S-3.1.1 - Act respecting income security

Section 2 Disposition versions

1995-01-30

2. The word “spouses” means

(1)  persons who are married to each other and who cohabit;

(2)  persons who live together as husband and wife and who are the mother and father of one and the same child;

(3)  persons of full age who live together as husband and wife and who, at one time, have cohabited for a period of not less than one year.

Such persons remain spouses or, for the purposes of subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph, are presumed to have continued to cohabit despite the temporary absence of one of them.

For the purposes of the parental wage assistance program, two persons who were spouses, at any time in that year, are deemed to be spouses for the year. Where an adult has more than one spouse during a year, the following rules apply:

(1)  the adult is deemed to have only one spouse during the year;

(2)  the person who is the spouse of the adult on the last day of the year or, if he does not have a spouse at that time, the last person who, in the year, was his spouse, is deemed to be the spouse of the adult during the year;

(3)  the adult is deemed not to be the spouse during the year of a person other than the person referred to in subparagraph 2.

1988, c. 51, s. 2; 1995, c. 1, s. 232.

1988-12-22

2. The word “spouses” means

(1)  persons who are married to each other and who cohabit;

(2)  persons who live together as husband and wife and who are the mother and father of one and the same child;

(3)  persons of full age who live together as husband and wife and who, at one time, have cohabited for a period of not less than one year.

Such persons remain spouses or, for the purposes of subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph, are presumed to have continued to cohabit despite the temporary absence of one of them.

For the purposes of the parental wage assistance program, two persons who have been spouses for not less than 184 consecutive days in a year are deemed to be spouses for the year.

1988, c. 51, s. 2.