War Veterans Allowance Act — W-3 2
 the military operations undertaken by the United Nations to restore peace in the Republic of Korea during the period from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953, inclusive; ( guerre de Corée ) Minister means the Minister of Veterans Affairs; ( ministre ) orphan means (a) a child who is bereft by death of his or her parents, (b) a child who is bereft by death of one parent and whose surviving parent has, in the opinion of the Minister, abandoned or deserted the child, or (c) a child of (i) divorced or separated parents, or (ii) parents who are neither spouses nor common-law partners of each other who is bereft by death of a parent who, at the time of death, was receiving an additional allowance in respect of that child or would have been eligible to receive an additional allowance in respect of that child but for the level of that parent’s income, and which child, not being the child of any other recipient, is (d) under the age of eighteen years, (e) under the age of twenty-five years and following and making satisfactory progress in a course of instruction approved by the Minister, (f) under the age of twenty-one years and prevented by physical or mental incapacity from earning a livelihood, or (g) over the age of twenty-one years and prevented by physical or mental incapacity from earning a livelihood, where the incapacity occurred before the child attained the age of twenty-one years or after the age of twenty-one years and before the age of twenty-five years while following and making satisfactory progress in a course of instruction approved by the Minister; ( orphelin ) parent includes (a) an adoptive or foster-parent, and (b) a parent’s spouse or common-law partner; ( parent ) payment period means (a) before April 1, 1998, the fiscal year, (b) the fifteen-month period that begins on April 1, 1998 and ends on June 30, 1999, and (c) after June 30, 1999, the twelve-month period that begins on July 1 of one year and ends on June 30 of the next year; ( période de paiement ) payment quarter means a period of three months commencing on the first day of April, July, October or January in any payment period; ( trimestre de paiement ) payment review period [Repealed, 2000, c. 34, s. 69] personal information has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Privacy Act ; ( renseignements personnels ) previous fiscal year [Repealed, 1998, c. 21, s. 121] previous payment period means the payment period ending next before the current payment period; ( période de paiement précédente ) recipient means any person to whom or on whose behalf payment of an allowance is authorized by this Act; ( allocataire ou bénéficiaire ) resistance group means any force that was raised during World War I or World War II, as delimited by subsection 37(10), in a country after it was occupied by an enemy of His Majesty in that War and that operated against that enemy; ( groupe de résistance ) second adjustment quarter , in relation to a payment quarter, means, (a) if the payment quarter commences on the first day of April, the period of three months commencing on the first day of August next before that first day of April, (b) if the payment quarter commences on the first day of July, the period of three months commencing on the first day of November next before that first day of July, (c) if the payment quarter commences on the first day of October, the period of three months commencing on the first day of February next before that first day of October, and (d) if the payment quarter commences on the first day of January, the period of three months commencing on the first day of May next before that first day of January; ( second trimestre de rajustement ) surviving common-law partner , in relation to an individual, does not include, for greater certainty, a person who, at the time of the individual’s death, was a former common-law partner of that individual; ( conjoint de fait survivant ) surviving spouse , in relation to an individual, does not include, for greater ce