Marginal note:Payment of benefit
75 (1) If a disabled contributor’s child’s benefit is payable to a child of a disabled contributor or an orphan’s benefit is payable to an orphan of a contributor and the child or orphan has not reached 18 years of age, payment of the benefit must be made to the person or agency having decision-making responsibility for the child or orphan, or, if there is no person or agency having decision-making responsibility for the child or orphan, to any person or agency that the Minister may direct.
Marginal note:Presumption — decision-making responsibility
(2) For the purposes of this Part, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, the following person is presumed to have decision-making responsibility for the child or orphan, as the case may be:
(a) the contributor, in relation to a disabled contributor’s child, except if the contributor has less than 20% of the parenting time in respect of the child; and
(b) the survivor, if any, of the contributor, in relation to an orphan, except if the survivor has less than 20% of the parenting time in respect of the orphan.
- R.S., 1985, c. C-8, s. 75
- 2000, c. 12, s. 56
- 2024, c. 17, s. 193
- Date modified: