Canada Pension Plan (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-8)

Marginal note:When pension ceases to be payable

• 70 (1) A disability pension ceases to be payable with the payment

  • (a) for the month in which the beneficiary ceases to be disabled;

  • (b) for the month immediately preceding the month in which the beneficiary commences to receive a retirement pension under this Act or under a provincial pension plan;

  • (c) for the month in which the beneficiary reaches sixty-five years of age; or

  • (d) for the month in which the beneficiary dies.

• Marginal note:Application for retirement pension deemed to have been made

  (2) Where a disability pension ceases to be payable to a person by reason of his having reached sixty-five years of age, an application under section 60 shall be deemed to have been made by and received from that person, in the month in which he reached that age, for a retirement pension to commence with the month following that month.

• Marginal note:Effect of receiving a retirement pension

  (3) A person who commences to receive a retirement pension under this Act or under a provincial pension plan is thereafter ineligible to apply or re-apply, at any time, for a disability pension under this Act, except as provided in section 66.1 or in a substantially similar provision of a provincial pension plan, as the case may be.