Canada Disability Benefit Regulations (SOR/2025-35)

Marginal note:Presumption of death

• 14 (1) If a beneficiary has disappeared under circumstances that the Minister concludes raise, beyond a reasonable doubt, a presumption that the beneficiary is dead, the Minister may determine the date on which, for the purposes of the Act and these Regulations, that beneficiary’s death is presumed to have occurred, and the beneficiary will be deemed for all purposes of the Act and these Regulations to have died on that date.

• Marginal note:Change of date

  (2) If, after having determined the date of the beneficiary’s death, the Minister is satisfied on the basis of new information or evidence that the date of death is different, the Minister may determine a different date for the purposes of the Act and these Regulations and the Minister must, within a reasonable time, pay any benefit that would have been payable if the initial determination had not been made.

• Marginal note:Beneficiary is alive

  (3) If, after having determined the date of the beneficiary’s death under this section, the Minister is satisfied on the basis of new information or evidence that the beneficiary is alive, the Minister must, within a reasonable time, pay any benefit that would have been payable to the beneficiary had that determination not been made.

• Marginal note:Death certificates

  (4) For the purposes of this section, the Minister is not bound by the issuance or revocation of a death certificate by any other authority.