Canada Pension Plan

Marginal note:Definition of “included province”

• 114 (1) In this section, included province means a province other than the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories or Nunavut, except a province providing a comprehensive pension plan unless at the time in respect of which the description is relevant there is in force an agreement entered into under subsection 4(3) with the government of that province.

• Marginal note:Effective date of major amendments

  (2) Where any enactment of Parliament contains any provision that alters, or the effect of which is to alter, either directly or indirectly and either immediately or in the future, the general level of benefits provided by this Act or the contribution rate for employees, employers or self-employed persons for any year, it shall be deemed to be a term of that enactment, whether or not it is expressly stated in the enactment, that the provision shall come into force only on a day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council, which day shall not in any case be earlier than the first day of the third year following the year in which any notice of intention to introduce a measure containing a provision to that effect was laid before Parliament.

• Marginal note:Notice

  (3) A notice of intention described in subsection (2) shall be in such form as is sufficient to indicate the nature of the provision contained or proposed to be contained in the measure referred to in subsection (2) to the effect described in that subsection, and on any such notice being laid before Parliament the Minister shall forthwith cause a copy thereof to be sent to the lieutenant governor in council of each included province.

• Marginal note:Coming into force of other amendments of substance

  (4) Where any enactment of Parliament contains any provision that alters, or the effect of which is to alter, either directly or indirectly and either immediately or in the future,

  • (a) the general level of benefits provided by this Act,

  • (b) the classes of benefits provided by this Act,

  • (c) the contribution rate for employees, employers or self-employed persons for any year,

  • (d) the formulae for calculating the contributions and benefits payable under this Act,

  • (e) the management or operation of the Canada Pension Plan Account or the Canada Pension Plan Investment Fund, or

  • (f) the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act,

  it shall be deemed to be a term of that enactment, whether or not it is expressly stated in the enactment, that the provision shall come into force only on a day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council, which order may not be made and shall not in any case have any force or effect unless the lieutenant governor in council of each of at least two thirds of the included provinces, having in the aggregate not less than two thirds of the population of all of the included provinces, has signified the consent of that province to the enactment.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (4.1) Subsections (2) and (4) do not apply in respect of changes under subsection 113.1(11) to benefits or contribution rates.

• Marginal note:Determination of population

  (5) For the purposes of this section, the population of a province at any time in a year in respect of which the determination thereof is relevant means the population thereof on June 1 of that year, as estimated by the Chief Statistician of Canada.