A-13.2.1 - Act respecting assistance and compensation for victims of crime

Section 91 Disposition versions

2999-12-31

91. Subject to section 92, a victim who holds part-time employment or is unemployed although able to work and whose main occupation, on the date of the manifestation of the injury, consists in taking care, for no remuneration, of a child under 16 years of age or of a person who, for any reason whatever, is ordinarily unable to hold employment is entitled to a weekly allowance for care expenses of

(1)  $282 where the victim takes care of one person referred to in the first paragraph;

(2)  $316 where the victim takes care of two persons referred to in the first paragraph;

(3)  $350 where the victim takes care of three persons referred to in the first paragraph;

(4)  $384 where the victim takes care of four or more persons referred to in the first paragraph.

The allowance shall be paid for as long as the victim is unable to care for a person referred to in the first paragraph.

It shall be adjusted, in the cases and on the conditions prescribed by regulation of the Government, at the end of the week during which a change occurs in the number of persons to be cared for.

Payment of the allowance shall cease at the end of the week during which the victim ceases to be unable to care for a person referred to in the first paragraph.

1993, c. 54, s. 91.