Definitions
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(1) In this Regulation, “agreement date” means the day the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada entered into an agreement providing for the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System; (“date de l’entente”) “base fee” means any fee or part of a fee that is charged in respect of a child for child care, including anything a licensee is required to provide under this Regulation or anything a licensee requires the parent to purchase from the licensee, but does not include a non-base fee; (“frais de base”) “Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System” means the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care System for early years and child care funding provided for in an agreement entered into by the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada; (“système pancanadien d’apprentissage et de garde des jeunes enfants”) “child with medical needs” means a child who has one or more chronic or acute medical conditions such that he or she requires additional supports, accommodation or assistance; (“enfant ayant des besoins médicaux”) “child with special needs” means a child whose cognitive, physical, social, emotional or communicative needs, or whose needs relating to overall development, are of such a nature that additional supports are required for the child; (“enfant ayant des besoins particuliers”) “eligible child” means, (a)  any child, until the last day of the month in which the child turns six years old, and (b)  up until June 30 in a calendar year, any child who, (i)  turns six years old between January 1 and June 30 in that calendar year, and (ii)  is enrolled in a licensed infant, toddler, preschool or kindergarten group, a licensed family age group, or home child care; (“enfant admissible”) “individualized plan” means, (a)  an individualized plan required under section 39 for a child with an anaphylactic allergy, (a.1)  an individualized plan required under section 39.1 for a child with medical needs, and (b)  an individualized support plan required under section 52 for a child with special needs; (“plan individualisé”) “inspector” means an inspector appointed under section 28 of the Act; (“inspecteur”) “licensed age group” means a group of children at a child care centre, where the group is in a specified age category set out in Schedule 1 for which a licensee is licensed to provide child care at the child care centre, and the terms “licensed infant group”, “licensed toddler group”, and so on, have corresponding meanings; (“groupe d’âge autorisé”) “licensed capacity” means the maximum number of children, including the number in each age category, allowed to be receiving child care in the child care centre at one time as set out in the licence of the child care centre; (“capacité autorisée”) “licensed family age group” is a group of children, whether or not from the same family, for which a licensee is licensed to provide child care at a child care centre in accordance with section 8.1; (“groupe autorisé de regroupement familial”) “mixed-age grouping” means placing, within a licensed age group, children whose age does not fall within the age range specified for the age category of the licensed age group, as set out in Schedule 1; (“regroupement d’enfants d’âge mixte”) “non-base fee” means, (a)  any fees charged for optional items or optional services, such as transportation or field trips, or (b)  any fees charged pursuant to an agreement between the parent and the licensee in respect of circumstances where the parent fails to meet the terms of the agreement, such as, (i)  fees for picking up a child late, and (ii)  fees to obtain items that the parent agreed to provide for their child but failed to provide; (“frais divers”) “program adviser” means a person designated under section 68 of the Act; (“conseiller en programmes”) “qualified employee” means a person described in section 54; (“employé qualifié”) “regulated health professional” means a health practitioner whose profession is regulated under the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991; (“professionnel de la santé réglementé”) “serious occurrence” means, (a)  the death of a child who received child care at a home child care premises or child care centre, (b)  abuse, neglect or an allegation of abuse or neglect of a child while receiving child care at a home child care premises or child care centre, (c)  a life-threatening injury to or a life-threatening illness of a child who receives child care at a home child care premises or child care centre, (c.1)  Revoked: O. Reg. 73/22, s. 1. (d)  an incident where a child who is receiving child care at a home child care premises or child care centre goes missing or is temporarily unsupervised, or (e)  an unplanned disruption of the normal operations of a home child care premises or child care centre that poses a risk to the health, safety or well-being of children receiving child care at the home child care premises or child care centre. (“incident grave”) O. Reg. 137/15, s. 1 (1); O. Reg. 126/16, s. 1; O. Reg. 51/18, s. 1; O. Reg. 261/20, s. 1 (1, 2); O. Reg. 442/20, s. 1; O. Reg. 633/20, s. 1 (1, 2); O. Reg. 174/21, s. 2; O. Reg. 73/22, s. 1; O. Reg. 236/22, s. 1; O. Reg. 469/22, s. 1. (2) Despite the definition of a “child with special needs” in subsection (1), nothing in this Regulation shall be interpreted as prohibiting a person with special needs who is older than 13 years but younger than 18 years from receiving a service set out in subsection 6 (1) of Ontario Regulation 138/15 (Funding, Cost Sharing and Financial Assistance) made under the Act. O. Reg. 137/15, s. 1 (2). (3) Revoked: O. Reg. 633/20, s. 1 (3).