UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 40-F/A

 

(AMENDMENT NO. 1)

 

o REGISTRATION STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SECTION 12 OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

OR

 

x ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13(a) OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019

Commission File Number 001-15144

 

TELUS Corporation

(Exact Name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

British Columbia, Canada

(Province or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

 

4812

(Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number (if applicable))

 

7th Floor – 510 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, British Columbia  V6B 0M3, Canada
(604) 697-8044

(Address and telephone number of Registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

CT Corporation System, 28 Liberty Street
New York, New York 10005

(212) 590-9200

(Name, address (including zip code) and telephone number (including area code) of agent

for service in the United States)

 

Securities registered pursuant to section 12(b) of the Act.

 

Title of each class		Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Shares		New York Stock Exchange

 

Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act.

 

None

(Title of Class)

 

Securities for which there is a reporting obligation pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Act.

 

None

(Title of Class)

 

For annual reports, indicate by check mark the information filed with this Form:

 

o Annual information form      x Audited annual financial statements

 

Indicate the number of outstanding shares of each of the issuer’s classes of capital or common stock as of December 31, 2019:

 

604,586,502 Common Shares

 

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports) and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

 

Yes  x

No  o

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to submit such files).

 

Yes  x

No  o

 

Indicate by check mark whether the Registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Emerging Growth Company o

 

If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the Registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards† provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.

 

o

 

†The term “new or revised financial accounting standard” refers to any update issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to its Accounting Standards Codification after April 5, 2012.

 

The annual report on Form 40-F shall be incorporated by reference into or as an exhibit to, as applicable, each of the following of the Registrant’s Registration Statements under the Act: Form S-8s (File Nos. 333-125486 and 333-181463), Form F-3D (File No. 333-232967), and Form F-10 (File No. 333-232601).

 

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

TELUS Corporation (the “Company” or the “Registrant”) is filing this Amendment No. 1 to Form 40-F (“Amendment No. 1”) to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 40-F, dated February 13, 2020 (the “Original Form 40-F”), for the sole purpose of submitting XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) Interactive Data, which was inadvertently omitted from the Original Form 40-F due to a technical error.

 

Except as set forth above, this Amendment No. 1 speaks as of the time of filing the Original Form 40-F, does not reflect events that may have occurred subsequent to such filing, and does not modify or update any of the disclosures in the Original Form 40-F.

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

The following documents are filed as exhibits to this annual report on Form 40-F:

 

Exhibit
Number		Document
99.1		Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
99.2		Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
99.3*		Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2019, dated February 13, 2020
99.4		Audited Consolidated Financial Statements as at and for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 and Management’s Discussion and Analysis
99.5*		Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
101.INS		XBRL Instance Document
101.SCH		XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema
101.CAL		XBRL Taxonomy Extension Scheme Calculation Linkbase
101.DEF		XBRL Taxonomy Extension Scheme Definition Linkbase
101.LAB		XBRL Taxonomy Extension Scheme Label Linkbase
101.PRE		XBRL Taxonomy Extension Scheme Presentation Linkbase

 

* Previously filed.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Exchange Act, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 40-F and has duly caused this Amendment No. 1 to the annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized.

 

Registrant:            TELUS Corporation

 

 

By:	/s/ Andrea Wood
	Andrea Wood
	Chief Legal and Governance Officer

 

 

Date:   February 14, 2020

 

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