20. Financial assistance granted to a tutor who leaves Canada to establish his or her residence in another country is maintained if the tutor(1) is registered as a student in an educational institution in Québec or Canada while pursuing a program of study outside Canada;
(2) is a trainee outside Canada at a university, an institution affiliated with a university, a research institute, a government or international body or an enterprise or agency affiliated with such an institute or body;
(3) is employed by the government of Québec, the government of another province in Canada or the government of Canada and is posted outside Canada;
(4) holds employment outside Canada on behalf of a legal person, a partnership or an organization having its head office or a place of business in Québec or Canada to which the tutor is directly accountable;
(5) works abroad as an employee of a non-profit organization having its head office in Canada, under an international aid or cooperation program; or
(6) is a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the Canadian Forces and is posted outside Canada.
A tutor who is in one of the situations referred to in the first paragraph must, to take advantage of the right to maintain financial assistance, provide the institution with a supporting document.
If, in the case of Indigenous customary tutorship, the application for financial assistance was made jointly by both tutors and both tutors left Canada to establish their residence in another country, only one of the tutors must be in one of the situations described in the first paragraph to maintain financial assistance.
1914-2023O.C. 1914-2023, s. 20.