
(b) the securities held by the issuer of an index participation unit.
(5) Despite subsection (1), an index mutual fund, the name of which includes the word “index”, may, in order to satisfy its fundamental investment objectives, purchase a security, enter into a specified derivatives transaction or purchase index participation units if its prospectus contains the disclosure referred to in subsection (5) of Item 6 and subsection (5) of Item 9 of Part B of Form 81-101F1 Contents of Simplified Prospectus.