Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. R-11)

Marginal note:Regulations respecting leave of absence

• 27. (1) For the purposes of this Part, a person who has contributed to the Superannuation Account or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Fund in accordance with any regulation made under paragraph 26(c) in respect of any period during which he or she was absent from the Force on leave of absence without pay shall be deemed to have contributed to the Superannuation Account or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Fund,

  • (a) if that period or a portion of it was before 1966, in the manner and at the rates set forth in subsection 5(1) as it read on December 31, 1965, in respect of that period or portion,

  • (b) if that period or a portion of it was after 1965 and before April 1, 1969, in the manner and at the rates set forth in subsection 5(1) as it read immediately before April 1, 1969 in respect of that period or portion,

  • (c) if that period or a portion of it was after March 31, 1969 and before January 1, 2000, in the manner and at the rates set forth in subsection 5(1), as it reads on December 31, 1999, in respect of that period or portion,

  • (d) if that period or any portion of it was after 1999 but before January 1, 2004, in the manner and at the rates set out in subsection 5(1), as it read on December 31, 2003, in respect of that period or portion,

  • (e) if that period or any portion of it was after 2003 but before January 1, 2013, in the manner and at the rates determined under subsection 5(2), as it read on December 31, 2012, in respect of that period or portion, and

  • (f) if that period or any portion of it was after 2012, in the manner set out in subsection 5(1) and at the rates determined by the Treasury Board under that subsection, in respect of that period or portion,

  and to have received, during that period, pay and allowances at a rate equal to the rate of pay and allowances that would have been authorized to be paid to him or her if he or she had not been so absent on leave of absence without pay.

• Marginal note:Members of Parliament and Senators

  (2) Notwithstanding anything in this Part, the Governor in Council may by regulation

  • (a) provide that the service of a former member of the House of Commons or a former Senator in respect of which he or she made contributions under the Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act may, to the extent and subject to the conditions that may be prescribed by the regulations, be counted by that former member or former Senator as pensionable service for the purposes of this Part; and

  • (b) provide for the transfer to the Superannuation Account or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Fund of amounts in the Retiring Allowances Account, within the meaning of that Act, in respect of him or her.

Marginal note:Payments out of Superannuation Account

• 28. (1) All amounts required for the payment of benefits for which this Part, including the benefits referred to in subsection 26(3) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act, chapter 34 of the Statutes of Canada, 1959, and Part III make provision shall be paid out of the Superannuation Account if the benefits are payable in respect of pensionable service to the credit of a contributor before April 1, 2000.

• Marginal note:Transfer of amounts

  (2) The amounts deposited in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Investment Fund under subsection 29.1(2) shall be transferred to the Public Sector Pension Investment Board within the meaning of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board Act to be dealt with in accordance with that Act.

• Marginal note:Payment of benefits

  (3) If there are insufficient amounts in the Superannuation Account to pay all the benefits referred to in subsection (1), the amounts required for the payment of those benefits shall be charged to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Investment Fund and paid out of the assets of the Public Sector Pension Investment Board.