National Defence Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. N-5)

Marginal note:Compensation to certain public service employees

• 271. (1) Compensation may, to such extent, in such manner and to such persons as the Governor in Council may by regulation prescribe, be paid in respect of disability or death resulting from injury or disease or aggravation thereof incurred by any person while

  • (a) employed in the federal public administration,

  • (b) employed under the direction of any part of the federal public administration, or

  • (c) engaged, with or without remuneration, in an advisory, supervisory or consultative capacity in or on behalf of the federal public administration,

  and performing any function in relation to the Canadian Forces or any forces cooperating with the Canadian Forces, if the injury or disease or aggravation thereof arose out of or was directly connected with the performance of that function.

• Marginal note:Restriction

  (2) No compensation shall be paid under subsection (1) in respect of any disability or death for which a pension is paid or payable by virtue of any of the provisions of the Pension Act.

Marginal note:Arrest of dependants

272. The dependants, as defined by regulation, of members of the Canadian Forces on service or active service in any place out of Canada who are alleged to have committed an offence under the laws applicable in that place may be arrested by officers and non-commissioned members appointed as described in section 156 and may be handed over to the appropriate authorities of that place.

Marginal note:Offences committed outside Canada

273. Where a person subject to the Code of Service Discipline does any act or omits to do anything while outside Canada which, if done or omitted in Canada by that person, would be an offence punishable by a civil court, that offence is within the competence of, and may be tried and punished by, a civil court having jurisdiction in respect of such an offence in the place in Canada where that person is found in the same manner as if the offence had been committed in that place, or by any other court to which jurisdiction has been lawfully transferred.

Marginal note:Regulations

273.1 The Governor in Council may make regulations

• (a) authorizing the inspection, in accordance with the custom or practice of the service, of any person or thing in, on or about

  • (i) any defence establishment, work for defence or materiel, or

  • (ii) any quarters under the control of the Canadian Forces or the Department; and

• (b) respecting the access to, exclusion from and safety and conduct of persons in, on or about any defence establishment, work for defence or materiel, including, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, regulations

  • (i) respecting the inspection of persons and property entering, exiting or on any such place or materiel, and

  • (ii) requiring any person, as a condition of being given access to that place or materiel, to submit, on demand, to a search of the person and the person’s personal or movable property while entering or exiting that place or materiel or any restricted area within that place or materiel.