In force: 2024-02-01
4. Every application for financial assistance must be accompanied by affidavits from the adopter and a third person certifying that the adopter provides for the child’s upkeep, resides in Canada or, as the case may be, is in a situation described in the first paragraph of section 20. It must also be accompanied by the documents referred to in the first paragraph of section 13.
The third person referred to in the first paragraph may not be the adopter’s spouse, an ascendant, a descendant or a relative in the collateral line to the third degree of the adopter. Nor may the third person be the spouse of that ascendant, descendant or relative.
For the purposes of the second paragraph, “spouse” has the meaning assigned to it by section 61.1 of the Interpretation Act (chapter I-16).
1915-2023O.C. 1915-2023, s. 4.