Royal Canadian Mounted Police Regulations, 2014 (SOR/2014-281)

Marginal note:Grants

• 51 (1) Grants may be made out of the Benefit Trust Fund to

  • (a) a member who is in financial distress due to causes that are beyond the member’s control;

  • (b) a member in recognition of the member’s outstanding contribution in bringing an important investigation to a successful conclusion;

  • (c) a member in recognition of any act of special endurance or bravery or any act demonstrating outstanding professional ethics or integrity in the performance of the member’s duties;

  • (d) a member, to the extent that the Government of Canada or the government of a province is unwilling or unable to reimburse the member for loss or damage to the member’s personal effects or property in the performance of the member’s duties;

  • (e) a member who is discharged from the Force while still in need of medical treatment;

  • (f) a former member or dependants of a deceased former member who are in need of financial assistance;

  • (g) the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Veterans’ Association to maintain a program to seek out and assist former members and their dependants under terms and conditions set out by the advisory committee;

  • (h) the spouse or common-law partner and the dependants, parents, brothers and sisters of a member, public service employee, reservist or auxiliary constable who is killed on duty, for expenses they incurred while travelling to a Force memorial service, approved by the Commissioner in honour of the deceased, in the manner and amount determined by Treasury Board; and

  • (i) the spouse or common-law partner and the dependants, parents, brothers and sisters of a member, public service employee, reservist or auxiliary constable who is killed on duty, for expenses they incurred while travelling to a criminal trial, public inquiry or parole review in relation to that death.

• Marginal note:Grants for certain purposes

  (2) Grants may be made out of the Benefit Trust Fund for the purpose of

  • (a) covering the reasonable costs of a burial for a former member who dies without leaving sufficient funds for their burial and in respect of whom there is no other source from which the burial expenses can be paid;

  • (b) purchasing wreaths in honour of deceased former members;

  • (c) covering costs associated with engraving memorial plaques and creating an honour roll page at the RCMP Academy, “Depot” Division to honour a member, public service employee, reservist or auxiliary constable who is killed on duty;

  • (d) covering the reasonable funeral reception expenses if the death of a member is duty-related;

  • (e) purchasing and installing an honour roll or memorial plaque in the division in which a member was posted at the time that the member was killed on duty;

  • (f) covering the reasonable costs of a memorial service held at the RCMP Academy, “Depot” Division to honour a member, public service employee, reservist or auxiliary constable who is killed on duty;

  • (g) paying travel expenses incurred by persons while travelling on Benefit Trust Fund business, including those incurred by persons who are requested by the advisory committee to appear before the committee, in the manner and amount determined by Treasury Board;

  • (h) covering the costs of improving and maintaining real property or immovables within Canada used as recreational areas by members, former members, spouses or common-law partners and their dependants;

  • (i) covering the costs of providing a member at the time of retirement with the identification badge of the member;

  • (j) supporting members participating in competitions of marksmanship; and

  • (k) further assisting members, former members, spouses or common-law partners and their dependants, in amounts authorized by the Commissioner.

• Marginal note:Loans

  (3) Loans may be made out of the Benefit Trust Fund to members referred to in paragraphs (1)(a), (d), and (e) and for the purpose referred to in paragraph (2)(k).

• Marginal note:Recreational areas

  (4) A grant may be made out of the Benefit Trust Fund for the purpose of acquiring real property or immovables within Canada to be used as recreational areas by members, former members, spouses or common-law partners and their dependants.