Canada Pension Plan Regulations

66 (1) For the purpose of paragraph (b) of the definition dependent child in subsection 42(1) of the Act, full-time attendance at a school or university means full-time attendance at a school, college, university or other educational institution that provides training or instruction of an educational, professional, vocational or technical nature and a dependent child shall be deemed to be or to have been in full-time attendance at a school or university during an absence by reason of a normal period of scholastic vacation.

(2) Where a dependent child

• (a) after having been in full-time attendance at a school or university at the beginning of an academic year, is absent from the institution, or

• (b) is absent owing to his failure to resume full-time attendance at a school or university during an academic year

by reason of an illness, that child shall be considered to be or to have been in full-time attendance throughout that absence including the normal period of scholastic vacation if

• (c) immediately after such absence the child resumes full-time attendance at a school or university at any time during that academic year; or

• (d) where it is determined by the Minister that the child is unable to comply with paragraph (c), he resumes full-time attendance at a school or university in the next ensuing academic year.

(3) Where a dependent child is absent after he has begun an academic year by reason of illness and it is determined by the Minister, on evidence satisfactory to him, that by reason of such illness it is not possible for the child to resume full-time attendance at a school or university during that academic year, the child shall be deemed to have been in full-time attendance at a school or university until the end of a normal period of scholastic vacation following that academic year.

(4) Where a dependent child, after he has been in full-time attendance at a school or university at the beginning of an academic year, is absent from the institution by reason of illness and, during such absence or during a normal period of scholastic vacation, the child ceases to be a dependent child or a disabled contributor’s child or dies, that child shall be considered to be in full-time attendance at a school or university until the end of the month in which he ceases to be a dependent child or a disabled contributor’s child or dies.