A-13.2.1 - Act respecting assistance and compensation for victims of crime

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179. The Government may, by regulation, for the purposes of Title II,
(1)  determine, on a weekly or annual basis, the gross income by class of employment and based on work experience for the purposes of Division II of Chapter II of this Title;
(2)  determine the cases ans conditions under which employment is considered to be full-time, part-time or temporary;
(3)  establish the manner in which the gross income is reduced to take account of the fact that a victim holds employment on a part-time basis for the purposes of sections 29 and 39;
(4)  establish, for the purposes of sections 54 and 57, the standards and procedure for determining employment for a victim;
(5)  define, for the purposes of the second paragraph of section 57, the expressions “employment which exists” and “region in which the victim resides”;
(6)  determine, for the purposes of section 62, the method for computing the net income;
(7)  establish a schedule of permanent impairments and attribute a percentage to each impairment for the purposes of the first and second paragraphs of section 73;
(8)  provide, for the purposes of the first paragraph of section 74, a method of computation to allow the reduction of the percentages determined for permanent impairments where a victim sustains more than one impairment;
(9)  establish, for the purposes of the second paragraph of section 74, an additional percentage, or prescribe a method enabling such a percentage to be determined, where the permanent impairment affects symmetrical organs or parts of the body, or an organ or part of the body symmetrical to one already impaired, on the basis of the anatomical or functional nature of the impairments;
(10)  determine the procedures and conditions for the reimbursement of the expenses referred to in the first paragraph of section 90 and establish the maximum amount for each such expense;
(11)  determine, for the purposes of the third paragraph of section 90, the cases in which the reimbursement of expenses may be replaced by an equivalent weekly allowance;
(12)  determine the cases and conditions where the expenses referred to in sections 91 and 94 may be adjusted according to variations in the number of persons referred to therein;
(13)  determine the cases and conditions giving entitlement to reimbursement of the expenses referred to in the first paragraph of section 96, establish the maximum amount which may be reimbursed for each such expense and prescribe, for the purposes of the second paragraph, the other expenses giving entitlement to reimbursement;
(14)  determine the cases and conditions giving entitlement to the availability allowance and to the reimbursement of the expenses referred to in section 100 and establish the maximum amount which may be reimbursed for each such allowance or expense;
(15)  determine, for the purposes of section 111, the procedure for filing a claim;
(16)  determine the rules to be followed by a health professional in performing the examination that the Minister may require under section 116;
(17)  determine the cases and conditions giving entitlement to the availability allowance or to the reimbursement of expenses referred to in section 117 and determine the maximum amount which may be reimbursed for each such allowance or expense;
(18)  determine, for the purposes of section 149, the cases and conditions according to which the income replacement indemnity may be adjusted in relation to the presence of a spouse and the number of dependants referred to therein;
(19)  determine the conditions and procedure for payment of the income replacement indemnity to the spouse or dependants referred to in section 149;
(20)  determine, for the purposes of section 150, the maximum amount that may be reimbursed in respect of the cost of the medical expert’s report;
(21)  determine, for the purposes of the third paragraph of section 153, the manner in which the amount of a debt may be deducted from any sum the Minister owes to the debtor.
1993, c. 54, s. 179.