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First Session, Forty-fourth Parliament,
70-71 Elizabeth II, 2021-2022
STATUTES OF CANADA 2022
CHAPTER 2
An Act respecting certain measures related
to COVID-19
ASSENTED TO
MARCH 4, 2022
BILL C-10

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RECOMMENDATION
Her Excellency the Governor General recommends to the House
of Commons the appropriation of public revenue under the cir-
cumstances, in the manner and for the purposes set out in a
measure entitled “An Act respecting certain measures related to
COVID-19”.
SUMMARY
This enactment authorizes the Minister of Health to make pay-
ments of up to $2.5 billion out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund
in relation to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests.
It also authorizes that Minister to transfer COVID-19 tests and in-
struments used in relation to those tests to the provinces and
territories and to bodies and persons in Canada.
Available on the House of Commons website at the following address:
www.ourcommons.ca
2021-2022

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70-71 ELIZABETH II
CHAPTER 2
An Act respecting certain measures related to
COVID-19
[Assented to 4th March, 2022]
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate and House of Commons of Canada,
enacts as follows:
Payments out of C.R.F.
1 The Minister of Health may make payments, the total
of which may not exceed $2.5 billion, out of the Consoli-
dated Revenue Fund for any expenses incurred on or af-
ter January 1, 2022 in relation to coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) tests.
Transfers
2 The Minister of Health may transfer to any province or
territory, or to any body or person in Canada, any coro-
navirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests or instruments
used in relation to those tests acquired by Her Majesty in
right of Canada on or after April 1, 2021.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
2021-2022

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Available on the House of Commons website
Disponible sur le site Web de la Chambre des com