Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. R-10)

Marginal note:Regulations

• 21. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations

  • (a) respecting the administrative discharge of members;

  • (b) for the organization, training, conduct, performance of duties, discipline, efficiency, administration or good government of the Force; and

  • (c) generally, for carrying the purposes and provisions of this Act into effect.

• Marginal note:Rules

  (2) Subject to this Act and the regulations, the Commissioner may make rules

  • (a) respecting the administrative discharge of members; and

  • (b) for the organization, training, conduct, performance of duties, discipline, efficiency, administration or good government of the Force.

Marginal note:Pay and allowances

• 22. (1) The Treasury Board shall establish the pay and allowances to be paid to members.

• Marginal note:Reduction in pay where demotion

  (1.1) Where, pursuant to this Act, a member is demoted, the rate of pay of that member shall be reduced to the highest rate of pay for the rank or level to which the member is demoted that does not exceed the member’s rate of pay at the time of the demotion.

• Marginal note:During imprisonment

  (2) No pay or allowances shall be paid to any member in respect of any period during which the member is serving a sentence of imprisonment.

• Marginal note:During suspension

  (3) The Treasury Board may make regulations respecting the stoppage of pay and allowances of members who are suspended from duty.

Marginal note:Fees, gifts, etc., payable to Fund

• 23. (1) All

  • (a) fees, costs, remuneration or commissions, other than pay and allowances under section 22, and

  • (b) gifts, awards and bequests, if money or converted into money, other than gifts or rewards under subsection (3),

  earned by or awarded, paid or granted to any member in connection with the performance of the member’s duties in the Force shall be paid to the Benefit Trust Fund maintained by the Force, unless the Minister directs otherwise.

• Marginal note:Pay, forfeitures payable to Fund

  (2) Notwithstanding any other Act, all pay forfeited under this Act and the proceeds of all forfeitures and seizures awarded or adjudged to any member in connection with the performance of the member’s duties in the Force shall be paid to the Benefit Trust Fund maintained by the Force.

• Marginal note:Purpose of Benefit Trust Fund

  (3) The money paid to the Benefit Trust Fund pursuant to this section shall be used

  • (a) for the benefit of members and former members and their dependants;

  • (b) as a reward, grant or compensation to any person who assists the Force in the performance of its duties in any case where the Minister is of the opinion that the person is deserving of recognition for the service rendered;

  • (c) as a reward to any person appointed or employed under the authority of this Act for good conduct or meritorious service; and

  • (d) for such other objects for the benefit of the Force as the Minister may direct.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (4) The Governor in Council may make regulations governing the management and disposition by loan, grant or otherwise of any money paid to the Benefit Trust Fund pursuant to this section.