O. Reg. 400/00: GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

 

ONTARIO REGULATION 400/00

made under the

Ministry of Colleges and Universities Act

Made: June 8, 2000
Approved: June 21, 2000
Filed: June 26, 2000

Amending Reg. 772 of R.R.O. 1990

(Graduate Scholarship Awards)

1. (1) Subsection 2 (1) of Regulation 772 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 is revoked and the following substituted:

(1) An award under this Regulation shall be for two or three consecutive terms.

(1.1) The amount of an award under this Regulation shall be the amount set out in Column 2 of the Table to this section opposite the number of terms set out in Column 1.

(1.2) No award shall be paid to a person under this Regulation unless the person is entitled to receive an additional award paid by an eligible institution in the amount set out in Column 3 of the Table to this section opposite the number of terms set out in Column 1.

(2) Paragraph 1 of subsection 2 (4) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

1. The Ontario Graduate Scholarship Program.

(3) Subsection 2 (5) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted:

(5) The Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities may require a person who is the recipient of an award under this Regulation and who withdraws from an eligible program or ceases to be registered as a student in an eligible program at an eligible institution before completing the term for which the award was granted to repay, on demand, to the Minister of Finance, an amount that is equal to the full amount of the award or such lesser amount as the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities may determine having regard to the economic condition of the person and financial hardship that may be caused by requiring the repayment of the full amount of the award.

(4) Section 2 of the Regulation is a amended by adding the following Table:

TABLE

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Number of Terms	Amount of Award under this Regulation	Amount of Additional Award paid by Eligible Institution	Total Amount of Awards
2	$ 6,667	$3,333	$10,000
3	10,000	5,000	15,000

2. Subsection 3 (7) of the Regulation is amended by striking out “not more than 1,300 awards each year” in the portion before paragraph 1 and substituting “not more than 2,000 awards each year”.

3. Subsection 5 (1) of the Regulation is amended by,

(a) inserting “or the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act (Canada)” after “the Canada Student Loans Act (Canada)” in subclause (a) (i);

(b) striking out “Treasurer of Ontario” in subclause (a) (ii) and substituting “Minister of Finance”; and

(c) striking out “$5,000” in clause (c) and substituting “$10,000”,

4. This Regulation comes into force on May 1, 2001.

Dianne Cunningham

Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities

Dated on June 8, 2000.