S-4.1.1 - Educational Childcare Act

Section 7 Disposition versions

2006-06-01

7. The Minister may issue a childcare centre permit to a non-profit legal person or a cooperative whose board of directors is as follows:

(1)  it is made up of at least seven members;

(2)  at least two thirds of its members are parents who are clients or future clients of the childcare centre;

(3)  at least one of its members is from the business sector or the institutional, social, education or community sector;

(4)  no more than two of its members are staff members of the centre; and

(5)  none of its members is related to another.

No board member referred to in subparagraph 2 or 3 may be a staff member of the centre or a person related to a staff member of the centre.

The prohibition concerning related persons does not apply to an Aboriginal board of directors formed for the establishment or operation of a centre on Aboriginal territory.

The Government may make rules concerning the election of the members of the board of directors, its operation and the content of its internal by-laws.

2005, c. 47, s. 7.