(1) A principal distributor, a participating dealer, or a person or company providing services to the principal distributor or participating dealer must forward any cash or securities received for payment of the issue price of securities of a mutual fund to an order receipt office of the mutual fund so that the cash or securities arrive at the order receipt office as soon as practicable and in any event no later than the second business day after the pricing date.
(2) Payment of the issue price of securities of a mutual fund must be made to the mutual fund on or before the second business day after the pricing date for the securities by using any, or a combination of, the following methods of payment:
(a) by paying cash in a currency in which the net asset value per security of the mutual fund is calculated;
(b) by making good delivery of securities if
(i) the mutual fund would at the time of payment be permitted to purchase those securities,
(ii) the securities are acceptable to the portfolio adviser of the mutual fund and consistent with the mutual fund’s investment objectives, and
(iii) the value of the securities is at least equal to the issue price of the securities of the mutual fund for which they are payment, valued as if the securities were portfolio assets of the mutual fund.
(3) [Repealed]
(4) If payment of the issue price of the securities of a mutual fund to which a purchase order pertains is not made on or before the second business day after the pricing date or if the mutual fund has been paid the issue price by a cheque or method of payment that is subsequently not honoured,
(a) the mutual fund must redeem the securities to which the purchase order pertains as if it had received an order for the redemption of the securities on the third business day after the pricing date or on the day on which the mutual fund first knows that the method of payment will not be honoured; and
(b) the amount of the redemption proceeds derived from the redemption must be applied to reduce the amount owing to the mutual fund on the purchase of the securities and any banking costs incurred by the mutual fund in connection with the dishonoured cheque.
(5) If the amount of the redemption proceeds referred to in subsection (4) exceeds the aggregate of issue price of the securities and any banking costs incurred by the mutual fund in connection with the dishonoured cheque, the difference must belong to the mutual fund.
(6) If the amount of the redemption proceeds referred to in subsection (4) is less than the issue price of the securities and any banking costs incurred by the mutual fund in connection with the dishonoured cheque,
(a) if the mutual fund has a principal distributor, the principal distributor must pay, immediately upon notification by the mutual fund, to the mutual fund the amount of the deficiency; or
(b) if the mutual fund does not have a principal distributor, the participating dealer that delivered the relevant purchase order to the mutual fund must pay immediately, upon notification by the mutual fund, to the mutual fund the amount of the deficiency