The Minister is responsible for the administration of this Act and the Acts that are assigned to the Minister by the Legislature or by the Lieutenant Governor in Council. No action or other proceeding for damages shall be instituted against the Deputy Minister or any other employee of the Ministry or anyone acting under his or her authority for any act done in good faith in the execution or intended execution of his or her duty or for any alleged neglect or default in the execution in good faith of his or her duty. Where, as the result of the negligence or other wrongful act or omission of another person, any person suffers a loss for which the person receives a benefit from the Ministry, the Minister is subrogated to any right of the person sustaining the loss to recover the cost incurred for a past benefit provided to the person as a result of the loss and the cost that will probably be incurred for future benefits, and the Minister may bring action in his or her own name or in the name of the person receiving the benefit for the recovery of such costs. The Minister may designate in writing any person with power to perform an inspection of any book, record or account in respect of any payment made under any Act administered by the Ministry and may require a recipient of such payment to prepare and to submit to such person a financial statement that sets out the details of the disposition of the payment by the recipient. The Minister may designate one or more employees of the Ministry to be a commissioner or commissioners for taking affidavits within the meaning of the Commissioners for Taking Affidavits Act for the purpose of the Family Law Act .
Grants re social and credit counselling services, etc.
The Lieutenant Governor in Council or the Minister may, out of money appropriated therefor by the Legislature, direct payment from time to time of grants and contributions for consultation, research and evaluation services with respect to programs of social services, community services and social planning and for the provision, encouragement and development of credit counselling services and other social or community services. The Minister may from time to time, out of money appropriated by the Legislature, make a grant to or on behalf of a person who has a disability and who is at least sixteen years old, to assist the person in obtaining goods and services that the person requires as a result of the disability. The Minister may from time to time, out of money appropriated by the Legislature, make a grant to an organization, agency or other entity, if the organization, agency or other entity has entered into an agreement with the Crown in right of Ontario to transfer the grant to or on behalf of persons who have a disability and who are at least sixteen years old to assist such persons in obtaining goods and services that they require as a result of the disability. The Minister may impose conditions on a grant made under this section. The Minister may enter into agreements with organizations, municipalities or other persons or corporations respecting the provision of social services and community services including items, facilities and personnel relating thereto upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed and he or she may direct out of money appropriated by the Legislature the payment of such expenditures as are necessary for such purposes.