Special Duty Area Pension Order (SOR/2001-496)

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Special Duty Area Pension Order

SOR/2001-496

PENSION ACT

Registration 2001-11-08

Special Duty Area Pension Order

P.C. 2001-2085  2001-11-08

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of National Defence and the Treasury Board, pursuant to subsection 91.1(1)Footnote a of the Pension Act, hereby makes the annexed Special Duty Area Pension Order.

DESIGNATION

1. For the purpose of the Pension Act, an area set out in column 1 of the schedule is designated as a special duty area in respect of the period commencing on the date set out in column 2 and terminating on the date set out in column 3.

REPEAL

2. The Special Duty Area Pension OrderFootnote 1 is repealed.

COMING INTO FORCE

3. This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.

SCHEDULE

(Section 1)

Column 1Column 2Column 3
ItemAreaCommencement DateTermination Date
1.Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Syria and Jordan .......January 1, 1949
2.Indo-China .......August 8, 1954March 31, 1981
3.Congo .......August 11, 1960June 30, 1964
4.Cyprus .......March 15, 1964
5.India and Kashmir and the area adjacent thereto enclosed by the circumference of a circle with a radius of 100 miles having as its centre the city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan .......January 18, 1949March 31, 1981
6.New Guinea .......September 1, 1962May 31, 1963
7.Yemen .......June 18, 1963September 15, 1964
8.The area 20 miles on each side of the International Border between India and West Pakistan .......September 28, 1965March 22, 1966
9.Korea .......July 5, 1950March 31, 1981
10.Nigeria .......August 1, 1968February 27, 1970
11.Republic of Zimbabwe .......January 9, 1980March 31, 1981
12.Afghanistan and Pakistan .......May 2, 1988November 30, 1994
13.Ethiopia .......May 11, 1988September 8, 1988
14.Iran and Iraq .......August 11, 1988
15.Namibia .......March 12, 1989April 30, 1990
16.Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua .......December 3, 1989
17.The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the Yemen Arab Republic, the Sultanate of Oman, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and their contiguous sea areas between 12° and 32° N latitude and 32° and 75° E longitude .......August 11, 1990
18.The People’s Republic of Angola .......June 24, 1991November 30, 1994
19.The People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, the Kingdom of Morocco, the Islamic Republic of Mauritania and the territory known as Western Sahara .......July 21, 1991November 30, 1994
20.The People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Republic of Djibouti .......July 18, 1991November 30, 1994
21.The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia .......September 9, 1991
22.The Republic of Cambodia, the Kingdom of Thailand, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam .......November 17, 1991
23.The Somali Democratic Republic .......August 22, 1992November 30, 1994
24.The Republic of Mozambique .......February 8, 1993
25.The Rwandese Republic .......April 6, 1994
26.The Republic of Haiti .......October 5, 1994
27.East Timor and the remainder of the area between 8° and 11° S latitude and 123° and 128° E longitude .......October 18, 1999
28.Central African Republic .......March 22, 1998February 15, 2000
29.Democratic Republic of Congo .......August 6, 1999
30.Sierra Leone .......October 13, 1999
31.Ethiopia and Eritrea .......August 31, 2000
32.Afghanistan and the area of the Mediterranean Sea between 15° and 36° E. longitude and between 30° and 41° N. latitude and the area of the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea that is west of 68° degrees E. longitude to Tanzania, and north of 5° S. latitude .......October 1, 2001
  •  SOR/2002-419, s. 1;
  • SOR/2003-177, s. 1.