War Veterans Allowance Act

Marginal note:Census information

• 30 (1) The Minister has the right, for the purpose of ascertaining the age of any applicant, to obtain any information from Statistics Canada on the subject of the age of the applicant that may be contained in the returns of any census taken more than twenty years before the date of the application for the information.

• Marginal note:Information that shall be made available to Minister

  (1.1) The following personal information relating to a veteran shall, if requested by the Minister, be made available to the Minister for the purpose of determining or verifying the veteran’s service in order to determine eligibility for an allowance under this Act or for a benefit under any enactment incorporating this Act by reference:

  • (a) personal information collected or obtained by the Department of National Defence in the administration of the National Defence Act or the Queen’s Regulations and Orders for the Canadian Forces, or any predecessor enactment relating to the same subject-matter;

  • (b) personal information collected or obtained by the Department of Transport in the administration of the Canada Shipping Act, or any predecessor enactment relating to the same subject-matter; and

  • (c) personal information collected or obtained by the National Archives of Canada in the administration of the National Archives of Canada Act, or any predecessor enactment relating to the same subject-matter.

• Marginal note:Information that Minister may disclose

  (2) Personal information that has been collected or obtained by the Minister in the administration of this Act, or any enactment incorporating this Act by reference, may be disclosed by the Minister

  • (a) to any person or body, to the extent that the disclosure is necessary in order for the Minister to obtain from that person or body information that the Minister requires for the administration of this Act or any other enactment administered by the Minister;

  • (b) to any officer or employee of the Department, to the extent that the disclosure is required for the administration of this Act or any other enactment administered by the Minister;

  • (c) to the Department of Human Resources Development, to the extent that the disclosure is required for the administration of the Old Age Security Act or the Canada Pension Plan; and

  • (d) to the Correctional Service of Canada, to the extent that the disclosure is required for the administration of the Corrections and Conditional Release Act.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (3) Where Social Insurance Numbers have been assigned under the authority of any other Act, the Minister or other authority charged with the administration of that Act and the Minister of Veterans Affairs may exchange any information contained in applications for those numbers and any numbers so assigned and may make or cause to be made available any such information or numbers in such manner as may be authorized by that Act.