Definitions

1   In this regulation:

"Act" means the Special Accounts Appropriation and Control Act;

"adoption director" means a director under the Adoption Act;

"director" means a director under the Child, Family and Community Service Act.

Prescribed class of persons

2   For the purposes of section 9.4 (6) (a) (i) of the Act, a person who meets the following requirements is in a prescribed class of persons:

(a) the person is born on or after January 1, 2006;

(b) the person is 17 years of age or older but under 36 years of age;

(c) one or more of the following applies to the person while the person is or was a child or youth, as applicable, over a period of at least 12 months:

(i) the person was subject to a custody order under Part 3 of the Child, Family and Community Service Act that placed the person in the custody of a director;

(ii) a director was the personal guardian of the person under section 51 of the Infants Act;

(iii) an adoption director was the guardian of the person under section 24 or 75 of the Adoption Act;

(iv) the person was subject to an order made under Part 3 of the Child, Family and Community Service Act that placed the person in the custody of someone other than the person's parent, under the director's supervision;

(v) the person was a party to an agreement made under section 12.2 of the Child, Family and Community Service Act.

[am. B.C. Reg. 79/2016, Sch. 2, s. 1.]

Determination of amount to be paid to designated person

3   (1) For the purposes of section 9.4 (6) (a) of the Act, between January 1, 2016 and March 30, 2016 the amount to be paid to a designated person is to be determined once by multiplying

(a) $1 200, and

(b) the total of

(i) the number of children who reached the age of 6, 7, 8 or 9 years in 2015 and who were subject, in that year, to a custody order under Part 3 of the Child, Family and Community Service Act that placed the child in the custody of a director,

(ii) the number of children who reached the age of 6, 7, 8 or 9 years in 2015 and for whom, in that year, a director was the personal guardian under section 51 of the Infants Act, and

(iii) the number of children who reached the age of 6, 7, 8 or 9 years in 2015 and for whom, in that year, an adoption director was the guardian under section 24 or 75 of the Adoption Act.

(2) For the purposes of section 9.4 (6) (a) of the Act, after January 1, 2017 the amount to be paid to a designated person is to be determined on an annual basis by multiplying

(a) $1 200, and

(b) the total of

(i) the number of children who reached the age of 6 years in the immediately preceding calendar year and who, in that year, were subject to a custody order under Part 3 of the Child, Family and Community Service Act that placed the child in the custody of a director,

(ii) the number of children who reached the age of 6 years in the immediately preceding calendar year and for whom, in that year, a director was the personal guardian under section 51 of the Infants Act, and

(iii) the number of children who reached the age of 6 years in the immediately preceding calendar year and for whom, in that year, an adoption director was the guardian under section 24 or 75 of the Adoption Act.

[am. B. C. Reg. 79/2016, Sch. 2, s. 2.]