Veterans Burial Regulations (SOR/2005-200)

12 If a gravemarker or financial assistance towards funeral, burial and cremation costs have been provided under these Regulations or under predecessor enactments dealing with the same subject-matter, all necessary maintenance of the gravemarker must be provided by the Minister, including the replacement or refurbishment of

• (a) the gravemarker in any cemetery or block of graves owned by the Government of Canada and allocated to former members of the armed forces or the merchant navy or any persons who engaged in pursuits relating to war on behalf of Canada; or

• (b) a gravemarker, of the standard referred to in subsection 6(1), in the cemetery where the original gravemarker or burial was provided.