This enactment establishes a medal to be awarded to members and former members of the Canadian Forces, members and former members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, firefighters and former firefighters and first responders and former first responders who have served in certain domestic emergency relief operations.
First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1-2 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023-2024 |
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
An Act respecting the establishment and award of a Special Service Medal for Domestic Emergency Relief Operations
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FIRST READING, March 22, 2024
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Mr. Doherty |
This enactment establishes a medal to be awarded to members and former members of the Canadian Forces, members and former members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, firefighters and former firefighters and first responders and former first responders who have served in certain domestic emergency relief operations.
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1st Session, 44th Parliament, 70-71 Elizabeth II – 1-2 Charles III, 2021-2022-2023-2024 |
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
BILL C-386 |
An Act respecting the establishment and award of a Special Service Medal for Domestic Emergency Relief Operations |
His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
1 This Act may be cited as the Special Service Medal for Domestic Emergency Relief Operations Act.
2 A medal to be called the Special Service Medal for Domestic Emergency Relief Operations is established.
3 The Governor in Council may determine the design of the Medal and its associated ribbon.
4 (1) On the recommendation of a minister referred to in section 7, the Governor in Council may, for service performed for a period of at least seven days in support of domestic emergency relief operations designated by the Governor in Council, award the Medal to
(a) members and former members of the Canadian Forces;
(b) members and former members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police;
(c) firefighters and former firefighters; and
(d) first responders and former first responders.
(2) The Medal is not to be awarded more than once to the same person, but additional bars may be awarded for multiple operations and may be worn with the medal.
(3) The Medal is not to be awarded to a person within a class of persons excluded by the regulations.
5 (1) The Medal may be awarded posthumously.
(2) If the Medal is awarded posthumously, it is presented to the person who, in the opinion of the minister who nominated the person, is best suited to receive it.
6 The Medal is to be worn in accordance with the order of precedence set out in the Canadian Orders, Decorations and Medals Directive, 1998.
7 (1) The Minister of National Defence may nominate for award of the Medal those persons who are qualified under the regulations to be nominated for the Medal and who are members or former members of the Canadian Forces.
(2) The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness may nominate for award of the Medal those persons who are qualified under the regulations to be nominated for the Medal and who are members or former members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
(3) Any other minister of the Crown may nominate for award of the Medal those persons who are qualified under the regulations to be nominated for the Medal, who are members or former members of the Canadian Forces or of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and who are serving under the administration of that minister or in a program under the administration of that minister.
(4) Any provincial minister may recommend to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness the nomination for award of the Medal of those persons who are qualified under the regulations to be nominated for the Medal and who are firefighters or former firefighters or first responders or former first responders.
8 The Governor in Council may make regulations
(a) prescribing classes of persons who are excluded from entitlement to the Medal; and
(b) respecting the qualifications of persons or classes of persons who may be nominated for the Medal.
9 Nothing in this Act limits the right of the Governor General to exercise all powers and authorities of His Majesty in respect of the Medal.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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