Ontario · Condominium Act, 1998
The ten-day clock does not start when the request arrives. It starts when the corporation has both the request and the fee. Miss the deadline and the Act does not fine you, it does something worse: it deems a clean certificate to have been issued, and binds the corporation to it.
Status certificate must be given by
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✓ Verified September 12, 2026 · Condominium Act, 1998, s. 76
Sources checked automatically every Monday. Last check October 5, 2026, no change found. See the record
Section 76(5) does not impose a penalty. It writes the certificate for you, in the purchaser’s favour, and s. 76(6) makes it binding.
Condominium Act, 1998, s. 76(5) and (6).
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Section 76(3) of the Condominium Act, 1998 is one sentence, and the whole tool turns on when it starts running:
“The corporation shall give the status certificate within 10 days after receiving a request for it and payment of the fee charged by the corporation for it.”
Two conditions, joined by and. A request that arrives without the fee does not start the clock. Neither does a payment that arrives before the request. The ten days run from whichever of the two landed later, and if the corporation charged no fee at all, the request alone is enough.
Boards tend to expect a penalty for a late certificate. The Act does something that costs a great deal more. Section 76(5) deems a certificate to have been given the day after the deadline expires, and writes its contents:
“A corporation that does not give a status certificate within the required time shall be deemed to have given a certificate on the day immediately after the required time has expired stating that, (a) there has been no default in the payment of common expenses for the unit…”
Section 76(6) then makes that deemed certificate binding on the corporation against a purchaser or mortgagee who relies on it. If the unit was in arrears, the corporation has just certified in writing that it was not, and the buyer takes the unit clean. The arrears do not disappear, but the corporation can no longer collect them from the new owner on the strength of a certificate it is deemed to have issued.
Section 76(2) lets the corporation charge “the prescribed fee”, and the prescription sits in O. Reg. 48/01 s. 18(4):
“The fee that a corporation may charge for providing a status certificate, including all material that is required to be included in it, shall not exceed $100, inclusive of all applicable taxes.”
Three things follow that get missed. It is $100 including HST, not $100 plus HST. It covers all the material the certificate is required to contain, so the attachments cannot be billed separately. And it is a ceiling, not a price, so a corporation may charge less.
This tool adds ten calendar days to the later trigger date, then applies the Legislation Act, 2006. Section 89(1) says a time limit that would otherwise expire on a holiday is extended to the next day that is not a holiday, and s. 88(2) sets out the list.
That list is worth reading closely, because it contains Sunday and it does not contain Saturday. A deadline that lands on a Saturday stands. A deadline that lands on a Sunday moves to the Monday, and moves again if that Monday is itself a statutory holiday. This tool applies both rules and tells you when it has shifted a date and why.