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An Act to amend the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (S.C. 2003, c. 26)

Assented to 2003-11-07

Marginal note:1999, c. 34, s. 181

60. The portion of section 14 of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

Marginal note:Benefits payable on death

14. On the death of a contributor who was a member of the Force at the time of death, having to his or her credit a period of pensionable service less than the period prescribed by the regulations, the survivor and children of the contributor, in any case where the contributor died leaving a survivor or a child less than eighteen years of age, are entitled jointly to a death benefit equal to

Marginal note:1999, c. 34, s. 189

61. Paragraph 23(a) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • (a) if, on subsequently ceasing to be a member of the Force, he or she is not entitled under this Part to any benefit other than a return of contributions, the amount returned shall not include any amount paid into the Superannuation Account or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Fund to his or her credit at any time before the time of his or her re-appointment to or re-enlistment in the Force, and whatever right or claim that, but for this section, he or she would have had to the original annuity on subsequently ceasing to be a member of the Force shall then be restored to him or her; and

Marginal note:1999, c. 34, s. 194(2)

  • 62. (1) Paragraph 26.1(1)(c.2) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (c.2) respecting the manner of determining the amount of a transfer value within the meaning of subsection 9(1), the terms and conditions under which a contributor may become entitled to a transfer value and any other matters that the Governor in Council considers necessary for the purposes of carrying out section 12.1;

  • Marginal note:1999, c. 34, s. 194(3)

    (2) Paragraph 26.1(1)(h.2) of the Act is replaced by the following:

    • (h.2) prescribing periods of service in the Force and periods of pensionable service for the purposes of sections 11, 12.1, 13 and 14, these periods being in no case shorter than two years or longer than, in the case of paragraphs 11(7)(a) and 11(8)(a) and sections 13 and 14, five years, in the case of paragraphs 11(1)(a), 11(2)(a), 11(3)(a) and 11(5)(a), subparagraph 11(9)(b)(iii), subsection 11(11) and section 12.1, ten years, in the case of paragraphs 11(3)(c) and 11(5)(c), twenty years, in the case of paragraph 11(5)(d) and subparagraph 11(9)(b)(ii), twenty-five years, in the case of paragraph 11(9)(a) and clause 11(9)(b)(iii)(B), thirty years, and in the case of subsection 11(12), thirty-five years;

Marginal note:1992, c. 46, s. 80

63. The portion of subsection 39(5) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Minimum guaranteed amount

    (5) Despite subsections (1), (2) and (4) but subject to section 40, the amount of the supplementary benefit that may be paid for a month in any year to a recipient shall not be less than an amount equal to the difference obtained by subtracting the amount of the pension that may be paid to the recipient for that month in that year from the aggregate of the supplementary benefit and the maximum pension that would have been payable to that recipient for that month in that year, otherwise than pursuant to this section, if the retirement month of the retirement year of the recipient had been that month in such year as is determined by