War Service Grants Act (R.S.C. 1970, c. W-4)

Marginal note:Members of the forces receiving treatment

28 Where any member of the forces is, subsequent to his discharge, receiving treatment by or through the Department of Veterans Affairs, the gratuity or credit or any part thereof remaining unpaid or not granted shall be made available to such person as the Minister may designate, to be applied in the discretion of that person for the benefit of such member or his dependants.

Marginal note:Gratuities and credits to be additional to certain other benefits

29 Subject to section 16, the benefits granted herein are in addition to such benefits or grants as are or may hereafter be provided by the Government of Canada for members of the forces, including rehabilitation grant and clothing allowance on discharge.

Marginal note:Immunity of gratuity or credit

• 30 (1) No gratuity payable or credit available to a member of the forces or his dependants is subject to attachment, levy, seizure or assignment under any legal process or to taxation.

• Marginal note:Nullity of purported assignment etc.

  (2) No such gratuity or credit or any part of either may be assigned, charged, anticipated, commuted, given as security or otherwise dealt with, and any purported assignment, charge, anticipation, commutation, or other transaction relating to the gratuity or credit made, entered into, or completed contrary to the provisions of this section, is wholly void and of no effect.

31 to 34 [Repealed, 2000, c. 34, s. 68]

Marginal note:Payment out of C.R.F.

35 Any moneys necessary for the payment of gratuities or for credits under this Act or for the payment pursuant to section 17 of the compensating adjustment repaid by a member may be paid out of unappropriated moneys in the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

Marginal note:Appropriation by Parliament

36 The expenses necessary for the administration of this Act are payable out of moneys appropriated by Parliament for the purpose.

Marginal note:Regulations

37 The Governor in Council may make regulations governing all matters relative to the manner of payment of gratuities or the making of re-establishment credits available and the evidence to be required in support of applications therefor, to prescribe penalties for breaches of the said regulations and generally to give effect to and carry out the objects of this Act.

Marginal note:Re-establishment credits to Newfoundland veterans

• 38 (1) Subject to this Act, every Newfoundland veteran who does not elect to take benefits under the Veterans’ Land Act, except section 17 thereof, or any educational, vocational or technical training benefits under the Veterans Rehabilitation Act is, in order to assist in his re-establishment, eligible for a re-establishment credit equal to the re-establishment credit that might have been made available to him under this Act if he had been a member of the forces as therein defined, less the amount of any pecuniary benefits of the same nature granted or paid by the government of any country other than that of Canada.

• Marginal note:Newfoundland veteran

  (2) In this section the expression Newfoundland veteran means a person who served on active service

  • (a) in any of the naval or army forces of Newfoundland or having been recruited in Newfoundland in any of the naval, army or air forces raised in Newfoundland by or on behalf of the United Kingdom;

  • (b) in any other naval, army or air forces of His Majesty and at the time of his enlistment therein was domiciled in Newfoundland; or

  • (c) in any of the naval, army or air forces of the nations allied with His Majesty in active operations against the enemy in World War II, if he was domiciled in Newfoundland at the time of his enlistment therein and was domiciled and resident in Newfoundland within two years from the date of his discharge therefrom or the 8th day of May 1945, whichever is the later.