Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act

Marginal note:Special duty areas

• 32.12 (1) The Solicitor General of Canada, after consulting the Minister as defined in subsection 3(1) of the Pension Act, may by order designate an area as a special duty area if

  • (a) the area is outside Canada;

  • (b) members of the Force have been deployed, or will be deployed, to that area as part of an operation of a type referred to in section 32.14; and

  • (c) the Solicitor General of Canada is of the opinion that that deployment has exposed or may expose those members to conditions of elevated risk.

• Marginal note:Period of designation

  (2) A designation made by an order under subsection (1) takes effect on the day on which the order is made, or on such earlier date — not earlier than June 11, 1998 — or later date as may be fixed by the order. The order may fix a date on which a designation ceases to be in effect.