SECTION 10 – RELOCATION EXPENSES FOR A PERSON QUALIFYING AS A DEPENDANT
OR SPECIAL DEPENDANT DURING POSTING |
10.10.01 – INTENT |
The intent of the allowances and benefits in this
section is to assist a member whose status
changes during a member’s posting when the
member marries or enters into a common-law
partnership, is granted guardianship or custody
of a child or has a person designated as a
special dependant.
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10.10.02 – ELIGIBLE MEMBERS |
This section applies to a member who is posted
to a place of duty outside Canada for a period of
twelve months or more.
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10.10.03 – ENTITLEMENT |
(1) (Relocation expenses) If, during the
posting, a person becomes a special dependant
or a dependant through marriage or commonlaw
partnership to a member, including any
accompanying dependent child, or by
guardianship or custody of a child being granted
to a member, that member is entitled to:
(a) actual and reasonable transportation
expenses, including costs of authorized
stopovers, for the new dependant or special
dependant, by the most direct routing from
the location where the person becomes a
dependant or special dependant to the
member's post, not to exceed the cost of
travel by the most direct routing from the
member's previous place of duty to the
member's post; and
(b) actual and reasonable expenses for the
shipment and storage of the furniture and
effects of the dependant or special
dependant, in accordance with paragraphs
(4) and (5):
(i) in the case of a controlled move, up to
the total weight entitlement applicable to
the new number of occupants in the
member’s household, taking into
consideration any initial or subsequent
shipment or storage previously
authorized, or
(ii) for any other move, up to the total
weight entitlement applicable to the
member, taking into consideration any
initial or subsequent shipment or storage
previously authorized.
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(2) (Time limitation) The shipment and storage
of the furniture and effects is to be done
immediately after marriage or after the date of
eligibility, and not less than six months before
the expected termination of the member's
posting.
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(3) (Shipment and storage not authorized)
The shipment and storage of the furniture and
effects will not be authorized if the place of
residence of the dependant or special
dependant is within the geographical area of the
member’s post.
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(4) (Shipment of furniture and effects) The
expenses for the shipment of the furniture and
effects are limited to the actual and reasonable
expenses for packing, crating, cartage,
transportation and unpacking:
(a) from the location where the person
became a dependant or special dependant
or their previous place of residence at the
time of the member's change in status to the
member's post, not to exceed the cost of
shipment of an equivalent weight from the
member’s previous place of duty to the
member’s post; or
(b) from the member's previous place of duty
to the member's post.
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(5) (Storage of furniture and effects) Following
receipt by the Approving Authority of an
inventory prepared by the member, a member is
entitled to payment of storage expenses, for the
furniture and effects of the dependant or special
dependant, not including the packing, crating
and shipping expenses associated with placing
the furniture and effects of the dependant or
special dependant in long-term storage.
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