A-13.1.1 - Individual and Family Assistance Act

Section 22 Disposition versions

2018-04-01

22. The word “spouses” means

(1)  persons who are married or in a civil union with each other and who cohabit;

(2)  persons of opposite sex or the same sex who cohabit and who are the parents of a child, unless they establish that their cohabitation is temporary and results from exceptional circumstances related to a serious health problem of one of them or of one of their children;

(3)  persons of full age of the opposite or the same sex who live together in a de facto union and who, at any one time, 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.

The minimum one-year period of cohabitation specified in subparagraph 3 of the first paragraph may be extended by regulation, in the cases and under the conditions prescribed by regulation.

2005, c. 15, s. 22; 2016, c. 25, s. 24.

2007-01-01

22. The word “spouses” means

(1)  persons who are married or in a civil union with each other and who cohabit;

(2)  persons of opposite sex or the same sex who cohabit and who are the parents of a child, unless they establish that their cohabitation is temporary and results from exceptional circumstances related to a serious health problem of one of them or of one of their children;

(3)  persons of full age of the opposite or the same sex who live together in a de facto union and who, at any one time, 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.

2005, c. 15, s. 22.