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ONTARIO REGULATION 63/00

made under the

Charitable Institutions Act

Made: February 2, 2000
Filed: February 7, 2000

Amending Reg. 69 of R.R.O. 1990

(General)

Note: Since the end of 1998, Regulation 69 has been amended by Ontario Regulations 149/99 and 371/99.  Previous amendments are listed in the Table of Regulations in the Statutes of Ontario, 1998.

1. (1) Subsection 1 (1) of Regulation 69 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 is amended by adding the following definition:

“same–sex partner” means a person of the same sex with whom the person is living, or was living immediately before one of them was admitted to an approved charitable home for the aged, in a conjugal relationship outside marriage, if the two persons,

(a) have cohabited for at least one year,

 

(b) are together the parents of a child, or

(c) have together entered into a cohabitation agreement under section 53 of the Family Law Act;

(2) Section 1 of the Regulation is amended by adding the following subsection:

(3) For greater certainty, a same–sex partner is a partner for the purposes of this Regulation.

2. (1) Paragraph 2 of subsection 43.1 (1) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “A long–stay resident whose spouse” at the beginning and substituting “A long–stay resident whose spouse or same–sex partner”.

(2) Clause 43.1 (2) (b) of the Regulation is amended by adding “or same–sex partner” at the end.

(3) Subclause 43.1 (3) (b) (iii) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “spouse” wherever it occurs and substituting in each case “spouse or same–sex partner”.

(4) Subclause 43.1 (3) (b) (iv) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “if the spouse” at the beginning and substituting “if the spouse or same–sex partner” and by striking out “of the spouse’s disposable income for that year” at the end and substituting “of the spouse’s or same–sex partner’s disposable income for that year”.

(5) Subsection 43.1 (7) of the Regulation is amended by adding “or same–sex partner” at the end.

3. This Regulation comes into force on the day section 5 of the Amendments Because of the Supreme Court of Canada Decision in M. v. H. Act, 1999 comes into force.