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(c) [Repealed, SOR/95-440, s. 6]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 Veterans Well-being 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.
- SOR/91-438, s. 4
- SOR/92-406, s. 3
- SOR/95-440, s. 6
- SOR/98-386, s. 4
- SOR/2003-362, s. 13
- SOR/2006-50, s. 75
- SOR/2017-161, s. 10
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