Marginal note:Further divisions precluded

9. Where a division of pension benefits that have accrued to a member of a pension plan during any period is effected under section 8, no further divisions may be made under that section in respect of that period.

Marginal note:Amounts transferred in error

10. If the amount transferred in respect of a spouse, former spouse or former common-law partner or paid to their estate or succession under section 8 exceeds the amount that the spouse, former spouse or former common-law partner was entitled to have transferred or the estate or succession was entitled to be paid, the amount in excess constitutes a debt due to Her Majesty in right of Canada by that spouse, former spouse, former common-law partner, estate or succession.

Marginal note:Amounts paid before adjustment

11. Where an adjustment is made under paragraph 8(1)(b) and an amount is or has been paid to a member of a pension plan that exceeds the amount to which that member is or would have been entitled under that pension plan after the effective date of that adjustment, the amount in excess constitutes a debt due to Her Majesty in right of Canada by that member and may be recovered at any time by set-off against any pension benefit that is payable to that member under any pension plan, without prejudice to any other recourse available to Her Majesty in right of Canada with respect to the recovery thereof.

Marginal note:Void transactions

• 12. (1) Amounts that a spouse, former spouse or former common-law partner is or may become entitled to have transferred under section 8 are not capable of being assigned, charged, anticipated or given as security, and any transaction that purports to assign, charge, anticipate or give as security any such amount is void.

• Marginal note:Exemption from attachment, etc.

  (2) Amounts that a spouse, former spouse or former common-law partner is or may become entitled to have transferred under section 8 are exempt from attachment, seizure and execution, either at law or in equity.

Marginal note:Court order

• 13.  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or the provisions of any pension plan or Act under which a pension plan is established or by which a pension plan is provided, where a court in Canada of competent jurisdiction so orders, the Minister shall not, for such period as that court may order, take any action on the direction of a member of a pension plan that may prejudice the ability of the spouse or former spouse or common-law partner or former common-law partner of that member to make an application or obtain a division of pension benefits under this Act.

• Marginal note:Information

  (2) The Minister shall, in accordance with the regulations, on request of a spouse or former spouse or common-law partner or former common-law partner of a member of a pension plan, provide that person with prescribed information concerning the benefits that are or may become payable to or in respect of that member under that pension plan or under Part II of the Public Service Superannuation Act, Part II of the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act, the Public Service Pension Adjustment Act or the Supplementary Retirement Benefits Act.