Short title

        1. This Act may be cited as the Private Homes for Special Care Allowances Act.

1973 No57 s1

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Definitions

        2. In this Act

             (a)  "director" means the Director of Homes for Special Care appointed in the Department of Social Services;

             (b)  "minister" means the minister appointed under the Executive Council Act to administer this Act; and

             (c)  "private home for special care" means

                      (i)  a home for special care operated by a church or an inter-faith group, or

                     (ii)  a welfare institution as defined by the Welfare Institutions Licensing Act and licensed under this Act.

1973 No57 s2; 1979 c49 Sch C; 2006 c40 s21

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Function of director

        3. The minister may prescribe the functions and duties for the director with respect to this Act and the regulations.

1973 No57 s4

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Grant of allowances

        4. The director may grant allowances out of funds appropriated by the Legislature for that purpose to or on behalf of persons in a private home for special care who are unable to pay in whole or in part for their maintenance.

1973 No57 s5

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Regulations

        5. (1) The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may make regulations

             (a)  governing the manner of applying for allowances;

             (b)  prescribing the maximum allowances that may be granted;

             (c)  providing for the modification, suspension and cancellation of allowances;

             (d)  fixing the intervals at which and the manner in which allowances shall be granted;

             (e)  prescribing the forms for use under this Act and the regulations;

              (f)  respecting property qualifications and other sources of income and other qualifications of recipients of allowances;

             (g)  prescribing the material or proof of a fact including evidence under oath or affirmation that shall be provided as a condition precedent to the payment of maintenance;

             (h)  providing for the designation of persons as investigators and prescribing their powers and duties;

              (i)  providing for the making of investigations respecting persons to whom allowances may be granted or by or on whose behalf application has been made for an allowance or who are in receipt of an allowance; and

              (j)  generally, to give effect to the purpose of this Act.

             (2)  Different regulations may be made respecting different kinds of maintenance or respecting maintenance paid to or on behalf of different classes of persons or respecting maintenance paid to or on behalf of the same class of persons under different circumstances and regulations may be made to apply generally or to a particular part of the province.

             (3)  Regulations made under subsection (1) may be made with retroactive effect.

1973 No57 s6

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