Regulations
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The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations, (a) designating facilities or classes of facilities to which this Act and the regulations apply and limiting, restricting or exempting any such facility or class of facility from the application of any part of the regulations; (b) respecting the construction, renovation, alteration and maintenance of any facility or class of facility; (c) respecting the management, conduct, operation, use and control of any facility or class of facility; (d) prescribing the accommodation, facilities, equipment and services in any facility or class of facility; (e) providing for the officers and staff and prescribing their duties and qualifications in any facility or class of facility; (f) prescribing the procedure for selecting and evaluating the site of any facility or class of facility and for the development and preparation of plans for the site and buildings and for the information to be contained in such plans; (g) providing for the approval of facilities within a class and prescribing the terms and conditions upon which any such facility may be approved for persons with a developmental disability; (h) for the purposes of this Act and the regulations, defining “assistance” and “services” and prescribing classes of services and classes of assistance and the items, services and payments to be included in any such definition or in any such class of services or class of assistance and prescribing the terms and conditions upon which such services or assistance or any class thereof may be provided; (i) prescribing the classes of grants or allowances by way of provincial aid to or for the benefit of persons with a developmental disability or believed to have a developmental disability, or to or for any facility or class of facility and the methods of determining the amounts of such grants or allowances, the terms and conditions for the payment thereof and providing for the manner, times and methods of payment and the suspension and withholding of grants and allowances and for the making of deductions from grants and allowances; (j) prescribing the persons or classes of persons who may be eligible for services and assistance or any class thereof and prescribing the terms and conditions of eligibility for services and assistance or any classes thereof requiring information to be submitted and providing for the investigation and determination of eligibility for such services or assistance or any classes thereof; (k) prescribing the charges that shall be made for the provision of services and assistance or any class thereof to a person with a developmental disability or believed to have a developmental disability and limiting, restricting or exempting the persons or any class of persons to whom such charges shall be made; (l) prescribing the persons and authorities or classes of persons or authorities that are liable for or exempted from the cost of services and assistance or any class of services or assistance to persons with a developmental disability or believed to have a developmental disability and prescribing rules for determining the amounts to be contributed towards the cost of such services or assistance or class thereof by the person or authority or class of person or authority who are liable therefor; (m) providing for the recovery of any sum as a debt due to the Crown or to the board of any facility in any court of competent jurisdiction from any person or his or her estate or authority liable therefor, of the cost or any part of the cost of any services or assistance or any class thereof provided to or for a person with a developmental disability or believed to have a developmental disability; (n) providing for an agreement to be entered into with or on behalf of any resident or class of resident in a facility or in any class of facility, for the administrator in charge of the facility or class of facility, to receive, hold and administer real and personal property of the resident or class of resident in trust for certain purposes, and providing for the terms and conditions of trust upon which the administrator may receive and hold such property; (o) providing for the establishment of in-service training programs for members of the staff of any facility or class of facility; (p) providing for any parent or guardian of a child with a developmental disability or believed to have a developmental disability to enter into agreement with the Minister or any child welfare authority appointed by the Minister, for the purposes of providing services or assistance or any class thereof, and providing for the terms and conditions in any such agreement upon which such services or assistance or any class thereof may be provided; (q) governing applications for payment of grants or allowances under this Act; (r) prescribing the records and accounts to be kept in respect of facilities or class of facilities, the claims and returns to be made to the Minister and the method, time and manner in which such claims and returns are to be made; (s) prescribing additional duties of officers or persons appointed by the Minister under section 34; (t) respecting the examination of persons and the admission, transfer, discharge and placement of residents; (u) prescribing rules governing the operation, management functions and powers of boards appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council under subsection 3 (2); (v) prescribing forms and providing for their use; (w) providing, with respect to corporations that were approved corporations and homes that were approved homes under the Homes for Retarded Persons Act before its repeal by the Homes for Retarded Persons Repeal Act, 2001, for such transitional matters as the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers advisable in relation to the designation of such homes as facilities under this Act. R.S.O. 1990, c. D.11, s. 36; 2001, c. 13, s. 2 (11-17). ______________ Français