8. Where a user is temporarily absent because he is on vacation, has a holiday or has run away, the family-type resource shall be entitled, for a maximum period of 15 days, to the basic daily compensation that is prescribed in section 4 and would have been applicable to that family-type resource, and to the daily lump sum provided for in section 5.1.
Upon the expiry of the 15-day period prescribed in the first paragraph, the provisions of section 7 apply, where applicable, for a maximum period of 30 days.
The compensation prescribed in the first paragraph shall be granted only on the condition that the user’s return to the family-type resource is anticipated during the absence by the institution identified by the agency under paragraph 2 of section 304 and under section 314 of the Act.
M.O. 93-04, s. 8; M.O. 2006-006, s. 2.