Canada Student Financial Assistance Act

Marginal note:Definitions

• 2 (1) In this Act,

  appropriate authority

  appropriate authority, in respect of a province, means an appropriate authority designated for the province pursuant to subsection 3(1); (autorité compétente)

  designated educational institution

  designated educational institution means an institution of learning designated pursuant to subsection 3(1), and includes a specified educational institution within the meaning of the Canada Student Loans Act; (établissement agréé)

  lender

  lender means a financial institution within the meaning of the Bank Act or other corporation that is a party to an agreement with the Minister entered into under section 5; (prêteur)

  Minister

  Minister means such member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada as may be designated by the Governor in Council as the Minister for the purposes of this Act; (ministre)

  prescribed

  prescribed, in the case of a form or the information to be given on a form, means prescribed by the Minister and, in any other case, means prescribed by the regulations; (Version anglaise seulement)

  qualifying student

  qualifying student means a person

  • (a) who is a Canadian citizen, a person registered as an Indian under the Indian Act, a permanent resident as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or a protected person within the meaning of subsection 95(2) of that Act,

  • (b) who is qualified for enrolment or is enrolled at a designated educational institution as a full-time student or part-time student for a period of studies at a post-secondary school level, and

  • (c) who intends to attend a designated educational institution as a full-time student or part-time student for a period of studies described in paragraph (b) if it is financially possible for that person to do so. (étudiant admissible)

• Marginal note:Other definitions

  (2) In this Act, the words and expressions “borrower”, “consolidated student loan agreement”, “course”, “dental hygienist”, “dentist”, “early childhood educator”, “family income”, “family physician”, “financial assistance”, “full-time student”, “loan year”, “midwife”, “nurse”, “nurse practitioner”, “part-time student”, “period of studies”, “personal support worker”, “pharmacist”, “physiotherapist”, “post-secondary school level”, “program of studies”, “psychologist”, “severe permanent disability”, “social worker”, “student loan”, “student loan agreement”, “teacher” and “underserved rural or remote community” have the meanings assigned by the regulations.

• Marginal note:Words and expressions in relation to previous loan years

  (3) Words and expressions used in this Act have, when used in respect of a loan year before the loan year in which this section comes into force, the meanings assigned to them by the Canada Student Loans Act.

• Marginal note:Electronic documents and communication

  (4) A document or other communication under this Act or the regulations may be in electronic form, and a reference in this Act or the regulations to a document includes a document in electronic form.