Application and interpretation
 1. (1) This Regulation applies to boards for the 2016-2017 fiscal year and to governing authorities in respect of payments for the period from September 1, 2016 to August 31, 2017. (2) In this Regulation, “2006-2007 grant regulation” means Ontario Regulation 341/06 (Grants for Student Needs — Legislative Grants for the 2006-2007 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act, as it read immediately before it was revoked; (“règlement sur les subventions de 2006-2007”) “2007-2008 grant regulation” means Ontario Regulation 152/07 (Grants for Student Needs — Legislative Grants for the 2007-2008 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act, as it read immediately before it was revoked; (“règlement sur les subventions de 2007-2008”) “2008-2009 grant regulation” means Ontario Regulation 85/08 (Grants for Student Needs — Legislative Grants for the 2008-2009 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act, as it read immediately before it was revoked; (“règlement sur les subventions de 2008-2009”) “2009-2010 grant regulation” means Ontario Regulation 155/09 (Grants for Student Needs — Legislative Grants for the 2009-2010 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act, as it read immediately before it was revoked; (“règlement sur les subventions de 2009-2010”) “2010-2011 grant regulation” means Ontario Regulation 196/10 (Grants for Student Needs — Legislative Grants for the 2010-2011 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act, as it read immediately before it was revoked; (“règlement sur les subventions de 2010-2011”) “2011-2012 grant regulation” means Ontario Regulation 160/11 (Grants for Student Needs — Legislative Grants for the 2011-2012 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act, as it read immediately before it was revoked; (“règlement sur les subventions de 2011-2012”) “2012-2013 grant regulation” means Ontario Regulation 136/12 (Grants for Student Needs — Legislative Grants for the 2012-2013 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act, as it read immediately before it was revoked; (“règlement sur les subventions de 2012-2013”) “2013-2014 grant regulation” means Ontario Regulation 120/13 (Grants for Student Needs — Legislative Grants for the 2013-2014 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act, as it read immediately before it was revoked; (“règlement sur les subventions de 2013-2014”) “2014-2015 grant regulation” means Ontario Regulation 76/14 (Grants for Student Needs — Legislative Grants for the 2014-2015 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act; (“règlement sur les subventions de 2014-2015”) “2015-2016 grant regulation” means Ontario Regulation 195/15 (Grants for Student Needs — Legislative Grants for the 2015-2016 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act; (“règlement sur les subventions de 2015-2016”) “2016-2017 A.D.E. regulation” means Ontario Regulation 217/16 (Calculation of Average Daily Enrolment for the 2016-2017 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act; (“règlement sur l’effectif quotidien moyen de 2016-2017”) “2016-2017 fees regulation” means Ontario Regulation 216/16 (Calculation of Fees for Pupils for the 2016-2017 School Board Fiscal Year) made under the Act; (“règlement sur les droits de 2016-2017”) “ALF” stands for actualisation linguistique en français; (“ALF”) “campus” means a property on which one or more schools are located and in respect of which the same campus identification number has been assigned by the Ministry to all of the schools located on the property; (“campus”) “capital asset” means, (a) a
school site that provides or is capable of providing pupil accommodation and an addition or improvement to such a school site, (b) a
school building, fixture of a school building or fixture of school property, and an addition, alteration, renovation or major repair to a school building, fixture of a school building or fixture of school property, (c) furniture and equipment to be used in school buildings, (d) library materials for the initial equipping of a library in a school building, (e) an installation on school property to supply a school building on the property with water, sewer, septic, electrical, heating, cooling, natural gas, telephone or cable services, and an alteration, replacement or major repair to the installation, and (f) changes to the level, drainage or surface of school properties; (“immobilisation”) “capital asset cost” means an expense that the board is required to capitalize under the terms of the document entitled “District School Board and School Authority Tangible Capital Assets: Provincial Accounting Policies and Implementation Guide”, revised April 2015, which is available as described in subsection 3 (2); (“coût des immobilisations”) “cycle” has the same meaning as in the 2016-2017 A.D.E. regulation; (“horaire”) “distant combined school” means a qualifying combined school that is located at least 20 kilometres but less than 45 kilometres from every other qualifying sole secondary school and qualifying combined school of the board; (“école combinée éloignée”) “distant elementary school” means a qualifying sole elementary school that is located at least 10 kilometres but less than 20 kilometres from every other qualifying sole elementary school of the board; (“école élémentaire éloignée”) “distant secondary school” means a qualifying sole secondary school that is located at least 20 kilometres but less than 45 kilometres from every other qualifying sole secondary school and qualifying combined school of the board; (“école secondaire éloignée”) “ELD” stands for English literacy development; (“ELD”) “elementary school pupil” means a pupil who is enrolled in any of junior kindergarten, kindergarten and grades 1 to 8; (“élève de l’élémentaire”) “ESL” stands for English as a second language; (“ESL”) “isolate board” is a school authority other than a section 68 board; (“conseil isolé”) “outlying combined school” means a qualifying combined school that is located at least 45 kilometres from every other qualifying sole secondary school and qualifying combined school of the board; (“école combinée excentrée”) “outlying elementary school” means a qualifying sole elementary school that is located at least 20 kilometres from every other qualifying sole elementary school of the board; (“école élémentaire excentrée”) “outlying secondary school” means a qualifying sole secondary school that is located at least 45 kilometres from every other qualifying sole secondary school and qualifying combined school of the board; (“école secondaire excentrée”) “PANA” stands for programme d’appui aux nouveaux arrivants; (“PANA”) “qualifying combined school” means