Veterans Health Care Regulations

13 (1) Where the Minister requests that a person undergo a medical examination in order to establish that person’s entitlement to any benefit, service or care, the person is eligible to receive

• (a) reimbursement of the cost of the examination incurred by the person; and

• (b) reimbursement of the costs of travel incurred by the person in respect of the examination, in accordance with section 7.

• (c) [Repealed, SOR/95-440, s. 6]

(2) Where the Veterans Review and Appeal Board requests that a person undergo a medical examination, the person is eligible to receive

• (a) reimbursement of the cost of the examination incurred by the person;

• (b) reimbursement of the costs of travel incurred by the person in respect of the examination, in accordance with section 7; and

• (c) a treatment allowance payable in accordance with section 10 if the person is a client referred to in section 9 and is hospitalized in order to undergo the examination.

(3) Subsections (1) and (2) do not apply in respect of a medical examination required under the Canadian Forces Members and Veterans Re-establishment and Compensation Act.

(4) The following clients are eligible to receive treatment benefits and supplementary benefits for a period that is equal to the shorter of one year and the total period of service of the client:

• (a) veteran pensioners, special duty service pensioners and military service pensioners, if they take a course of training under the Pensioners Training Regulations; and

• (b) veteran pensioners whose war-related pensioned condition is blindness, if they take a course of rehabilitative training in respect of blindness.