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Section 1 - ISSUE AND COMPUTATION OF FINANCIAL BENEFITS
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203.01 - COMMENCEMENT OF PAY AND ALLOWANCES
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(1) (Entitlement to pay) Subject to paragraph
(2), entitlement to pay in accordance with the CBI commences for an officer
or non-commissioned member of the
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(a) Regular Force,
on the date of the member's enrolment in or transfer to the Regular
Force; or
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(b) Reserve Force,
on the date the member commences Class "B" or "C" Reserve Service.
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(2) (No entitlement to pay) An officer on enrolment
in the Regular Force or on transfer from the Reserve Force to the Regular
Force is not entitled to pay for any period prior to the date on which
the officer actually reports for duty.
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(3) (Entitlement to an allowance) Subject to article
203.06
(Computation of Entitlements and Forfeitures on a Daily or Monthly
Basis - Regular Force and Reserve Force on Class "C" Reserve Service)
of the QR&O, entitlement of an officer or non-commissioned member
to an allowance commences on the date the member becomes eligible for
the allowance under the conditions established in the CBI.
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(4) (Effective date of change) Subject to the
CBI, when, because of a change in the qualifying conditions, the rate
of pay or of an allowance in issue to an officer or non-commissioned member
is altered, payment at the new rate shall commence on the day notified
as the effective date of the change. (See CBI 203.09 (Authority to
Adjust Pay Accounts).)
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203.02 - CESSATION OF PAY AND ALLOWANCES
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(1) (Cessation of pay and allowances) Subject
to the CBI, entitlement to pay and allowances ceases at the end of the
day on which, in the case of an officer or non-commissioned member of
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(a) the Regular Force,
the member is released or is transferred from the Regular Force; or
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(b) the Reserve Force,
the member ceases Class "B" or "C" Reserve Service.
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(2) (Effective date of cessation of an allowance)
When an officer or non-commissioned member continues to serve but
entitlement to an allowance ceases, entitlement to the allowance continues
to the end of the day notified as the effective date of cessation. (See
CBI 203.09 (Authority to Adjust Pay Accounts).)
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(For pay of Reserve Force when on Class "A" Reserve
Service, see CBI
204.51 (Pay - Conditions of Payment).)
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203.025 - PAY AND ALLOWANCES - LEAVE WITHOUT PAY
AND ALLOWANCES
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(1) (Entitlement to pay and allowances) Subject
to paragraph (2) and despite CBI 203.01 (Commencement of Pay and Allowances)
and 203.02 (Cessation of Pay and Allowances), when an officer or
non-commissioned member has been granted leave without pay and allowances
(see article 16.25
(Leave Without Pay and Allowances) of the QR&O), the member has
no entitlement to pay or allowances during the period of leave without
pay and allowances.
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(2) (Maternity or Parental Leave) An officer or non-commissioned member who is granted leave without pay and allowances under article 16.26
(Maternity Leave) or 16.27
(Parental Leave) of the QR&O; may be eligible to receive maternity or parental allowances under CBI 205.461 (Maternity and Parental Allowances).
(effective 18 September 2003) Amendment 1
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203.03 - ISSUE OF PAY AND ALLOWANCE
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(1) (Payment) Subject to paragraphs (2), (3) and
(6), pay and allowances shall be issued in arrears to an officer or non-commissioned
member. Payment shall be made on the fifteenth and last days of each month
or on any other day that the Chief of the Defence Staff determines is
required to meet the needs of the Canadian Forces, except that when the
day is not a full banking day, pay and allowances may be issued on the
preceding full banking day.
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(2) (Long leave, posting or temporary duty) When
an officer or non-commissioned member proceeds on long leave, posting
or temporary duty, the member may be paid
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(a) earned pay and
allowances up to and including the date of the commencement of the long
leave or temporary duty, or the effective date of the posting; and
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(b) pay and allowances
in advance, not exceeding one month, for the period of the long leave
or temporary duty or for the period subsequent to the effective date
of the posting.
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(3) (Exceptional circumstances) An officer or
non-commissioned member other than one proceeding on long leave, posting
or temporary duty may, in exceptional circumstances and with the prior
approval of the commanding officer, be paid the earned pay and allowances
at a time other than as prescribed in paragraph (1).
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(4) (Accumulation of credit balances) The accumulation
of credit balances in pay accounts shall not be permitted except when
the Chief of the Defence Staff determines that an accumulation is required
to meet the needs of the Canadian Forces.
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(5) (Deposit) The pay and allowances of an officer
or non-commissioned member shall be deposited to the credit of the member
in a chartered bank, trust company, credit union or other financial institution,
unless this is impractical or unless the member requests otherwise in
writing.
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(6) (Advance of pay and allowances)
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(a) When an officer
or non-commissioned member is granted compassionate leave under article
16.17
(Compassionate Leave) of the QR&O and transportation at public
expense is not authorized under CBI
209.51 (Compassionate Travel Assistance), the member may,
with the approval of their commanding officer, be paid an advance of
unearned pay and allowances in an amount not exceeding the cost of transportation
to and from the place to which the member has been authorized to proceed
on leave.
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(b) When an officer
or non-commissioned member, on enrolment, is required to purchase clothing,
equipment and miscellaneous requirements and the member does not have
sufficient personal funds or earned pay, and with the prior approval
of the commanding officer, the member may be paid an advance of unearned
pay and allowances in an amount not exceeding the cost of the clothing,
equipment and miscellaneous requirements.
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(c) An advance made
to an officer or non-commissioned member under subparagraph (a)
shall be charged to the member's account and shall, except as provided
in subparagraph (e), be recovered in equal monthly instalments
over a period not exceeding six months.
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(d) An advance made to an officer or non-commissioned
member under subparagraph (b) shall be charged to the member's
pay account and shall be recovered within thirty days.
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(e) In exceptional
circumstances, the Chief of the Defence Staff may extend the period
of recovery under subparagraph (c).
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(7) (Service outside Canada) When an officer or
non-commissioned member is serving outside Canada, the issue of pay and
allowances shall be made in the currency determined by the Minister and
concurred in by the Minister of Finance.
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(8) (Restriction of cash payments) Despite anything
contained in this instruction, the Minister may authorize the restriction
of cash payments to officers and non-commissioned members serving outside
Canada. (For advances of pay and allowances when forfeiture or deduction
imposed, see article 208.04
(Advances of Pay and Allowances When Forfeiture or Deduction Imposed)
of the QR&O.)
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203.07
- PAYMENTS ON BEHALF OF PERSONNEL MENTALLY OR PHYSICALLY INCAPACITATED |
(1) (Authorization) Subject to paragraph (2),
when an officer or non-commissioned member who is married or in a common-law
partnership, or who is single and has a dependent child as defined in
CBI 205.015
(Interpretation), is certified by a service medical officer or
a medical officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs to be mentally
or physically incapacitated, the Chief of the Defence Staff may authorize
a monthly payment equal to twenty days pay at the rate established in
the CBI for the rank and status of the member to
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(a) the spouse or
common-law partner; or
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(b) the person or
persons undertaking the care of the dependent child or children.
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(2) (Amount of payment) The amount of the monthly
payment under paragraph (1) shall be reduced by the amount of any pay
allotment made to, or available to, the spouse or common-law partner or
person or persons undertaking the care of the dependent child or children.
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(3) (Comfort costs) When an officer or non-commissioned
member is certified by a service medical officer or a medical officer
of the Department of Veterans Affairs to be mentally or physically incapacitated
and the member is confined to a hospital or other institution, any charge
for comforts supplied to the member from canteens operated by that hospital
or institution shall be paid on the member's behalf.
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(4) (Payment of credit balance) The Chief of the
Defence Staff may authorize payment of any credit balance remaining in
the pay account of a mentally or physically incapacitated officer or non-commissioned
member to the person who, by the law of the province of Canada where the
member is residing during the period of incapacity, is entitled to receive
moneys on behalf of the member.
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(5) (Method of payment) Payments under this instruction
shall be charged to the pay account of the officer or non-commissioned
member concerned but, subject to paragraph (4), may be made only in respect
of the period during which it is certified that the member is mentally
or physically incapacitated.
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203.09 - AUTHORITY TO ADJUST PAY ACCOUNT
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The pay account of an officer or non-commissioned member
shall be adjusted to reflect the commencement and cessation of, or changes
in, entitlements to pay and allowances in accordance with such form of
notification of casualties as is determined by the Chief of the Defence
Staff.
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203.10 - ISSUE OF PAY AND ALLOWANCES TO NON-COMMISSIONED
MEMBERS IN HOSPITAL
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203.10: REPEALED BY THE CDS ON 17 JUNE 2003
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203.11 - PERSONNEL DECEASED OR PRESUMED DEAD
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(1) (Application) This instruction applies to
an officer or non-commissioned member of the
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(a) Regular Force;
or
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(b) Reserve Force
on Class "C" Reserve Service.
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(2) (End of pay and allowances) Subject to paragraph
(4), when it is determined or presumed that an officer or non-commissioned
member has died after the member has been officially reported as missing,
a prisoner of war or interned or detained by a foreign power, pay and
allowances in issue shall be credited to the member's pay account to the
end of the month in which
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(a) notification is received by National Defence
Headquarters that a death certificate has been issued by a civil authority;
or
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(b) a certificate of death or presumption of
death is issued by service authorities.
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(see article 26.20
(Certificates of Death or Presumption of Death) of the QR&O)
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(3) (End of pay and allowances) Subject to paragraph
(2), when an officer or non-commissioned member dies, pay and allowances
in issue shall be credited to the member's account to the end of the month
in which the member's death occurs.
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(4) (Final credit balance) Any final credit balance
in the pay account of the officer or non-commissioned member arising from
the credit of pay and allowances, whether or not the amount or any portion
is in respect of a period following the end of the month of death or presumed
death, accrues to the member's service estate. (See article 25.01
(General) of the QR&O.)
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(5) (Member alive) When an officer or non-commissioned
member officially reported dead or presumed dead is later found to be
alive, the member's account shall be adjusted as though the member had
not been so reported. (See CBI 203.29 (Personnel Reported Missing,
Prisoners of War or Interned or Detained by a Foreign Power).)
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Section 2 - Special Ranks and Categories
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203.21 - OFFICER CADETS - RESERVE FORCE ON OTHER
THAN CLASS "C" RESERVE SERVICE
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REPEALED 1 APRIL 2002
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203.23 - ATTACHMENT OR SECONDMENT OUTSIDE THE CANADIAN
FORCES - PAY AND ALLOWANCES
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(1) (Attachment or secondment) An officer or non-commissioned
member enrolled in the Canadian Forces who is attached or seconded to
another force, department or organization is entitled to pay and allowances
under the CBI for the period of attachment or secondment, unless the member
is authorized by the Minister to receive pay and allowances from that
force, department or organization during the period of attachment or secondment.
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(2) (Recovery for secondment) Pay, allowances
and other costs for a period of secondment shall be recovered, at rates
determined by the Minister, from the force, department or organization
to which an officer or non-commissioned member is seconded.
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203.235 - ATTACHMENT TO THE CANADIAN FORCES - PAY
AND ALLOWANCES
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Except when authorized by the Minister, a person who
is attached to the Canadian Forces, or to a unit or other element, but
who is not enrolled as an officer or non-commissioned member of the Canadian
Forces, is not entitled to pay and allowances under the CBI.
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203.236 - PERSONNEL ATTACHED TO THE CANADIAN FORCES
- EXPENSES AND MISCELLANEOUS ENTITLEMENTS AND GRANTS
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(1) (Personnel attached to the Canadian Forces) Subject
to paragraph (2), chapters 209 (Transportation and Travelling Expenses)
and 210 (Miscellaneous Entitlements and Grants) of the CBI do not
apply to a person attached to the Canadian Forces or any unit or other
element who is not enrolled in the Canadian Forces.
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(2) (Agreement to pay) The relevant provisions
of chapters 209 and 210 of the CBI apply to a person described in paragraph
(1) where, under an agreement between the appropriate authorities of Canada
and another country or organization, Canada is obligated to
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(a) reimburse that
person for any expense mentioned in chapter 209 of the CBI incurred
by that person or their dependants; or
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(b) provide a grant
or other entitlement mentioned in chapter 210 of the CBI in respect
of that person or their dependants.
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203.24 - TEMPORARY OR ACTING RANKs
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(1) (Entitlement to acting pay) An officer or
non-commissioned member who is authorized to hold a temporary rank or
who is granted an acting rank higher than the member's substantive rank
is, unless the temporary or acting rank is to be unpaid, entitled during
the period the member holds the temporary or acting rank to pay and allowances
at the rates and under the conditions established for the substantive
rank equivalent to the temporary or acting rank and that entitlement continues
to the end of the day on which the member reverts to substantive rank.
(See CBI 203.09 (Authority to Adjust Pay Accounts).)
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(2) (Limit) An officer or non-commissioned member
who holds an acting or temporary rank that is to be unpaid is not entitled
to pay and allowances in excess of the pay and allowances established
for the substantive rank held by the member or for any higher temporary
or acting rank for which the member may be paid under paragraph (1).
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203.241
- REVERSION IN RANK AND REMUSTERING |
(1) (Effective date) Subject to paragraph (2),
an officer or non-commissioned member who is reverted in rank or remustered
is entitled to continue to receive the rate of pay and allowances in issue
to the member prior to the member's reversion or remustering until the
end of the day notified as the effective date of the reversion or remustering.
(See CBI 203.09 (Authority to Adjust Pay Accounts) and subsection 204(1)
of the National Defence Act.)
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(2) (Not applicable) Paragraph (1) does not apply
when, by sentence of a service tribunal, a non-commissioned member has
been reduced to a rank for which the member's existing trade group is
not authorized and the member is consequently remustered.
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203.25
- HONORARY RANKS AND APPOINTMENTS |
An officer who holds an honorary rank or appointment
is not entitled to pay, allowances, other financial benefits and expenses
for that honorary rank.
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203.29
- PERSONNEL REPORTED MISSING, PRISONERS OF WAR OR INTERNED OR DETAINED BY
A FOREIGN POWER |
(1) (Application) This instruction applies to
an officer or non-commissioned member of the
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(a) Regular Force,
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(b) Reserve Force
on Class "C" Reserve Service, or
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(c) Reserve Force
on Class "B" Reserve Service,
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who is officially reported missing, a prisoner of war
or interned or detained by a foreign power.
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(2) (Cessation of pay and allowances - Class "B" Reserve
Service) Pay and allowances in issue to an officer or non-commissioned
member described in subparagraph (1)(c) who is reported missing
cease at the end of the day on which the member is so reported, but if
the member is later found to be alive, pay and allowances in respect of
the period the member was missing shall be credited as determined in paragraph
(3). (See CBI
205.73 (Death Gratuity - Reserve Force other than Class "C" Reserve
Service).)
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(3) (Cessation of pay and allowances - others) The
pay account of an officer or non-commissioned member described in subparagraph
(1)(a) or (b) shall be credited with pay, allowances and
expenses in respect of the period the member is missing, a prisoner of
war or interned or detained by a foreign power, as follows:
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(a) pay;
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(b) if in issue to
the member on the date the member is officially reported missing, a
prisoner of war or interned or detained by a foreign power,
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(i) Paratroop Allowance
(see CBI
205.30),
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(ii) Rescue Specialist
Allowance (see CBI
205.31),
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(iii) Aircrew Allowance
(see CBI
205.32),
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(iv) Diving Allowance (see
CBI 205.34),
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(v) Submarine Allowance
(see CBI
205.37),
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(vi) Sea Duty Allowance
(see CBI
205.35),
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(vii) Clothing Upkeep Allowance
(see
CBI 205.54),
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(viii) Separation Expense
(see CBI
209.997),
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(ix) Joint Task Force 2 Allowance (see CBI
205.385),
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(x) Submarine Specialty Allowance (see CBI
205.41), and
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(xi) Special Allowance - CFS Alert (see CBI
205.49),
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to the end of the month in which the official report
is made; and
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(c) if in issue to
the member on the date the member is officially reported missing, a
prisoner of war or interned or detained by a foreign power, and unless
otherwise provided by the Minister in exceptional circumstances,
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(i) Isolation Allowance
(see CBI
205.40),
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(ii) Foreign Service Premium,
Post Differential Allowance and related entitlements under the Military
Foreign Service Regulations (Volume IV of the QR&O, Appendix
4.3),
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(iii) Post Living Differential (see CBI
205.45),
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(iv) Accommodation Assistance Allowance (see CBI
205.43), and
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(v) any other allowance
authorized by the Governor in Council or the Treasury Board in respect
of a place of duty,
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to the end of,
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(A) in the case of an
accompanied member, the day of departure of the member's dependants
from the place or country in respect of which the allowance for
dependants was payable, or
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(B) in the case of an
unaccompanied member, the month in which the member is first so
reported.
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(4) (Credit to pay account) Pay and allowances
credited to the pay account of an officer or non-commissioned member in
accordance with this instruction may be disbursed
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(a) by pay allotments
instituted or adjusted under article 207.05
(Pay Allotments - Personnel Reported Missing, Prisoners of War or
Interned or Detained by a Foreign Power) of the QR&O; or
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(b) on the authority
of the commanding officer, by payment to the spouse or common-law partner
or the person or persons undertaking the care of the member's dependent
child or children,
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(i) of the total pay and
allowances accruing for the complete month in which the official report
is made, and
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(ii) of the allowances
credited under subparagraph (3)(c) until the date of departure
of the member's dependants from the place or country in respect of
which the allowance is payable.
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(5) (Payment to dependants) In exceptional circumstances,
when recommended by a board of officers (see article 207.05
of the QR&O), the Chief of the Defence Staff may authorize payments
to be made from the credit balance in the pay account of the officer or
non-commissioned member to
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(a) the spouse or
common-law partner; or
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(b) the person or
persons undertaking the care of the dependent child or children.
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(6) (Interest accumulated) Interest on any accumulated
balance in the pay account of an officer or non-commissioned member who
is reported missing and who is later found to be alive, or of a member
who becomes a prisoner of war or is interned or detained by a foreign
power, may be allowed at the rates and on the basis determined by the
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