Dental Benefit Act (S.C. 2022, c. 14, s. 2)

Marginal note:Offences

• 27 (1) Every person commits an offence who

  • (a) for the purpose of obtaining a dental benefit for themselves, knowingly uses false identity information or another person’s identity information;

  • (b) with intent to steal all or a substantial part of another person’s dental benefit, counsels that person to apply for the benefit; or

  • (c) knowingly makes, in relation to one or more applications under this Act, three or more representations that are false or misleading, if the total amount of the dental benefits that were or would have been paid as a result of the applications is at least $5,000.

• Marginal note:Punishment

  (2) Every person who is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than the sum of $5,000 plus an amount of not more than double the amount of the dental benefit that was or would have been paid as a result of committing the offence, to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years less a day, or to both.

• Marginal note:Definition of identity information

  (3) In paragraph (1)(a), identity information has the same meaning as in section 402.1 of the Criminal Code.