Lieutenant Governors Superannuation Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. L-8)

Marginal note:Residual amounts

9. Where, on the death of a contributor, there is no surviving spouse to whom a pension or return of contributions under this Act may be paid, or where a person who is entitled to a pension under this Act as the surviving spouse of a contributor dies, any amount by which the total amount of the contributions made by the contributor under this Part, together with interest, if any, calculated pursuant to subsection 3(5), exceeds the total amount paid to the contributor and his surviving spouse under this Part shall be paid, as a death benefit, to his estate or, if less than one thousand dollars, as the President of the Treasury Board may direct.

Marginal note:Payments out of C.R.F.

• 10. (1) The pensions and returns of contributions payable under this Act shall be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund.

• Marginal note:Payment of pension

  (2) Where a pension becomes payable under this Act, it shall

  • (a) be paid in equal monthly instalments in arrears;

  • (b) subject to paragraph (c), be paid pro rata for any period of less than a month; and

  • (c) continue, subject to this Act, during the lifetime of the recipient and thereafter until the end of the month in which the recipient dies.

Marginal note:Regulations

11. The Governor in Council may make regulations

• (a) prescribing the terms on which a contributor may pay for any period of service in instalments and the method of determining

  • (i) the amounts to be reserved from any amount payable to a contributor by Her Majesty in right of Canada, including any pension payable to him under this Act, and

  • (ii) the amounts to be recovered from any pension payable to the survivor of a contributor under this Act

  in respect of unpaid instalments;

• (b) prescribing the medical examination to be required to determine whether a contributor is disabled;

• (c) prescribing forms for the purposes of this Act; and

• (d) respecting the election that may be made under section 8.1, including regulations respecting

  • (i) the time, manner and circumstances in which an election may be made, revoked or deemed to have been revoked;

  • (ii) the reduction to be made in the amount of a former Lieutenant Governor’s pension when an election is made;

  • (iii) the amount of the pension to be paid under subsection 8.1(2); and

  • (iv) any other matter that the Governor in Council considers necessary for carrying out the purposes and provisions of section 8.1.