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Veterans Burial Regulations (SOR/2005-200)

Regulations are current to 2024-10-30 and last amended on 2019-04-01. Previous Versions

PART 2Administration (continued)

Other Activities of the Corporation

 Nothing in these Regulations precludes the Corporation from providing financial assistance and a gravemarker similar to the financial assistance and gravemarker referred to under Part 1 for any deceased person who is ineligible under these Regulations

  • (a) on the Corporation’s own initiative and at its own expense; or

  • (b) on the request and at the expense of any department of the Government of Canada, the government of any province, any municipality, any foreign government or agency, or any other person, corporation or agency.

Gravemarker Maintenance

 If a gravemarker or financial assistance towards funeral, burial and cremation costs have been provided under these Regulations or under predecessor enactments dealing with the same subject-matter, all necessary maintenance of the gravemarker must be provided by the Minister, including the replacement or refurbishment of

  • (a) the gravemarker in any cemetery or block of graves owned by the Government of Canada and allocated to former members of the armed forces or the merchant navy or any persons who engaged in pursuits relating to war on behalf of Canada; or

  • (b) a gravemarker, of the standard referred to in subsection 6(1), in the cemetery where the original gravemarker or burial was provided.

Repeals

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Coming into Force

 These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.

 

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