ONTARIO REGULATION 39/00

made under the

Ministry of Community and Social services Act

Made: February 2, 2000
Filed: February 4, 2000

Amending Reg. 776 of R.R.O. 1990

(Social Assistance Review Board)

1. (1) Subclause (b) (iii) of the definition of “recipient” in subsection 3 (1) of Regulation 776 of the Revised Regulations of Ontario, 1990 is amended by striking out “he or she has a relative including a spouse, or a relative of a spouse who” at the beginning and substituting “he or she has a spouse, a same–sex partner, a relative, a relative of a spouse or a relative of a same–sex partner who”.

(2) Subsection 3 (2) of the Regulation is amended by adding the following definitions:

“same–sex partner” means either of two persons of the same sex who live together in a conjugal relationship outside marriage; (“partenaire de même sexe”)

“spouse” means,

(a) a spouse as defined in section 1 of the Family Law Act, or

(b) either of two persons of the opposite sex who live together in a conjugal relationship outside marriage; (“conjoint”)

2. This Regulation comes into force on the day section 47 of the Amendments Because of the Supreme Court of Canada Decision in M. v. H. Act, 1999 comes into force.