Marginal note:Adjudication

32.2 All claims for awards under this Part shall be dealt with and adjudicated on in like manner as claims under the Pension Act, and all provisions of that Act not inconsistent with this Part apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to any claim under this Part.

Marginal note:Payment of treatment allowance

• 33. (1) Where a former member of the Force who is in receipt of a pension under this Part, under subsection 22(1) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act, chapter 241 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1952, as that subsection read before April 1, 1960, or under subsection 5(1) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Continuation Act, chapter R-10 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1970, by reason of his having become disabled is receiving treatment as an in-patient under regulations made pursuant to the Department of Veterans Affairs Act for the disability in respect of which his pension was awarded or granted, he may be paid a treatment allowance that, in the opinion of the Treasury Board, would be equivalent to the treatment allowance that would be payable to him under those regulations if he were a veteran to whom those regulations applied, and during the time the treatment allowance is being paid to him section 41 of the Pension Act shall apply with such modifications as the circumstances require to his pension.

• (2) [Repealed, 1998, c. 11, s. 3]

Marginal note:Application of Government Employees Compensation Act

• 34. (1) Notwithstanding subsection 3(1) of the Government Employees Compensation Act, that Act applies to every member of the Force, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act, except a person or member described in section 32 or 32.1 of this Act.

• (2) [Repealed, 2009, c. 13, s. 11]

Marginal note:Definitions

35. In this Part,

“contributor”

“contributor”[Repealed, 1999, c. 34, s. 201]

“pension”

« pension »

“pension” means any pension, annual allowance or annuity payable under Part I;

“recipient”

« prestataire »

“recipient” means

• (a) a person who is in receipt of a pension and who has reached sixty years of age,

• (b) a person who is in receipt of a pension and who, not having reached sixty years of age, is disabled,

• (c) a person who, not having reached sixty years of age, is in receipt of a pension under subsection 11(9) or (10),

• (d) a person who, not having reached sixty years of age, is in receipt of a pension as a result of having been compulsorily retired from the Force by reason of any mental or physical condition rendering the person disabled,

• (e) a person who, not having reached sixty years of age, is in receipt of a pension based on not less than

  • (i) twenty-six years of pensionable service, in the case of a person who has reached fifty-nine years of age but has not reached sixty years of age,

  • (ii) twenty-seven years of pensionable service, in the case of a person who has reached fifty-eight years of age but has not reached fifty-nine years of age,

  • (iii) twenty-eight years of pensionable service, in the case of a person who has reached fifty-seven years of age but has not reached fifty-eight years of age,

  • (iv) twenty-nine years of pensionable service, in the case of a person who has reached fifty-six years of age but has not reached fifty-seven years of age, or

  • (v) thirty years of pensionable service, in the case of a person who has reached fifty-five years of age but has not reached fifty-six years of age, or

• (f) a person who is in receipt of the pension by reason of being a survivor or a child.