Public Service Superannuation Act

Marginal note:Regulations

• 42.1 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations

  • (a) fixing an annual rate of salary for the purposes of paragraph 5(6)(b) or prescribing the manner of determining the annual rate of salary;

  • (b) prescribing, for the purposes of section 5.1 or 5.2 or paragraph 8(2)(b.1), a number of hours a week less than twelve;

  • (c) prescribing, for the purposes of section 5.1 or 5.2 or paragraph 8(2)(b.1), the manner of calculating the average of the number of hours a week a person is engaged to work, including the period over which the average is to be calculated;

  • (d) specifying the circumstances in which an election may be made under section 5.2 or subsection 5.4(1) or 5.5(1), the period within which such an election may be made, the manner of making the election and the circumstances under which and the terms and conditions on which such an election may be revoked and a new election made or deemed to be made;

  • (e) prescribing the time at which and the manner in which an election may be made under subsection 5.3(1);

  • (f) prescribing, for the purposes of subsection 5.3(4), the portion of the period of leave of absence that is to be counted as pensionable service under clause 6(1)(a)(ii)(A);

  • (g) determining the amount to be paid by a person who makes an election under subsection 5.4(1) or 5.5(1) and prescribing the time at which and manner in which it shall be paid;

  • (h) notwithstanding any regulations made under paragraph 42(1)(d), determining the amount to be paid under paragraph 7(1)(k);

  • (i) determining the amount to be paid by a contributor under subsection 7(1.1);

  • (j) prescribing the time at which and the manner in which an election may be made under subsection 13.1(1) and determining, for the purposes of subsection 13.1(4), the time at which the election is deemed to be revoked;

  • (k) respecting the reduction to be made in the amount of an annuity or annual allowance under subsection 13.1(2);

  • (l) respecting the amount of the immediate annual allowance to be paid to a spouse under subsection 13.1(3);

  • (m) designating, for the purposes of the definition “operational service” in section 24.1, the kind of service and the institution or other premises in which that kind of service is carried out, and specifying the periods of time spent away from operational service that are to be included within the meaning of that definition;

  • (n) prescribing the terms and conditions subject to which a person who ceases to be employed in operational service as defined in section 24.1, but continues to be employed by the Correctional Service of Canada, may irrevocably elect to be deemed to be employed in operational service while that person continues to be employed by the Correctional Service of Canada;

  • (o) respecting the determination of the effective date on which a person shall be deemed to have become or to have ceased to be employed in operational service, as defined in section 24.1;

  • (p) prescribing, for the purposes of sections 24.2 and 24.3 and any regulations made under this subsection, the terms and conditions subject to which any service before, on or after the coming into force of those sections may be counted as operational service, as defined in section 24.1, that is pensionable service;

  • (q) prescribing the circumstances in which and the terms and conditions subject to which a person referred to in section 24.2 is entitled, at the person’s option, to an immediate annuity or annual allowance in respect of operational service that is pensionable service, prescribing the manner of calculating or adjusting that immediate annuity or annual allowance, and prescribing the circumstances in which the person shall be deemed to have exercised the option in favour of either an immediate annuity or annual allowance;

  • (r) fixing the percentage of a person’s salary required to be contributed to the Superannuation Account or the Public Service Pension Fund under subsection 24.4(1) or prescribing the manner of determining that percentage;

  • (s) prescribing classes of persons for the purposes of subsection 24.4(2);

  • (t) requiring the Minister to credit additional amounts to the Superannuation Account or to pay additional amounts into the Public Service Pension Fund in respect of the operational service that is pensionable service to the credit of a person referred to in section 24.2 and prescribing the manner and circumstances in which those amounts are to be credited or paid;

  • (u) respecting the manner in which and extent to which any provision of this Act or any regulations made under this Act apply to any contributor referred to in section 40.1, to any part-time employee or to any person who, immediately before the coming into force of section 11 of An Act to amend certain Acts in relation to pensions and to enact the Special Retirement Arrangements Act and the Pension Benefits Division Act, introduced in the third session of the thirty-fourth Parliament, was deemed by section 14 of this Act, as it read at that time, to be employed in the public service, and adapting any of those provisions for the purposes of that application;

  • (v) respecting the rates at which interest is to be credited to the Superannuation Account under paragraph 44(1)(c), the manner in which it shall be calculated and the times at which it shall be credited to the Account;

  • (v.1) prescribing portions of departments or portions of the executive government of Canada that are to be excluded from the meaning of the expression “public service” as defined in subsection 3(1);

  • (v.2) respecting the terms and conditions under which and the time and manner in which an election may be made in respect of a period of service specified in clause 6(1)(b)(iii)(M) or (N), the manner of determining in accordance with paragraph 7(1)(k) the amounts that are to be paid in respect of that election, the periods of service that may be counted for the purposes of that election, and the manner in which and extent to which section 8 and any regulations referred to in section 8 apply in respect of that election and to any contributor who makes that election and adapting any of those provisions for the purposes of that application;

  • (v.3) respecting the manner in which and the determination of the balances on which interest is to be calculated under subsection 10(9) and respecting the rates of interest for the purposes of paragraph 10(9)(c);

  • (v.4) respecting the manner of determining the amount of a transfer value within the meaning of section 10, the terms and conditions under which a contributor may become entitled to a transfer value and respecting such other matters as the Governor in Council deems necessary for the purposes of carrying out section 13.01;

  • (v.5) respecting the terms and conditions, including the requirement of a person or body referred to in subsection 40.1(1) to pay into the Superannuation Account or the Public Service Pension Fund the amount that is determined in accordance with the regulations for any or all cases, subject to which, and the maximum period during which, the person or body is to form part of the public service pursuant to a direction of the Treasury Board made under subsection 40.1(2);

  • (v.6) prescribing classes of pension plans or retirement savings plans for the purposes of subsection 40.2(1) and respecting the extent to which, and the terms and conditions subject to which, service may be counted as pensionable service pursuant to subsection 40.2(9);

  • (v.7) respecting the manner in which and extent to which any provision of this Act or any regulations made under this Act apply to any employee of an entity or portion of an entity and adapting any of those provisions for the purposes of that application when an order is made under subsection 42(4) or a regulation is made under paragraph (v.1) in respect of that entity, including the manner of determining any amount that may be paid out of the Superannuation Account or the Public Service Pension Fund in respect of those employees and the terms and conditions under which the amount is to be paid;

  • (v.8) respecting the additional information that is required to be included in annual reports referred to in section 46; and

  • (w) generally as the Governor in Council may consider necessary for carrying out and giving effect to any provision of this Act referred to in this subsection.

• Marginal note:Retroactive application of regulations

  (2) Regulations made under paragraph (1)(a), (f), (g), (h), (i), (m), (q), (r), (s), (u) or (v) may, if they so provide, be retroactive and have effect with respect to any period before they are made.