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Understanding the guidance number

A Guidance Number consists of the following: sector, reference number and type of guidance.

Example:

Pension Sector guidance with reference number 0199 and type Approach

Abbreviations used for sectors:

Sector Abbreviation	Name of Sector
AU	Auto Insurance
CC	Co-operatives Corporations
CU	Credit Unions and Caisses Populaires
FA	Financial Planners and Advisors
GR	General Regulatory
HP	Health Service Providers
PC	Life and Health Insurance
LT	Loan and Trust
MB	Mortgage Brokering
PE	Pensions

Abbreviations used for type of guidance:

Type of Guidance Abbreviation	Type of Guidance
APP	Approach
DEC	Decision
INF	Information
INT	Interpretation
ORG	Inherited Guidance from the FSCO and DICO organisations

How to find active and inactive guidance

You can search by word, sector or number.

Search by word

You can find a particular guidance by entering any word or words from its title in the search field. Please note you cannot search the content of the guidance.

Search by sector

You can also search the table by sector abbreviation based on the following legend:

Sector Abbreviation	Name of Sector
Auto	Auto Insurance
Co-operative	Co-operative Corporations
CU-CP	Credit Unions and Caisse Populaire
FP/FA	Financial Advisors and Financial Planners
General regulatory	General Regulatory
HSP	Health Service Providers
Insurance	Life and Health Insurance
Licensing	Licensing
Loan & trust	Loan and Trust
Mortgage	Mortgage Brokering
Pensions	Pensions

Search by number

Each new guidance is numbered. Enter the number in the search field to find your guidance. As we continue to review our inherited guidance, we will transition guidance that remains active into this standardized numbering system. Inherited guidance has been issued temporary numbers. Inherited guidance cannot be found by referencing old numbering at this time.