This regulation sets annual fees for school authorities and district school boards, gives payment deadlines, and requires employers’ associations to send audited financial statements and non-payment notices.
Definition 1. In this Regulation, “legislative grant regulation” means a regulation made under subsection 234 (1) of the Education Act. School authorities 2. (1) Every school authority shall pay, on or before December 30 each year, a fee of $1,000 to the CODE. O. Reg. 232/25, s. 1; O. Reg. 157/26, s. 2. (2) Revoked: O. Reg. 232/25, s. 1. (3) Despite subsection (1), the Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre School Authority is not required to pay fees. O. Reg. 664/21, s. 2 (3). Centre Jules-Léger Consortium 2.1 The Centre Jules-Léger Consortium shall pay, on or before December 30 each year, (a) a fee of $500 to l’Association des conseils scolaires des écoles publiques de l’Ontario (ACÉPO); and (b) a fee of $500 to Association franco-ontarienne des conseils scolaires catholiques (AFOCSC). O. Reg. 232/25, s. 2. District school boards 3. (1) For each school board fiscal year, every district school board shall pay the amount set out in the legislative grant regulation for the year for the employer bargaining agency fee to the applicable employers’ association, as follows: 1. An English-language public district school board shall pay the fee to the Ontario Public School Boards’ Association. Note: On September 1, 2026, paragraph 1 of subsection 3 (1) of the Regulation is revoked and the following substituted: (See: O. Reg. 157/26, s. 3) 1. An English-language district school board shall pay the fee to the CODE. 2. An English-language separate district school board shall pay the fee to the Ontario Catholic School Trustees’ Association. Note: On September 1, 2026, paragraph 2 of subsection 3 (1) of the Regulation is revoked. (See: O. Reg. 157/26, s. 3) 3. A French-language public district school board shall pay the fee to l’Association des conseils scolaires des écoles publiques de l’Ontario. 4. A French-language separate district school board shall pay the fee to l’Association franco-ontarienne des conseils scolaires catholiques. O. Reg. 664/21, s. 3 (1); O. Reg. 157/26, s. 1. (2) A district school board shall pay the fee no later than 45 days after it receives the employers’ association’s financial statements for the previous school board fiscal year under section 5. O. Reg. 664/21, s. 3 (2); O. Reg. 157/26, s. 1. (3) Revoked: O. Reg. 232/25, s. 3. Consequences of non-payment 4. (1) If a school board does not pay a required fee by the day specified in section 2, 2.1 or 3, as the case may be, the affected employers’ association shall notify every school board it represents of this fact. O. Reg. 232/25, s. 4; O. Reg. 157/26, s. 1. (2) If a school board does not pay a required fee within 30 days after the day specified in section 2, 2.1 or 3, as the case may be, the affected employers’ association shall notify every board it represents, and the Crown, of this fact, and the school board forfeits its entitlement to participate in a vote described in subsection 21 (4) of the Act starting on the day the notice is given. O. Reg. 232/25, s. 4; O. Reg. 157/26, s. 1. (3) If a school board pays all fees in respect of which its entitlement to vote was forfeited under this Regulation, and under predecessors and successors of this section in regulations made under subsection 21 (10) of the Act, the employers’ association shall notify every board it represents, and the Crown, of this fact, within 14 days after receiving the payment, and the entitlement to vote is reinstated on the earlier of, (a) the day the employers’ association gives the notice; and (b) 14 days after the employers’ association receives payment of the fees in full. O. Reg. 232/25, s. 4; O. Reg. 157/26, s. 1. Financial statements 5. (1) Every employers’ association shall provide the applicable district school board and the Ministry with an audited financial statement in respect of each school board fiscal year. O. Reg. 664/21, s. 5 (1); O. Reg. 157/26, s. 1. (2) The audited financial statement for a school board fiscal year must be provided no later than November 15 in the subsequent school board fiscal year. O. Reg. 664/21, s. 5 (2). (3) Revoked: O. Reg. 232/25, s. 5. 6. Omitted (provides for coming into force of provisions of this Regulation).