7. The contributions required to be paid by a participant who is referred to in section 47.1 of the Act, or who is absent from duty without pay for the purpose of serving

• (a) with an international organization,

• (b) with the government of a country other than Canada,

• (c) as a full-time paid official of a public service employee organization,

• (d) as a full-time paid official of a credit union, or

• (e) outside of the Public Service with a commission established under Part I of the Inquiries Act or with any board or agency that is an agent of Her Majesty in right of Canada,

shall be paid by sending them to the Minister annually, quarterly or in a lump sum in advance, at the option of the participant.

7.1 Where an amount payable by a contributor under section 4 is unpaid at the time the contributor ceases to be employed in the Public Service, the amount shall be deducted from any benefit that is or will become payable under the Act to the contributor

• (a) where the benefit is an annuity or annual allowance,

  • (i) by reservation from the monthly instalments of the annuity or annual allowance of an amount equal to the amount of any instalment otherwise payable by the contributor under section 6 or 30 per cent of the gross monthly annuity or annual allowance, whichever is the lesser, or

  • (ii) in a lump sum, if the contributor so elects, at the time the annuity or annual allowance becomes payable; and

• (b) in any other case, in a lump sum, at the time the benefit becomes payable.

8. The contributions required to be paid by a participant who is a seasonal employee or a sessional employee in respect of the period during which he is not on duty in the Public Service shall be paid at the time and in the manner that contributions would be payable under section 6 if he were, during that period, a participant described in that section.

• 9. (1) Where a participant employed in a position on a full-time basis is, due to the granting of educational leave or the seasonal nature of his employment, engaged other than on a full-time basis for any period during a year or during an entire year, and during such period or during the entire year receives a portion of the normal pay for employment on a full-time basis in that position, he shall be deemed during such period or year

  • (a) to have been employed on a full-time basis; and

  • (b) to have been in receipt of such salary as he would have received had he in fact been engaged on a full-time basis during such period or year.

• (2) The contributions required to be paid by a participant described in subsection (1) shall be paid at the same time and in the same manner as if he were a participant described in section 6.