jswizzle3737/ontario_laws_and_regs huggingface dataset:
Definitions
1. In this Act, “board” means a board as defined in subsection 1 (1) of the Education Act, other than a board established under section 68 of the Education Act, or The Metropolitan Toronto French-language School Council and The Ottawa-Carleton French-language School Board but includes the public sector and the Roman Catholic sector of The Ottawa-Carleton French-language School Board; (“conseil”) “commercial assessment” means, according to the last returned assessment roll, (a) the assessment of real property that is used as the basis for computing business assessment including the assessment for real property that is rented and occupied or used by the Crown in right of Canada or a province or territory of Canada, or a board, agency or commission thereof, or a municipal corporation or a local board thereof, (b) business assessment, and (c) the assessment for mineral lands, pipe lines and railway lands, other than railway lands actually in use for residential and farming purposes; (“évaluation relative aux activités commerciales”) “defence property” means the prescribed lands and premises of defence establishments belonging to Canada; (“propriété de la défense nationale”) “French-language instructional unit” and “French-speaking person” have the same meaning as in section 288 of the Education Act; (“module scolaire de langue française”, “francophone”) “prescribed” means prescribed by the regulations; (“prescrit”) “regulations” means the regulations made under this Act; (“règlements”) “residential and farm assessment”, according to the last returned assessment roll, means the assessment for real property, except for the assessment for real property referred to in clauses (a) and (c) of the definition of “commercial assessment”; (“évaluation résidentielle et agricole”) “weighted assessment”, in respect of a prescribed municipality for a year, means the sum of, (a) the residential and farm assessment of the prescribed municipality used for taxation in that year, and (b) an amount of assessment that is equal to the quotient obtained by dividing the commercial assessment for that year by 0.85, determined for elementary school purposes or secondary school purposes, or both, as the case requires. (“évaluation pondérée”) R.S.O. 1990, c. M.47, s. 1.
Allocation to boards
2. (1) A prescribed municipality that receives in a year, or that is entitled to receive in a year, a payment or grant in lieu of taxes from Canada in respect of defence property for school purposes shall allocate to the boards that have jurisdiction in the municipality that portion of the payment or grant that is prescribed. Proportion of allocation (2) The portion of the amount of the payment or grant in lieu of taxes referred to in subsection (1) received or receivable by the prescribed municipality shall be allocated to the boards that have jurisdiction in the municipality in the ratio that the weighted assessment supporting each board in the municipality bears to the total of the weighted assessment supporting the boards in the municipality. Adjustment of allocation (3) An amount that is allocated to a board under this section shall be deducted from, (a) the requisition of the board that makes an apportionment to the prescribed municipality by means of a requisition; or (b) the requisition submitted by a metropolitan corporation for the school purposes of a board of education having jurisdiction in the prescribed municipality, and the net amount of the requisition shall be the amount included in the levy for the purposes of section 155 of the Municipal Act. Idem (4) An amount that is allocated to a board under this section shall be used to adjust the mill rate required to be levied for school purposes by the prescribed municipality by a board that makes an apportionment by such means and the rate as adjusted to reflect the allocation to that board, despite subsection 120 (1) of the Education Act, shall be the rate levied for school purposes for that board in the prescribed municipality. Allocation for elementary or secondary purposes (5) An allocation under this section shall be made for elementary school purposes or for secondary school purposes or for both elementary school purposes and secondary school purposes as may be prescribed and shall be deemed to be revenue of the board from taxes levied for such school purposes. R.S.O. 1990, c. M.47, s. 2.
Residence on defence property
3. (1) Despite section 45 of the Education Act, a person who resides with his or her parent or guardian on defence property in a prescribed municipality that makes an allocation under section 2 is entitled to attend an elementary school or a secondary school, as the case requires, in accordance with this section without payment of a fee. Entitlement (2) A person who resides with his or her parent or guardian on defence property in a prescribed municipality, (a) whose parent or guardian is a Roman Catholic within the meaning of the Education Act, is entitled to attend a school operated by a board of education or a separate school board that has jurisdiction in the prescribed municipality; (b) whose parent or guardian is a French-speaking person, is entitled to attend a French-language instructional unit that is operated or provided by a board that has jurisdiction in the prescribed municipality; (c) where the prescribed municipality is an area municipality in The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, is entitled to attend a school that is operated by a board of education that has jurisdiction in The Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto and if the parent or guardian is a French-speaking person is entitled to attend a school operated by The Metropolitan Toronto French-language School Council; and (d) in all cases, other than those referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c), is entitled to attend a school that is operated by a board of education that has jurisdiction in the prescribed municipality. R.S.O. 1990, c. M.47, s. 3.
Regulations
4. (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations, (a) respecting any matter that is referred to as prescribed by the regulations; (b) prescribing the portion of the amount of a payment or grant in lieu of taxes received in respect of defence property for school purposes that is to be allocated by prescribed municipalities to boards under this Act. Retroactive (2) A regulation is, if it so provides, effective with respect to a period before it is filed but not before the 1st day of January, 1988. R.S.O. 1990, c. M.47, s. 4. ______________ Français