Canada Student Financial Assistance Act

Marginal note:Definitions

• 2 (1) In this Act,

  appropriate authority

  appropriate authority, in respect of a province, means an appropriate authority designated for the province pursuant to subsection 3(1); (autorité compétente)

  designated educational institution

  designated educational institution means an institution of learning designated pursuant to subsection 3(1), and includes a specified educational institution within the meaning of the Canada Student Loans Act; (établissement agréé)

  lender

  lender means a financial institution within the meaning of the Bank Act or other corporation that is a party to an agreement with the Minister entered into under section 5; (prêteur)

  Minister

  Minister means such member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada as may be designated by the Governor in Council as the Minister for the purposes of this Act; (ministre)

  prescribed

  prescribed, in the case of a form or the information to be given on a form, means prescribed by the Minister and, in any other case, means prescribed by the regulations; (Version anglaise seulement)

  qualifying student

  qualifying student means a person

  • (a) who is a Canadian citizen, a person registered as an Indian under the Indian Act, a permanent resident as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act or a protected person within the meaning of subsection 95(2) of that Act,

  • (b) who is qualified for enrolment or is enrolled at a designated educational institution as a full-time student or part-time student for a period of studies at a post-secondary school level, and

  • (c) who intends to attend a designated educational institution as a full-time student or part-time student for a period of studies described in paragraph (b) if it is financially possible for that person to do so. (étudiant admissible)

• Marginal note:Other definitions

  (2) In this Act, the words and expressions borrower, consolidated student loan agreement, course, family income, family physician, financial assistance, full-time student, loan year, nurse, nurse practitioner, part-time student, period of studies, post-secondary school level, program of studies, severe permanent disability, student loan, student loan agreement and under-served rural or remote community have the meanings assigned by the regulations.

• Marginal note:Words and expressions in relation to previous loan years

  (3) Words and expressions used in this Act have, when used in respect of a loan year before the loan year in which this section comes into force, the meanings assigned to them by the Canada Student Loans Act.

• Marginal note:Electronic documents and communication

  (4) A document or other communication under this Act or the regulations may be in electronic form, and a reference in this Act or the regulations to a document includes a document in electronic form.