Definitions
1.  In this Act, “applicant” means an individual who has applied for a grant under this Act; (“auteur de la demande”) “application” means an application for a grant under this Act; (“demande”) “eligible person” means an individual who is ordinarily resident in Ontario and, (a) is eligible to receive a pension under Part I of the Old Age Security Act (Canada), or (b) is a Canadian citizen or a person who has been lawfully admitted to Canada for permanent residence and has attained the age of sixty-five years on or before the 31st day of December in the year in respect of which a grant is applied for under subsection 2(1), and incurs, or whose spouse incurs, occupancy cost; (“personne admissible”) “family unit” means, (a) an individual and his or her spouse, or (b) any individuals occupying the same principal residence, whether or not they are related to each other; (“famille”) “housing unit” includes, (a) subject to clauses (b) and (c), any premises that an individual ordinarily occupies and inhabits as his or her residence in the year, but does not include, (b) premises that are part of a chronic care facility or other similar institution that is prescribed, or that are part of any charitable institution, home for special care, home for the aged, public nursing home, or private nursing home, or (c) premises, during such time in the year as, (i) such premises are exempt from the payment of taxes levied under the Provincial Land Tax Act, the Local Roads Boards Act or taxes for municipal and school purposes levied in respect of real property in Ontario that is assessed as residential or farm property, or (ii) the owner does not pay a grant equal to the full amount of the taxes described in subclause (i) that would, if such premises were not exempt, be payable or a grant equal to an amount prescribed by the Minister in respect of such premises or class of premises; (“logement”) “Minister” means the Minister of Revenue or such other member of the Executive Council to whom the administration of this Act is assigned; (“ministre”) “municipal tax” means, (a) taxes for municipal and school purposes levied in respect of real property in Ontario that is assessed as residential or farm property, (b) taxes levied for local improvements to real property in Ontario, (c) taxes levied under the Provincial Land Tax Act or the Local Roads Boards Act, and (d) such other taxes or special rates as are prescribed; (“impôt municipal”) “occupancy cost” means, (a) municipal tax paid or payable in the year to which the application relates in respect of a principal residence of the applicant or his or her spouse to the extent that such principal residence is beneficially owned by them or either of them or is held in trust for the use and occupation of them or either of them and their dependants as a principal residence, or (b) 20 per cent of, (i) municipal tax paid in the year to which the application relates in respect of a principal residence that is not beneficially owned by the applicant and his or her spouse or either of them or is not held in trust for them or either of them and their dependants, but only to the extent that such municipal tax is included by the owner of such principal residence in computing the owner’s taxable income under the Income Tax Act (Canada) for the taxation year, and (ii) rent paid or agreed to be paid in the year to which the application relates for occupation of a principal residence of the applicant where such rent is paid or agreed to be paid by or on behalf of the applicant or his or her spouse and is calculated to exclude all payments on account of meals or board; (“coût d’habitation”) “prescribed” means prescribed by the regulations; (“prescrit”) “principal residence” means a housing unit in Ontario that was in the year to which the application relates occupied by the applicant as his or her principal residence, and that is designated by the applicant in the prescribed manner as his or her principal residence in the year to which the application relates; (“résidence principale”) “regulations” means the regulations made under this Act; (“règlements”) “separation agreement” means an agreement under which an individual and his or her spouse live separate and apart and maintain separate principal residences. (“accord de séparation”) R.S.O. 1990, c.O.33, s.1.