Supplementary Death Benefit Regulations

21 (1) A participant who is a sessional employee is deemed, for the purposes of Part II of the Act, to have ceased to be employed in the public service on the first day of the session of Parliament immediately following the session in which they were actively employed unless

• (a) they return to duty within 10 days after that day; or

• (b) the Speaker of the House of Parliament in which they are or were employed advises the Minister in writing that the participant will cease or has ceased to be employed on a day earlier than that first day.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a sessional employee in respect of a special or emergency session of Parliament at which the employee is not required to perform any services.