Public Service Superannuation Regulations

38 (1) For the purposes of paragraphs 12(9)(b) and 12.1(9)(b) of the Act, full-time attendance at a school or university in respect of a child, means full-time attendance at a school, college, university or other educational institution that provides training or instruction of an educational, professional, vocational or technical nature.

(2) A child is deemed to be or to have been in full-time attendance at a school or university substantially without interruption during an absence by reason of a scholastic vacation

• (a) if, after the vacation, they begin or resume full-time attendance at a school or university at the beginning of the next academic year; or

• (b) if, because of any reasonable cause, they cannot begin or resume full-time attendance at a school or university at the beginning of that academic year but they do so begin or resume full-time attendance at a school or university during that academic year or in the next academic year.

(3) A child is deemed to be or to have been in full-time attendance at a school or university substantially without interruption

• (a) during an absence occurring in an academic year because of any reasonable cause, if immediately after the absence they begin or resume full-time attendance at a school or university during that academic year;

• (b) until the end of the academic year during which they are absent because of any reasonable cause if they begin or resume full-time attendance at a school or university in the next academic year;

• (c) until they are 25 years of age

  • (i) if, after an absence because of any reasonable cause occurring in an academic year, they begin or resume, immediately after the absence, full-time attendance at a school or university during that academic year or, if they cannot do so, they begin or resume full-time attendance at a school or university in the next academic year, or

  • (ii) if, after a scholastic vacation, they begin or resume full-time attendance at a school or university at the beginning of the next academic year; and

• (d) until their death, if they die during the academic year in which their absence commenced because of any reasonable cause, or until the end of the academic year in which their absence commenced, if their death occurred after that academic year.