Regulations
17.  (1) The Minister may make regulations, (a) prescribing any form, notification or statement to be prescribed or that is required by this Act or that, in his or her opinion, will assist in the administration of this Act, and prescribing how and by whom any form, notification or statement shall be completed and what information it shall contain and requiring any information to be verified by statutory declaration; (b) prescribing classes of persons to be eligible persons who reside in a premises that is not a housing unit; (c) prescribing by class or type the kinds of institutions that are not housing units; (d) providing for the payment of interest where no grant was payable or on over-payments of a grant and prescribing the rate of interest payable thereon; (e) prescribing the manner in which occupancy costs shall be attributed for the purposes of subsection 4(2). Idem (2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations, (a) prescribing the evidence to be furnished to the Minister to establish facts relevant to the entitlement of any person to receive a grant and to establish the amount of such grant; (b) authorizing a designated officer or class of officers employed by the Government of Ontario to exercise powers or perform duties of the Minister under this Act; (c) prescribing the manner in which any amount required by this Act to be deducted and retained out of any grant shall be so deducted and retained; (d) prescribing any amount greater than the amount set out in clause 2(2)(a) or set out in section 7; (e) prescribing the conditions of eligibility to any grant payable under this Act; (f) defining any word or expression for the purposes of this Act and the regulations that has not already been expressly defined in this Act; (g) prescribing any condition that an applicant must meet prior to receiving a grant; (h) prescribing any matter required by this Act to be prescribed by the regulations. Retroactivity (3) A regulation is, if it so provides, effective with reference to a period before it was filed. R.S.O. 1990, c.O.33, s.17. NOTES Subsections 14(25) to (27) and sections 15 and 16 of Bill 31 (1992, chapter 25) passed at the Second Session of the Thirty-fifth Legislature read as follows: Same (25) Subsection 2(2.1) of the Ontario Pensioners Property Tax Assistance Act, as enacted by subsection 13(3) of this Act, applies to grants payable in respect of 1992 and subsequent years. Same (26) The amendment to subsection 5(2) of the Ontario Pensioners Property Tax Assistance Act, as set out in subsection 13(5) of this Act, applies to 1988 and subsequent years. Same (27) Subsection 5(3) of the Ontario Pensioners Property Tax Assistance Act, as set out in subsection 13(6) of this Act, applies to the 1992 year. Deemed references 15. For the purposes of the application of the Income Tax Act or the Ontario Pensioners Property Tax Assistance Act in respect of a period before the 31st day of December, 1991, a reference in this Act or in an enactment contained in this Act to a section or part of a section of either of those Acts shall be deemed to refer to the corresponding section or part of a section of the predecessor of that Act as the predecessor Act existed at the appropriate date. Commencement 16. (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), this Act comes into force on the day it receives Royal Assent. Same (2) Sections 1 and 2 and subsections 3(2), (3), (5), (7), (9), (10), (11), (13), (14) and (16) and subsections 13(1), (2), (3), (4), (6), (7) and (8) shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of January, 1992. Same (3) Subsections 3(6), (8), (12) and (15) come into force on the 1st day of January, 1993. ____________________ Français