Bill C-23

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	Transitional Provisions
Limitation	*338. Notwithstanding anything in the War Veterans Allowance Act, no payment shall be made under that Act, for any period before the coming into force of this section, to or in respect of*
	(a) a common-law partner of a veteran if the common-law partner was, immediately before the coming into force of this section, a person to whom paragraph 2(3)(a) of the War Veterans Allowance Act, as it then read, could not have applied; or
	(b) a surviving common-law partner of a veteran if the surviving common-law partner was, immediately before the coming into force of this section, a person to whom paragraph 2(3)(b) of the War Veterans Allowance Act, as it then read, could not have applied.
Limitation	*339. Subsection 5(1) of the War Veterans Allowance Act, as amended by paragraph 332(b) of this Act, does not apply in respect of a surviving common-law partner of a veteran if*
	(a) the death of the veteran occurred before the coming into force of this section; and
	*(b) the surviving common-law partner was a person to whom paragraph 2(3)(b) of the War Veterans Allowance Act, as it then read, could not have applied.*
	COMING INTO FORCE
	340. (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (4), the provisions of this Act, other than sections 40, 76 and 77, and the provisions of any Act as enacted by this Act, come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.
	*(2) Subsection 59(2) comes into force immediately after the coming into force of section 84 of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act, chapter 40 of the Statutes of Canada, 1997.*
	(3) Sections 111 to 113 come into force on January 1, 2001.
	(4) Section 120 comes into force on the day on which subsection 276(2) comes into force.