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O. Reg. 224/08: Service Provider Organizations - ServiceOntario


Published: 2008-06-19

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ontario regulation 224/08

made under the

ministry of Government services act

Made: June 17, 2008
Filed: June 19, 2008
Published on e-Laws: June 23, 2008
Printed in The Ontario Gazette: July 5, 2008


Amending O. Reg. 475/07

(Service Provider Organizations — ServiceOntario)

1. Sections 1.1 and 1.2 of Ontario Regulation 475/07 are revoked and the following substituted:

Designated Services — Government of Ontario

Administrative services

1.1 The following administrative services are designated as services which ServiceOntario may provide to the public on behalf of the Government of Ontario:

1. Providing information and responding to queries in relation to programs or services provided by the Government.

2. Accepting correspondence, accepting applications for programs or services provided by the Government, accepting documents and other information required in support of those applications and forwarding that correspondence and those applications, documents and other information to the appropriate ministry or agency of the Government.

Designated Services — Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Health cards and organ donor registration

1.2 The following actions are designated as services that ServiceOntario may provide to the public on behalf of the Minister of Health and Long-Term Care, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and, where applicable, the General Manager for the Ontario Health Insurance Plan:

1. Health cards: accepting and processing applications for the issuance, replacement or renewal of a health card, changing information on a health card and accepting the return or surrender of a health card in accordance with the Health Insurance Act and the regulations made under it.

2. Organ donor registration: registering the organ donation preferences for clients with a health card in accordance with the Trillium Gift of Life Network Act

and the regulations made under it.

Administrative services

1.3 The following administrative services otherwise provided by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care are designated as services which ServiceOntario may provide to the public on behalf of that Ministry and, where applicable, the General Manager for the Ontario Health Insurance Plan:

1. Providing information and responding to queries in relation to actions listed in section 1.2 and services listed in this section.

2. Accepting applications for programs related to the provision of insured services under the Health Insurance Act and the regulations made under it.

3. Updating databases that the Ministry maintains of personal information of health card holders.

2. The Regulation is amended by adding the following section:

Designated Services — Ministry of Revenue

Administrative services

8.1 The following administrative services otherwise provided by the Ministry of Revenue are designated as services which ServiceOntario may provide to the public on behalf of the Ministry:

1. Accepting returns, payments, applications for registration and notices of objection in relation to Acts administered by the Minister of Revenue.

2. Updating information, including personal information, of individuals, vendors and other registrants, where the information is maintained by the Ministry in respect of taxation or benefit programs administered by the Ministry.

3. Sections 14 and 15 of the Regulation are revoked and the following substituted:

Designated Services — City of Toronto

Tax collection

14. The following service is designated as a service which ServiceOntario may provide to the public on behalf of the City of Toronto: collecting a tax in relation to motor vehicles if,

(a) the tax is authorized in a by-law made under the City of Toronto Act, 2006; and

(b) ServiceOntario is authorized by the City to collect the tax.

4. This Regulation comes into force on the day it is filed.