17 (1) Repealed:  1997, c. 19, s. 17 (2). Same (2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations respecting any matter necessary or advisable to carry out effectively the intent and purpose of this Act, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, may make regulations, (a) prescribing the amount of the guaranteed income limit; (b) prescribing the evidence to be furnished to the Minister to establish facts relevant to the entitlement of any person to receive an increment and to establish the amount of such increment; (c) authorizing a designated officer or class of officers employed by the Government of Ontario to exercise powers or perform duties of the Minister under this Act; (d) prescribing amounts that may be included in or excluded from defined income or income for the base calendar year; (e) defining intervals of absence from Ontario that shall be deemed not to have interrupted residence in Ontario; (f) providing for the suspension of payment of an increment during any investigation into the eligibility of a beneficiary, and the reinstatement or resumption of the payment thereof; (g) prescribing the manner in which any amount required by this Act to be deducted and retained out of any increment shall be so deducted and retained; (h) providing for the making of any application, statement or notification, or the doing of any other act or thing required or permitted by this Act, by any person or agency, and for the payment of a benefit to any person or agency on behalf of any other person or beneficiary where it is established, in such manner and by such evidence as may be prescribed, that such other person or beneficiary is, by reason of infirmity, illness, insanity or other cause, incapable of managing his or her own affairs, and prescribing the manner in which any increment authorized to be paid to any such person or agency shall be administered and expended for the benefit of the beneficiary and accounted for; (i) fixing a date, other than the 1st day of April, for the commencement of a fiscal year for the purposes of this Act, and extending or abridging the period of any fiscal year, current fiscal year or previous fiscal year to provide for the orderly transition to the prescribed fiscal year from the fiscal year in effect prior to the prescribing of a different fiscal year under this clause; (j) defining the meaning of private pension income for the purposes of this Act and the regulations; (k) prescribing, for the purposes of the definition of “eligible person” in subsection 1 (1), an age that is less than sixty-five years of age; (l) altering the provisions of the definition of “eligible person” in subsection 1 (1) by reducing or eliminating any period of residence therein specified; (m) prescribing dates other than those specified in subsection 5 (1) as of which the application may be approved before or after it was received; (n) prescribing persons or classes of persons, if they are approved by Human Resources Development Canada, for the purpose of clause 11 (2) (b).  R.S.O. 1990, c. O.17, s. 17 (2); 1999, c. 9, s. 176; 2009, c. 33, Sched. 16, s. 10. Idem (3) A regulation is, if it so provides, effective with reference to a period before it was filed.  R.S.O. 1990, c. O.17, s. 17 (3). Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 1997, c. 19, s. 17 (2) - 10/10/1997 1999, c. 9, s. 176 - 14/12/1999 2009, c. 33, Sched. 16, s. 10 - 15/12/2009