Canada Student Financial Assistance Act (S.C. 1994, c. 28)

AMENDMENTS NOT IN FORCE

• — 2024, c. 17, s. 158

  • 158 Subsection 2(2) of the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act is replaced by the following:

    • 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.

• — 2024, c. 17, s. 159

  • 159 The heading before section 9.2 of the Act is replaced by the following:

    Loan Forgiveness — Underserved Rural or Remote Communities

• — 2024, c. 17, s. 160

  • 160 Subsection 9.2(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • Portion of loan forgiven

      • 9.2 (1) The Minister may forgive an amount in respect of a student loan to a borrower who meets the prescribed conditions and begins to work in an underserved rural or remote community as a

        • (a) family physician;

        • (b) nurse;

        • (c) nurse practitioner;

        • (d) early childhood educator;

        • (e) dentist;

        • (f) dental hygienist;

        • (g) pharmacist;

        • (h) midwife;

        • (i) teacher;

        • (j) social worker;

        • (k) psychologist;

        • (l) personal support worker; or

        • (m) physiotherapist.