Requirements for driving school licence
 18. (1) An applicant must satisfy the following requirements for the issue of a driving school licence: 1.  The applicant is competent to operate a driving school. 2.  The applicant satisfies the Minister that it holds all other applicable licenses that are required for the applicant to engage in a business and to operate a driving school. 3.  The applicant owns or leases premises for the driving school’s office. 4.  The applicant satisfies the Minister that the driving school’s office is in compliance with all applicable zoning restrictions. 5.  Revoked: O. Reg. 116/19, s. 4 (1). 5.1  The motor vehicles to be used to provide driving instruction comply with section 27. 6.  The curriculum for the driving school’s proposed driver education course is satisfactory to the Ministry. 6.1  For any portion of the curriculum referred to in paragraph 6 that involves classroom driving instruction, the driving school has a properly equipped and maintained classroom that complies with applicable zoning restrictions. 6.2  For any portion of the curriculum referred to in paragraph 6 that involves digital driving instruction, the driving school owns or licences any required digital software, equipment, applications or content. 7.  The applicant maintains general liability insurance in the amount of at least $2,000,000 with respect to any one incident that occurs in a classroom. 8.  The applicant has entered into a written contract for the employment or services of one or more licensed driving instructors to provide driving instruction. 9.  If the applicant is an individual, the applicant is a fit and proper person to operate a driving school, having regard to his or her character, integrity and past conduct. 10.  If the applicant is a partnership or corporation, the partners of the partnership or officers and directors of the corporation are fit and proper persons to operate a driving school, having regard to their character, integrity and past conduct. 11.  Any person related to the applicant satisfies the requirements of paragraph 9 or 10, as the case may be.  O. Reg. 473/07, s. 18 (1); O. Reg. 347/08, s. 6; O. Reg. 116/19, s. 4. (2) For the purpose of paragraph 11 of subsection (1), a person is related to an applicant in any of the following circumstances: 1.  The applicant and the person are individuals connected by blood relationship, marriage, common-law partnership, within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada), or adoption. 2.  The applicant is a partnership and the person is or was a partner of the partnership, or the person is a partnership and the applicant is or was a partner of the partnership. 3.  The applicant and the person are or were partners of the same partnership. 4.  Both the applicant and the person are corporations and, i.  the applicant controls, directly or indirectly, or manages the person, ii.  the applicant controlled, directly or indirectly, or managed the person, iii.  the person controls, directly or indirectly, or manages the applicant, or iv.  the person controlled, directly or indirectly, or managed the applicant. 5.  Both the applicant and the person are corporations and they are or were controlled, directly or indirectly, or managed by the same person. 6.  Both the applicant and the person are corporations and they have or have had common officers or directors.  O. Reg. 473/07, s. 18 (2). (3) Subject to section 35, the Minister shall refuse to issue a driving school licence to an applicant that does not satisfy the requirements of paragraphs 1 to 11 of subsection (1), and shall serve written notice of the refusal on the person.  O. Reg. 473/07, s. 18 (3).