COVID-19 Response Measures Act (S.C. 2020, c. 12)

Coming into Force

Marginal note:September 30, 2020

• 9 (1) Section 6 comes into force on September 30, 2020.

• Marginal note:October 1, 2020

  (2) Section 3 comes into force on October 1, 2020.

• Marginal note:September 25, 2021

  (3) Subsection 4(2) comes into force on September 25, 2021.

PART 3Public Health Events of National Concern Payments

2020, c. 5, s. 9Public Health Events of National Concern Payments Act

10 Section 2 of the Public Health Events of National Concern Payments Act is replaced by the following:

11 The Act is amended by adding, after section 3, the schedule set out in the schedule to this Act.

2020, c. 5COVID-19 Emergency Response Act

12 Section 11 of the COVID-19 Emergency Response Act is replaced by the following:

Coordinating Amendments

Marginal note:2020, c. 5

• 13 (1) If this Act receives royal assent on September 30, 2020, then section 12 of this Act is deemed to have come into force before section 10 of the COVID-19 Emergency Response Act.

• (2) If this Act receives royal assent after September 30, 2020, then

  • (a) the headings before section 10 of this Act and sections 10 to 12 of this Act are replaced by the following:

    PART 3Public Health Events of National Concern Payments Act

    Enactment of Act

    Marginal note:Enactment

    10 The Public Health Events of National Concern Payments Act, whose text is as follows and whose schedule is set out in the schedule to this Act, is enacted:

    An Act to authorize the making of payments in relation to public health events of national concern

    Short Title

    Marginal note:Short title

    1 This Act may be cited as the Public Health Events of National Concern Payments Act.

    Public Health Event of National Concern

    Marginal note:Payments — public health event of national concern (COVID-19)

    2 Subject to section 3, there may be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, on the requisition of a federal minister and with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Health obtained no later than September 30, 2020, all money required to do anything in relation to the measures specified in the schedule in respect of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has been determined by the Minister of Health to be a public health event of national concern.

    Marginal note:Limit

    3 The total of all payments made under section 2 after September 30, 2020, in respect of a measure specified in the schedule, must not exceed the amount specified in the schedule for that measure.

    Repeal

    Marginal note:Repeal

    11 The Public Health Events of National Concern Payments Act, enacted by section 10, is repealed.

  • (b) section 14 of this Act is deemed never to have come into force and is repealed;

  • (c) this Act is amended by adding the following after the heading “Coming into Force” after this section:

    Marginal note:October 1, 2020

    • 13.1 (1) Section 10 comes into force or is deemed to have come into force on October 1, 2020.

    • Marginal note:December 31, 2020

      (2) Section 11 comes into force on December 31, 2020.

  • (d) the schedule to this Act is amended by replacing the reference after the heading “SCHEDULE” with the following:

    (Section 10)

Coming into Force

Marginal note:October 1, 2020

14 Sections 10 and 11 come into force on October 1, 2020.