Definitions
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For the purposes of Part XIII of the Act and this Regulation, “actuarial basis” means the assumptions and methods generally accepted and used by fellows of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries to establish, in relation to the contingencies of human life such as death, accident, sickness and disease, the costs of pension benefits, life insurance, disability insurance, health insurance and other similar benefits, including their actuarial equivalents; (“méthode actuarielle”) “age” means any age of 18 years or more and less than 65 years; (“âge”) “benefits” includes, (a) an aggregate, annual, monthly or other periodic amount or the accrual of such an amount to which an employee, or the employee’s beneficiaries, survivors or dependants is, are or will become entitled under a benefit plan provided on superannuation, retirement, disability, accident or sickness, (b) any medical, hospital, nursing, drug or dental expenses or other similar amounts or expenses paid under a benefit plan, and (c) any amounts under a benefit plan to which an employee is entitled on termination of employment or to which any person is entitled upon the death of an employee; (“prestations”) “dependant” means a dependant as defined in the relevant benefit plan, and “dependent child” and “dependent spouse” have corresponding meanings; (“personne à charge”) “disability benefit plan” means a benefit plan that provides benefits to an employee for loss of income because of sickness, accident or disability; (“régime de prestations d’invalidité”) “former Act” means the Employment Standards Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. E.14; (“ancienne loi”) “health benefit plan” means a benefit plan that provides benefits to an employee, a spouse or a dependant of an employee or deceased employee for medical, hospital, nursing, drug or dental expenses or other similar expenses; (“régime de prestations de maladie”) “life insurance plan” means a benefit plan that, on the employee’s death, provides a lump sum or periodic payments to the employee’s beneficiary, survivor or dependant, and includes accidental death and dismemberment insurance; (“régime d’assurance-vie”) “long-term disability benefit plan” means a disability benefit plan under which the payments or benefits to an employee are payable for a period of not less than 52 weeks or until recovery, retirement or death, whichever period is shorter; (“régime de prestations d’invalidité de longue durée”) “marital status” includes, (a) the condition of being an unmarried person who is supporting, in whole or in part, a dependent child or children, and (b) common law status as defined in the relevant benefit plan; (“état matrimonial”) “normal pensionable date” means the date specified in a pension plan at which an employee can retire from his or her employment and receive the regular pension benefit provided by the pension plan, whether the date is the day on which the employee attains a given age or the day on which he or she has completed a given period of employment; (“date normale de retraite”) “pension plan” means a benefit plan that provides benefits to a participating employee or to his or her spouse or dependant, on the employee’s retirement or termination of employment, out of contributions made by the employer or the employee or both and the investment income, gains, losses and expenses on or from those contributions, and includes, (a) a unit-benefit pension plan, under which the benefits are determined with reference to a percentage of salary or wages and length of employment or a specified period of employment, (b) a defined benefit pension plan, under which the benefits are determined as a fixed amount and with reference to length of employment or a specified period of employment, (c) a money purchase pension plan, under which the benefits are determined with reference to the accumulated amount of the contributions paid by or for the credit of an employee, and the investment income, gains, losses and expenses on or from those contributions, (d) a profit sharing pension plan, under which payments or contributions by an employer are determined by reference to profits or out of profits from the employer’s business, and the benefits are determined with reference to the accumulated amount of contributions paid by or for the credit of an employee and the investment income, gains, losses and expenses on or from those contributions, (e) a composite pension plan, which is any combination of the pension plans described in clauses (a) to (d), and (f) a pooled registered pension plan; (“régime de retraite”) “pooled registered pension plan” has the same meaning as in the Pooled Registered Pension Plans Act, 2015; (“régime de pension agréé collectif”) “sex” includes, (a) a distinction between employees that excludes an employee from a benefit under a benefit plan or gives an employee a preference to a benefit under a benefit plan because the employee is or is not a head of household, principal or primary wage earner or other similar condition, and (b) a distinction between employees in a benefit plan because of the pregnancy of a female employee; (“sexe”) “short-term disability benefit plan” means a disability benefit plan other than a long-term disability benefit plan; (“régime de prestations d’invalidité de courte durée”) “spouse” means a spouse as defined in the relevant benefit plan; (“conjoint”) “voluntary additional contribution” means an additional contribution by an employee under a pension plan, except a contribution whose payment, under the terms of the plan, obliges the employer to make a concurrent additional contribution. (“cotisation facultative supplémentaire”)  O. Reg. 286/01, s. 1; O. Reg. 335/05, s. 1; O. Reg. 527/17, s. 1.