Order Respecting the Interim Federal Health Program, 2012

7 Despite sections 3 to 6, the Minister may, in exceptional and compelling circumstances, including when the Minister exercises a power conferred under subsection 25.2(1) of the Act, on his or her own initiative and for the period that he or she determines, pay the cost incurred in Canada of any of the following:

• (a) health care coverage;

• (b) public health or public safety health care coverage;

• (c) immigration medical examinations; or

• (d) immunization and medication, only if required to prevent or treat a disease posing a risk to public health or to treat a condition of public safety concern.