Interpretation
  1. (1) In this Regulation, “account-holder” means a consumer who has an account with a distributor that falls within a residential-rate classification as specified in a rate order made by the Board under section 78 of the Act, and who lives at the service address to which the account relates for at least six months in a year; “Cornwall Power” means Cornwall Street Railway Light & Power Company Limited; “Distribution System Code” means the Distribution System Code issued by the Board, as amended from time to time; “electricity-intensive medical device” means an oxygen concentrator, a mechanical ventilator or a kidney dialysis machine; “embedded distributor” means a licensed distributor who is not a market participant and to whom a host distributor distributes electricity; “embedded generator” means a generator who is not a market participant and whose generation facility is connected to a distribution system of a licensed distributor, but does not include a generator who consumes more electricity than it generates; “host distributor” means a licensed distributor who is a market participant and who distributes electricity to another licensed distributor who is not a market participant; “household” means the account-holder and any other people living at the accountholder’s service address for at least six months in a year, including people other than the account-holder’s spouse, children or other relatives; “household income” means the combined annual after-tax income of all members of a household aged 18 or over; “Indigenous  person” includes a person who is a First Nations person, a Métis person or an Inuit person; “licensed distributor” means a distributor who is licensed under Part V of the Act; “OESP” means the Ontario Electricity Support Program referred to in section 79.2 of the Act; “OESP administrative costs” means any payments the IESO is required by the Board to make, pursuant to the IESO’s licence, in respect of the implementation and administration of the OESP; “rate assistance” means OESP rate assistance under section 79.2 of the Act; “rate-assisted consumer” has the same meaning as in subsection 79.2 (18) of the Act. O. Reg. 108/17, s. 1; O. Reg. 207/17, s. 1. (2) For the purpose of section 79.2 of the Act and this Regulation, “lost revenue resulting from rate assistance” includes OESP administrative costs. (3) Despite subsection (1), when applications are processed pursuant to an agreement with the Minister of Community and Social Services under section 79.2.1 of the Act on behalf of an account-holder who is a recipient of income support under the Ontario Disability Support Program Act, 1997, who is an applicant that
satisfies the requirements set out in clauses 5 (1) (b) to (e) of that Act or who is a member of such a recipient’s or applicant’s benefit unit, as defined in that Act, “household” has the same meaning as “benefit unit” in the Ontario Disability Support Program Act, 1997. O. Reg. 207/17, s. 2. (4) Despite subsection (1), when applications are processed pursuant to an agreement with the Minister of Community and Social Services under section 79.2.1 of the Act on behalf of an account-holder who is a recipient of basic financial assistance under the Ontario Works Act, 1997, who is an applicant eligible for basic financial assistance under that Act or who is a member of such a recipient’s or applicant’s benefit unit, as defined in that Act, “household” has the same meaning as “benefit unit” in the Ontario Works Act, 1997. O. Reg. 207/17, s. 2.