3. An adopter who wishes to benefit from the financial assistance provided for in this Regulation must apply therefor to the institution of his or her territory operating a child and youth protection centre, within 60 days, as the case may be, of the date of the order of placement or the date on which the director of youth protection ends the intervention with the child.
If an application is not submitted within the time prescribed in the first paragraph, financial assistance may, despite the delay, be granted to the adopter if the adopter gives sufficient grounds to explain the delay. Where applicable, financial assistance may be granted retroactively for not more than 6 months as of the date of receipt of the duly completed application.
The application must be made using the form provided by the institution. It must also contain the adopter’s name, address and date of birth as well as the name and date of birth of the child for whom financial assistance is applied for. In the case of an application submitted by a person referred to in section 1, the application must also contain the date on which the order of placement was made.
1915-2023O.C. 1915-2023, s. 3.