a qualifying combined school under subsection (4); (“école combinée admissible”) “qualifying sole elementary school” means a qualifying sole elementary school under subsection (4); (“école élémentaire admissible”) “qualifying sole secondary school” means a qualifying sole secondary school under subsection (4); (“école secondaire admissible”) “regular combined school” means a qualifying combined school that is not an outlying combined school or a distant combined school; (“école combinée ordinaire”) “regular elementary school” means a qualifying sole elementary school that is not an outlying elementary school or distant elementary school; (“école élémentaire ordinaire”) “regular secondary school” means a qualifying sole secondary school that is not an outlying secondary school or distant secondary school; (“école secondaire ordinaire”) “revenue from other sources” means, with respect to a district school board, the revenue of the board other than, (a) the amount of grants payable to the board under this Regulation, and (b) the amount that would be the board’s 2016-2017 tax revenue amount if no amount were required to be deducted under paragraph 3 of subsection 15 (1); (“recettes provenant d’autres sources”) “rural elementary school” means, with respect to a board, an elementary school that is identified as an elementary school in accordance with the document entitled “User Guide for the School Facilities Inventory System Application”, dated November 2009, which is available as described in subsection 3 (3), that has a 2016-2017 enrolment, within the meaning of subsection 49 (4), greater than zero, and that meets at least one of the following two criteria: 1. On October 31, 2016, the second character of the school’s postal code is 0. 2. The school is listed in Column 3 of Table 1 opposite the name of the board in Column 1 of that Table; (“école élémentaire rurale”) “rural secondary school” means, with respect to a board, a secondary school that is identified as a secondary school in accordance with the document entitled “User Guide for the School Facilities Inventory System Application”, dated November 2009, which is available as described in subsection 3 (3), that has a 2016-2017 enrolment, within the meaning of subsection 49 (4), greater than zero, and that meets at least one of the following two criteria: 1. On October 31, 2016, the second character of the school’s postal code is 0. 2. The school is listed in Column 4 of Table 1 opposite the name of the board in Column 1 of that Table; (“école secondaire rurale”) “School Foundation Allocation Table” means the Table set out in the document entitled “List of schools eligible for School Foundation Allocation for the 2016-2017 school year”, revised September 2018, which is available as described in subsection 3 (1); (“tableau de l’élément éducation de base pour les écoles”) “secondary school pupil” means a pupil who is enrolled in any of grades 9 to 12; (“élève du secondaire”) “section 68 board” is a board established under section 68 of the Act. (“conseil créé en vertu de l’article 68”) O. Reg. 215/16, s. 1 (2); O. Reg. 242/17, s. 1; O. Reg. 434/18, s. 1. (3) The following rules apply for the purposes of the definitions in subsection (2): 1. A measure of distance shall be by road and shall be accurate to 0.1 kilometres. 2. A qualifying sole elementary school, a qualifying sole secondary school or a qualifying combined school under subsection (4) that is located on an island that is not connected by road to the mainland shall be considered an outlying elementary school, an outlying secondary school or an outlying combined school, as the case may be, unless the school is located in the City of Toronto, in which case it shall be considered a regular elementary school, a regular secondary school or a regular combined school, as the case may be. 3. Where two or more qualifying sole elementary schools are treated as one qualifying sole elementary school under paragraph 4 of subsection (4), the qualifying sole elementary school within the group that has the largest capacity, within the meaning of subsection 61 (3), shall be used as the starting point for the purpose of measuring distance. 4. Where two or more qualifying sole secondary schools are treated as one qualifying sole secondary school under paragraph 5 of subsection (4), the qualifying sole secondary school within the group that has the largest capacity, within the meaning of subsection 61 (4), shall be used as the starting point for the purpose of measuring distance. 5. The school that, among the schools making up a qualifying combined school under paragraph 2 of subsection (4), has the greatest capacity within the meaning of subsection 61 (3) or (4), as the case may be, shall be used as the starting point for the purpose of measuring distance. 6. The distance between schools shall be determined as of June 30, 2017. (4) The following rules determine whether a school is a qualifying sole elementary school, a qualifying sole secondary school or a part of a qualifying combined school: 1. A school of the board is a qualifying elementary or secondary school of the board if, i. it is identified as an elementary or secondary school in accordance with the document entitled “User Guide for the School Facilities Inventory System Application”, dated November 2009, which is available as described in subsection 3 (3) and is listed in Column 4 of the School Foundation Allocation Table opposite the name of the school and the name of the board, and ii. it has a 2016-2017 enrolment of more than zero. 2. If one or more qualifying elementary schools of the board and one or more qualifying secondary schools of the board have the same school identification number, as set out in Column 5 of the School Foundation Allocation Table opposite the name of the school and the name of the board, the schools make up a qualifying combined school of the board. 3. Any qualifying school that is not part of a qualifying combined school is a qualifying sole elementary school or a qualifying sole secondary school, as the case may be. 4. Despite paragraph 3, two or more qualifying sole elementary schools of the board shall be treated as if they were one qualifying sole elementary school if they have the same school identification number, as set out in Column 5 of the School Foundation Allocation Table opposite the name of the school and the name of the board. 5. Despite paragraph 3, two or more qualifying sole secondary schools of the board shall be treated as if they were one qualifying sole secondary school if they have the same school identification number, as set out in Column 5 of the School Foundation Allocation Table opposite the name of the school and the name of the board.