Children’s Special Allowances Act (S.C. 1992, c. 48, Sch.)

Marginal note:Monthly special allowance supplement

3.1 If a special allowance is payable under section 3 for a child under the age of six, there shall be added to that special allowance a special allowance supplement in the amount of $100 to be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

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.

Marginal note:Recipient of special allowance

5. Where payment of a special allowance is approved in respect of a child, the special allowance shall, in such manner and at such times as are determined by the Minister, be paid to the department, agency or institution referred to in section 3 that maintains the child or, in the prescribed circumstances, to a foster parent.