Canada Student Loans Regulations

19 (1) To qualify for forgiveness for a year, the borrower must

• (a) either

  • (i) have begun to work as a family physician, nurse or nurse practitioner in an under-served rural or remote community during the year, or

  • (ii) have continued during the year to work as a family physician, nurse or nurse practitioner in a community in respect of which the borrower qualified for loan forgiveness for the previous year; and

• (b) apply to the Minister in the prescribed form no later than 90 days after the end of that year.

(2) The loan forgiveness takes effect on the day following the end of the year.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), the results of a census of population apply six months after the day on which the census is published by Statistics Canada or on the November 1 following that day, whichever is later.