Order Respecting Ex-Gratia Payments to Chinese Head Tax Payers (SI/2006-109)

2 The Minister is hereby authorized, on application under subsection 3(1), to make an ex-gratia payment of $20,000 to any person

• (a) who paid the head tax or on whose behalf the head tax was paid under An Act to Restrict and Regulate Chinese Immigration into Canada, S.C. 1885, c. 71, and any subsequent amendment to that Act or under An Act Respecting the Immigration of Chinese Persons, S.N. 1906 (6 Ed. VII), c. 2 of Newfoundland, and any subsequent amendment to that Act;

• (b) who is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada or, in the opinion of the Minister, has a long-standing connection to Canada; and

• (c) who was alive on February 6, 2006.