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(1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations governing the management, operation and use of day nurseries and private-home day care agencies and classes of either of them and premises where private-home day care is provided by a private-home day care agency and governing the provision of financial assistance to persons who are charged fees in respect of extended day programs, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing may make regulations, (a) defining “common parentage” for the purpose of the definition of “day nursery” under section 1; (a.1) respecting the powers and duties of administrators; (a.2) prescribing the powers and duties of a delivery agent; (b) governing the accommodation, facilities, equipment and services to be provided in, (i) day nurseries, and (ii) premises where private-home day care is provided by a private-home day care agency, or any class thereof; (c) governing the establishment, construction, alteration and renovation of, (i) day nurseries, and (ii) premises where private-home day care is provided by a private-home day care agency, or any class thereof; (d) prescribing the conditions to be maintained in private residences where private-home day care is furnished under an agreement between a municipality, a delivery agent, a council of the band or the Minister and any person; (e) providing for the inspection of private residences in which private-home day care is furnished under an agreement between a municipality, a delivery agent, the council of the band or the Minister and any person; (f) prescribing the qualifications of persons supervising children in a day nursery or any class thereof or on a premises where private-home day care is provided under an agreement between a municipality, a delivery agent, the council of the band or the Minister and any person; (g) establishing and approving courses of instruction for persons supervising children in day nurseries or any class thereof or on premises where private-home day care is provided and providing for the granting of certificates to those persons who have satisfactorily completed the course of instruction or who otherwise meet the prescribed qualifications; (h) governing the issuance, renewal and expiration of licences and the fees payable by an applicant for a licence or renewal thereof; (i) governing applications by municipalities, delivery agents, bands and approved corporations for payments under this Act and prescribing the method, time, manner and the terms and conditions for the payment thereof and providing for the suspension and withholding of payment and for the making of deductions from payments; (j) requiring the approval of the Minister of budgets submitted and expenditures incurred for the purposes of this Act and the regulations by municipalities, delivery agents, bands and approved corporations; (k) prescribing classes of corporations with members that may be approved under section 6 and specifying corporations not members of such classes that may be approved under section 6; (l) prescribing classes of payment for the purposes of this Act and determining the amount of any such payment; (l.1) respecting the costs incurred under this Act to which cost sharing should apply and providing for how they are to be shared, including the apportioning of those costs among Ontario, municipalities and persons living in territory without municipal organization, and prescribing the municipalities to which cost sharing applies; (l.2) respecting the determination of the amounts Ontario shall pay to delivery agents and delivery agents shall pay to Ontario and the methods of determining those amounts, providing for the manner in which and the intervals at which payments shall be made, for the suspension or withholding of amounts payable by Ontario or part of them and for making deductions from them; (l.3) respecting the apportionment among municipalities in a geographic area of their share of the delivery agent’s costs incurred under this Act and, for the purpose, prescribing the municipalities that must share in that apportionment and the manner in which that share shall be recovered; (l.4) providing for the recovery by Ontario from a municipality or a delivery agent of any amounts paid by Ontario under this Act for which the municipality or delivery agent is liable and prescribing the circumstances and manner in which any recovery may be made; (l.5) providing that, until a delivery agent is designated for a geographic area, the costs incurred under this Act be apportioned by a prescribed municipality or a prescribed board in accordance with a regulation under subsection (3) among the municipalities in the area, requiring the municipalities to pay their share of the costs to the prescribed municipality or board, and prescribing the municipality or board for such purposes; (m) prescribing the manner of computing costs for the purposes of this Act; (n) prescribing classes of capital payment for the purposes of section 9, the circumstances under which any such payment or class thereof may be paid, and determining the amounts of any such payments or classes thereof; (o) prescribing the accounts and records to be kept, claims, returns, and reports to be made and information to be provided and requiring budgets to be submitted by municipalities, delivery agents, bands, approved corporations, private-home day care agencies and day nurseries and prescribing to whom such information is to be provided; (p) governing the confidentiality of, (i) accounts and records required to be kept and claims, returns and reports to be made under this Act and the regulations, and (ii) information provided to a day nursery, private-home day care agency or school board; (q) prescribing the amounts to be contributed towards the cost of private-home day care, services provided in a day nursery or extended day programs on behalf of persons in receipt of such services, and prescribing persons required to contribute such amounts; (r) prescribing forms and providing for their use; (s) prescribing additional powers and duties of a Director; (t) prescribing the terms and conditions upon which in-home services or any class thereof may be provided and prescribing the class or classes of person who may be eligible for such in-home services; (u) for the purposes of this Act and the regulations, defining “services” and “facilities” and prescribing classes of services and facilities; (v) prescribing terms and conditions to be included in any agreement entered into under section 3, 4 or 5; (w) exempting designated approved corporations, day nurseries, municipalities, delivery agents, bands, or private-home day care agencies from specified provisions of this Act or the regulations for such period or periods of time as the regulations prescribe; (x) governing the fees that shall be charged for services provided for private-home day care or in a day nursery; (y) prescribing additional powers and duties of program advisers; (z) prescribing “special circumstances” for the purposes of clause 8 (4) (b); (z.1) prescribing any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed; (z.2) defining any word or expression used in this Act that has not been defined in this Act; (z.3) governing the application of the provisions of this Act and the regulations to circumstances in which a school board and the Minister enter into an agreement regarding the provision of financial assistance to persons who are charged fees in respect of extended day programs; (z.4) if the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers it advisable, adapting or modifying the provisions of this Act and the regulations for the purpose of their application to the circumstances referred to in clause (z.3); (z.5) providing for such transitional matters as the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers advisable relating to the provision of financial assistance for extended day programs.  R.S.O. 1990, c. D.2, s. 18; 1997, c. 30, Sched. C, s. 8 (1-10); 2010, c. 10, s. 27. Regulations, Minister (2) The Minister may make regulations, (a) prescribing what delivery agents and municipalities are required to do in carrying out their functions and the procedures and practices to be followed by delivery agents; (b) designating geographic areas and delivery agents for those geographic areas, for the purposes of this Act; (c) prescribing policy statements which shall be applied in the interpretation and application of this Act and the regulations.  1997, c. 30, Sched. C, s. 8 (11). Apportionment, payment by municipalities (3) A regulation under clause (1) (l.3) or (l.5) may do one or more of the following: 1. Authorize municipalities in a geographic area to determine by agreement how their costs are to be apportioned, subject to the prescribed conditions. 2. Provide for an arbitration process for determining how the costs of those municipalities are to be apportioned. 3. Set out the manner in which costs of those municipalities are to be apportioned.  1997, c. 30, Sched. C, s. 8 (11). Same (4) A regulation under paragraph 1 or 2 of subsection (3) may, (a) provide for the manner in which costs are to be apportioned and for the time and manner in which they are to be paid, on an interim basis, until such time as an agreement is reached or as a determination is made by arbitration; (b) permit an agreement or the arbitration decision to apply to costs incurred and paid before the agreement or the arbitration decision is reached; and (c) provide for the reconciliation of amounts paid on an interim basis.  1997, c. 30, Sched. C, s. 8 (11). Retroactive regulation (5) A regulation under clause (1) (l.1), (l.2), (l.3), (l.4), (l.5) or (m) may, if it so provides, be effective with respect to a period before it is filed that commences on January 1, 1998.  1997, c. 30, Sched. C, s. 8 (11). Same (6) If a regulation under paragraph 3 of subsection (3) is retroactive, it may provide for the reconciliation of amounts paid.  1997, c. 30, Sched. C, s. 8 (11).