A-29, r. 3 - Regulation respecting insured visual aids and related services

Section 5 Disposition versions

2012-09-01

5. Subject to the conditions set out in this Regulation and provided they are subject to a tariff, visual aids falling in any of the groups or sub-groups of aids listed respectively by category and by type in Schedule I, as well as their components and supplements, are insured.

A visual aid whose maximum purchase or replacement price indicated in the Tariff is marked “SC” (special consideration) may constitute an insured visual aid in respect of a person with a visual deficiency if it is demonstrated, through a clinical and functional evaluation by a team of rehabilitation specialists from a recognized institution, that, because of a particular disability resulting from a physical or intellectual deficiency, he or she is unable to use any of the insured visual aids appearing in the list in the same division or subdivision, as the case may be, of the Tariff. A physical deficiency includes a motor, hearing or speech deficiency.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, a visual aid is an insured visual aid only if it is similar, with respect to its operation and price, to a visual aid appearing in the list in the Tariff in that same division or subdivision, as the case may be, and if, in reference to that similar visual aid, it meets the requirements of the first paragraph.

O.C. 1403-96, s. 5; O.C. 470-2011, ss. 5 and 25.