Public Service Employment Regulations

Marginal note:RCMP — discharge for medical reasons

• 7.1 (1) The following persons who are discharged from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for medical reasons are entitled to appointment in priority to all persons, other than those referred to in sections 39.1 and 40 and subsections 41(1) and (4) of the Act, to any position in the public service for which the Commission is satisfied that the person meets the essential qualifications referred to in paragraph 30(2)(a) of the Act:

  • (a) a member, within the meaning of subsection 2(1) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; and

  • (b) a member of the Reserve of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, if the medical reasons are attributable to service.

• Marginal note:Conditions

  (2) The priority applies if

  • (a) the person requests the priority within five years after the day on which the person is discharged;

  • (b) within five years after the day on which the person is discharged, the person is certified by a competent authority to be ready to return to work on the day specified by the authority; and

  • (c) the day specified is within five years after the day on which the person is discharged.

• Marginal note:Entitlement period

  (3) The entitlement period begins on the day on which the person is ready to return to work, as certified by a competent authority, and ends on the earliest of

  • (a) the fifth anniversary of the day on which the entitlement period begins;

  • (b) the day on which the person is appointed to a position in the public service for an indeterminate period;

  • (c) the day on which the person declines an appointment to a position in the public service for an indeterminate period without good and sufficient reason; and

  • (d) if the person is employed in the public service for a specified term,

    • (i) the day on which their period of employment is converted to indeterminate in their substantive position under subsection 59(1) of the Act, or

    • (ii) the day on which they request of the deputy head, without good and sufficient reason, that their period of employment continue to be for a specified term despite subsection 59(1) of the Act.

• Marginal note:Additional entitlement period

  (4) A person whose entitlement under subsection (1) ended within the period beginning on April 1, 2022 and ending on March 31, 2025 as a result of the operation of paragraph (3)(a), as that provision read on March 31, 2025, and who is not, on April 1, 2025, already employed in the public service for an indeterminate period is entitled to an additional entitlement period that begins on April 1, 2025 and ends on the earliest of

  • (a) April 1, 2028, and

  • (b) the earliest day on which any of the events referred to in paragraphs (3)(b) to (d) occurs.