C-447
First Session, Forty-first Parliament,
60-61 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-447
An Act respecting the repeal and replacement of the Veterans Review and Appeal Board Act
first reading, October 3, 2012
NOTE
2nd Session, 41st Parliament
This bill was introduced during the First Session of the 41st Parliament. Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons, it is deemed to have been considered and approved at all stages completed at the time of prorogation of the First Session. The number of the bill remains unchanged.
Mr. Stoffer
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SUMMARY
This enactment provides for the repeal and replacement of the Veterans Review and Appeal Board Act.
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1st Session, 41st Parliament,
60-61 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012
house of commons of canada
BILL C-447
An Act respecting the repeal and replacement of the Veterans Review and Appeal Board Act
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Veterans Review and Appeal Board Replacement Act.
Repeal and replacement
2. The Government of Canada must, in consultation with Canadian veterans and veterans’ organizations, develop new legislation to repeal and replace the Veterans Review and Appeal Board Act in order to establish a new and simplified regime that incorporates a medical-evidence-based peer-reviewed process for making decisions regarding veterans’ entitlements under relevant federal statutes and must introduce that legislation in the House of Commons within three years after the day on which this Act comes into force.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons