C-20 - Act to promote good citizenship

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20.1. Where the injury sustained by the rescuer or his death results from an event having occurred before (insert here the date of coming into force of chapter 54 of the statutes of 1993), paragraphs c, e and f of section 1 and sections 2, 3, 8, 20, 21 and 21.1, as they read before being amended, replaced or repealed by sections 197 to 199, 203, 205 and 206 of the Act respecting assistance and compensation for victims of crime (1993, chapter 54), continue to apply to the claimant, subject to the following amendments:
(1)  section 2 is amended by replacing the word “commission” in the second line of the first paragraph by the words “Minister of Justice”;
(2)  section 3 is amended
(a)  by replacing the word “commission” in the first line of the first paragraph by the word “Minister”;
(b)  by adding the words “, subject to section 14 of the Act respecting assistance and compensation for victims of crime” after the word “benefit” in the second line of the second paragraph;
(3)  section 8 is amended by replacing the words “commission shall establish it according to the method it” in the second and third lines by the words “Minister shall establish it according to the method he”;
(4)  section 20 is amended by adding, at the end, the following paragraphs:
“Sections 14 to 17, section 21, Chapter VIII of Title II, with the exception of sections 113 and 121, Chapter IX of that title and sections 140, 143 to 146, 148, 150 to 159 and sections 164 to 169 of the Act respecting assistance and compensation for victims of crime also apply, with any necessary changes.
The provisions of Chapter IX of Title II of that Act relating to decision, review and appeal do not apply to applications for review brought before (insert here the date of coming into force of chapter 54 of the statutes of 1993). Such applications shall be heard, continued, decided and appealed from in accordance with the provisions applicable to them on the date on which they were made.”.
1993, c. 54, s. 204.