Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act

Marginal note:Definitions

• 3 (1) In this Part and Part III,

  active service

  activité de service

  active service means any service of a kind specified in the regulations to be active service, which service is deemed for the purposes of this Part to have terminated on discharge or, in the case of a person who underwent treatment in a veterans' hospital, as defined in the regulations, immediately following his discharge, on his release from that hospital; (activité de service)

  child

  enfant

  child means a child or stepchild of — or an individual adopted either legally or in fact by — a contributor, who at the time of the contributor’s death was dependent on the contributor for support; (enfant)

  contributor

  contributeur

  contributor means a person who is required by section 5 to contribute to the Superannuation Account or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Fund, and includes, unless the context otherwise requires,

  • (a) a person who has ceased to be so required to contribute to the Superannuation Account or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Fund, and

  • (b) for the purposes of sections 15 to 19 and 22, a contributor under Part V of the former Act who has been granted a pension or annual allowance under that Act or has died; (contributeur)

  disabled

  invalide

  disabled, as applied to any member of the Force, has reference to any condition rendering him incapable of performing his duties as a member of the Force, and, for the purposes of section 12 as applied to any person, has reference to any condition rendering him incapable ordinarily of pursuing any substantially gainful occupation; (invalide)

  Force

  Gendarmerie

  Force means the Royal Canadian Mounted Police; (Gendarmerie)

  former Act

  ancienne loi

  former Act means the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act, chapter 241 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1952, as it read before April 1, 1960, and includes, unless the context otherwise requires, any other Act of Parliament providing for the payment of pensions to members of the Force based on length of service, other than this Act; (ancienne loi)

  member of the Force

  membre de la Gendarmerie

  member of the Force means a member of the Force, as defined in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act, holding a rank in the Force, and any other member of the Force, as defined therein, of a class designated in accordance with the regulations for the purposes of this Part; (membre de la Gendarmerie)

  Minister

  ministre

  Minister means the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness; (ministre)

  officer

  officier

  officer means a commissioned officer of the Force; (officier)

  pay

  solde

  pay means,

  • (a) as applied to the Force, the pay of the substantive rank held by the person in respect of whom the expression is being applied, not including the pay of acting rank or extra pay for staff or similar temporary appointments, or, in the case of a person not holding a rank in the Force, the salary or other remuneration for the performance of the regular duties of that person as a member of the Force, together with such allowances by way of compensation or otherwise as are prescribed by the regulations, and

  • (b) as applied to the public service or the Canadian Forces, the salary or pay and allowances, as the case may be, applicable in the case of that person, as determined under the Public Service Superannuation Act or the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act; (solde)

  provincial pension plan

  régime provincial de pensions

  provincial pension plan has the same meaning as in the Canada Pension Plan; (régime provincial de pensions)

  public service

  fonction publique

  public service has the same meaning as in subsection 3(1) of the Public Service Superannuation Act; (fonction publique)

  regular force

  force régulière

  regular force means the regular force of the Canadian Forces and includes

  • (a) the forces known before February 1, 1968 as the regular forces of the Canadian Forces, and

  • (b) the forces known before February 1, 1968 as the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army Active Force, the Permanent Active Militia, the Permanent Militia Corps, the permanent staff of the Militia, the Royal Canadian Air Force (Regular) and the Permanent Active Air Force; (force régulière)

  retirement age

  âge de retraite

  retirement age, as applied to any rank or class of contributor, means such age as is fixed by the regulations as the retirement age applicable to that rank or class; (âge de retraite)

  Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Fund

  Caisse de retraite de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada

  Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Fund means the fund established under section 29.2; (Caisse de retraite de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada)

  Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Investment Fund

  Fonds de placement du compte de pension de retraite de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada

  Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Investment Fund means the fund established under section 29.1; (Fonds de placement du compte de pension de retraite de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada)

  service in the Force

  service dans la Gendarmerie

  service in the Force includes any period of service as a special constable of the Force before April 1, 1960, or any period of service as a member of a provincial or municipal police force, that, in accordance with the regulations, may be counted as service in the Force for the purposes of this Part; (service dans la Gendarmerie)

  Superannuation Account

  compte de pension de retraite

  Superannuation Account means the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Account referred to in section 4; (compte de pension de retraite)

  supplementary benefit

  prestation supplémentaire

  supplementary benefit means a supplementary benefit payable under Part III; (prestation supplémentaire)

  survivor

  survivant

  survivor, in relation to a contributor, means

  • (a) a person who was married to the contributor at the time of the contributor’s death, or

  • (b) a person referred to in subsection 18(1); (survivant)

  World War I

  Première Guerre mondiale

  World War I means the war that was declared on August 4, 1914 and that is deemed, for the purposes of this Part, to have terminated on August 31, 1921; (Première Guerre mondiale)

  World War II

  Seconde Guerre mondiale

  World War II means the war that was declared on September 10, 1939 and that is deemed, for the purposes of this Part, to have terminated on September 30, 1947. (Seconde Guerre mondiale)

• Marginal note:References to Canadian Forces Superannuation Act

  (2) A reference in this Part to the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act shall be construed as including a reference to any other Act of Parliament in force either before or after April 1, 1960 providing for the payment of pensions to members of the Canadian Forces based on length of service.

• Marginal note:Persons employed under Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act

  (3) For the purposes of this Part, the Public Service Superannuation Act and the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act, a person who is employed under the authority of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act but who is not a member of the Force shall be deemed to be employed in the public service, and any period of service of a person during which he was employed under the authority of that Act but was not a member of the Force or during which he was a person to whom Part VII of the former Act applied shall be deemed to be a period of service during which he was employed in the public service.

• Marginal note:Pensionable employment

  (4) Except as provided in the regulations, employment as a member of the Force is not excepted employment for the purposes of the Canada Pension Plan.