Former Members of Parliament Counting of Service Regulations (SOR/2016-76)

Marginal note:Form of election

• 2 (1) The contributor must make the election referred to in section 1 in writing and must sign and date the document.

• Marginal note:Day of election

  (2) The election is made on the day on which the document is signed.

• Marginal note:Sending

  (3) The contributor must send the document to the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police within one month after the day on which it is signed.

• Marginal note:Sending date

  (4) The document is sent on the day on which it is delivered or, if it is sent by mail, the day on which it is mailed, with the date of the postmark being evidence of that day.

• Marginal note:Contributor no longer member of the Force

  (5) Despite subsection 1(2), a contributor who is no longer a member of the Force who received, from an authorized advisor who normally gives information about these matters, erroneous or misleading information in respect of an election and who did not make the election while they were a member, may make the election within one year after the day on which the advisor sent them the corrected information or, if it is later, within one year after the day on which these Regulations come into force.

• Marginal note:Revocation of election

  (6) The contributor may revoke the election if they received, from an authorized advisor who normally gives information about these matters, erroneous or misleading information in respect of the election and

  • (a) failed to make the election and then made it within one year after the day on which the advisor sent them the corrected information or, if it is later, within one year after the day on which these Regulations came into force, and while they were a member of the Force; or

  • (b) failed to make the election while they were a member of the Force and then made it after having received the corrected information from an authorized advisor and having ceased to be a member.

• Marginal note:Same election

  (7) A contributor who revokes the election is deemed to have made the same election on the day after the day on which they received the erroneous or misleading information.

• Authorized advisor

  (8) For the purposes of this section, authorized advisor has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Regulations.