Canadian Forces Superannuation Act

Marginal note:Regulations

• 73 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for carrying the purposes and provisions of this Part into effect and, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, may make regulations

  • (a) prescribing the amounts of contributions to be made by participants;

  • (b) prescribing the conditions, manner and time of payment of contributions by participants;

  • (c) prescribing benefits payable for the purposes of subsection 66(1);

  • (d) respecting the manner of and time for making elections under this Part;

  • (e) prescribing the manner and time of naming, changing or revoking beneficiaries under this Part;

  • (f) authorizing a contributor to name his estate as his beneficiary and prescribing classes of persons and organizations from which beneficiaries may be named for the purposes of this Part;

  • (g) authorizing payment, with the approval of the Minister, out of any benefit payable to the survivor, beneficiary or estate or succession of a deceased participant, of reasonable expenses incurred for the maintenance, medical care or burial of the participant;

  • (g.1) respecting the manner of determining the amount referred to in subparagraph 68(1)(b)(i);

  • (h) respecting the rates at which interest is to be credited to the Regular Force Death Benefit Account under paragraph 68(1)(c), the manner in which it shall be calculated and the times at which it shall be credited to the Account;

  • (i) specifying, for the purposes of this Part, the circumstances under which a person’s service in the regular force shall be deemed to be substantially without interruption;

  • (j) respecting the determination, for the purposes of this Part, of the effective date on which a person shall be deemed to have become or to have ceased to be a member of the regular force;

  • (k) prescribing the nature of the evidence required to establish proof of age or marital status for the purposes of this Part, the time within which that evidence shall be provided and the consequences of any failure to provide that evidence within that time; and

  • (l) [Repealed, 1999, c. 34, s. 161]

  • (m) prescribing forms for the purposes of this Part.

• Marginal note:Application of section 36

  (2) Section 36, except subsection (1) thereof, applies, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to this Part.

• Marginal note:No reduction of benefits

  (3) No regulation made under paragraph (1)(a) shall have the effect of reducing the amount of a benefit payable under this Part to an amount less than five thousand dollars in respect of a person who is a participant under this Part when the regulation comes into force and remains a participant after that coming into force.