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Veterans Well-being Act

Version of section 52 from 2017-04-01 to 2019-03-31:


Marginal note:Amount of award

  •  (1) Subject to section 54, the amount of a disability award payable in respect of a member or a veteran shall be determined by the formula

    A - B

    where

    A
    is the amount set out in column 3 of Schedule 3 that corresponds to the member’s or veteran’s extent of disability, as set out in column 2 of that Schedule, in respect of the aggregate of all of the member’s or veteran’s disability assessments and deemed disability assessments under this Act; and
    B
    is the amount set out in column 3 of Schedule 3 that corresponds to what was, immediately before the disability award becomes payable, the member’s or veteran’s extent of disability, as set out in column 2 of that Schedule, in respect of the aggregate of all of the member’s or veteran’s disability assessments and deemed disability assessments under this Act.
  • Marginal note:Fraction

    (2) For the purpose of determining the extent of disability in subsection (1), if a disability award may be paid only in respect of a fraction of a disability in accordance with subsection 45(2), 46(2) or 48(2) or (3), then only that fraction of the disability shall be taken into account.

  • Marginal note:Reduction of award

    (3) If an amount is paid or payable to a person from a prescribed source in respect of a death or disability for which a disability award is payable, the Minister may reduce the disability award payable to the person by a prescribed amount.

  • 2005, c. 21, s. 52
  • 2016, c. 7, s. 88

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