Canadian Human Rights Benefit Regulations — 2
2 (1) In these Regulations, Act means the Canadian Human Rights Act ; ( Loi ) actuarial basis means the basis of the assumptions and methods used by a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries to establish the costs of benefits under a benefit plan, taking into consideration the contingencies of human life, such as death, accident, sickness or disease; ( base actuarielle ) benefit , in respect of a benefit plan, includes (a) a lump sum or an annual, a monthly or other periodic amount or the accrual of such amounts to which an employee or their beneficiary, survivor, spouse, common-law partner, child or dependant is or may become entitled under the plan on superannuation, retirement, termination of employment, disability, accident, sickness or death, (b) any amount to which one of the persons referred to in paragraph (a) is or may become entitled under the plan for medical, hospital, nursing, drug or dental expenses or other similar expenses, and (c) any amount to which one of the persons referred to in paragraph (a) is or may become entitled under the plan on superannuation, retirement or termination of employment or to which any person is or may become entitled under the plan on the death of another person; ( prestation ) benefit plan means an insurance plan or a pension plan, whether or not the terms and conditions thereof have been set out in writing; ( régime de prestations ) child , in relation to an employee under a benefit plan, means a child of the employee or of their spouse or common-law partner and includes any child within the meaning given that term under the plan; ( enfant ) common-law partner , in relation to an employee under a benefit plan, means a person with whom the employee has cohabited in a conjugal relationship for a period of at least one year before the event that causes a benefit to be paid under the terms of the plan; ( conjoint de fait ) dependant , in relation to an employee under a benefit plan, has the meaning given that term under the plan; ( personne à charge ) disability income insurance plan means a plan, fund or arrangement provided, furnished or offered to an employee that provides, in accordance with the terms of the plan, fund or arrangement, benefits to the employee for loss of income because of sickness, accident or disability; ( régime d’assurance-revenu en cas d’invalidité ) disability income insurance plan or disability income benefit plan [Repealed, SOR/2022-150, s. 1] health insurance plan means a plan, fund or arrangement provided, furnished or offered to or in respect of an employee that provides, in accordance with the terms of the plan, fund or arrangement, benefits for medical, hospital, nursing, drug or dental expenses or other similar expenses (a) to the employee or the spouse, common-law partner, child or dependant of the employee, or (b) in the case of a deceased employee, to the spouse, common-law partner, child or dependant of the employee; ( régime d’assurance-maladie ) health insurance plan or health benefit plan [Repealed, SOR/2022-150, s. 1] insurance plan means a disability income insurance plan, a health insurance plan or a life insurance plan; ( régime d’assurance ) life insurance plan means a plan, fund or arrangement, provided, furnished or offered to an employee that provides, in accordance with the terms of the plan, fund or arrangement, benefits payable either in a lump sum or by periodic payments (a) on the death of the employee, to a beneficiary, survivor or dependant of the employee, or (b) on the death of the spouse, the common-law partner, a child or a dependant of the employee, to the employee; ( régime d’assurance-vie ) normal age of retirement , in respect of any employment or position of a person, means the maximum age applicable to that employment or position referred to in paragraph 14(b) of the Act or the age applicable to that employment or position referred to in paragraph 14(c) of the Act, as the case may be; ( âge normal de la retraite )