Children’s Special Allowances Act
Marginal note:Application for special allowance
4 (1) A special allowance is not payable in respect of a child for any month unless
(a) an application therefor has been made in the prescribed manner by the department, agency or institution referred to in section 3 that maintains the child; and
(b) payment of the special allowance has been approved under this Act.
Marginal note:Commencement of special allowance
(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), where payment of a special allowance is approved in respect of a child, payment thereof shall commence with the month following the month in which the application therefor is received, but where a special allowance would have been payable before that month if an application therefor had been received, the special allowance is payable for each month commencing with the latest of
(a) the eleventh month preceding the month in which the application was received,
(b) the month in which a special allowance would first have been payable if an application therefor had been received, and
(c) January 1993.
Marginal note:Idem
(3) No special allowance is payable for the month in which the child in respect of whom the special allowance is payable commences to be maintained by a department, agency or institution, and no special allowance is payable in respect of a child for the month in which the child is born or commences to reside in Canada.
Marginal note:When special allowance ceases
(4) A special allowance ceases to be payable with the payment for the month in which the child in respect of whom the special allowance is payable
(a) ceases to be maintained by the department, agency or institution;
(b) ceases to reside in Canada;
(c) dies; or
(d) reaches eighteen years of age or, in the case of a special allowance supplement paid under section 3.1, reaches six years of age.
- 1992, c. 48, s. 23 (Sch., s. 4)
- 2006, c. 4, s. 171
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