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Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Act

Version of section 64 from 2013-01-01 to 2024-03-06:


Marginal note:Regulations

  •  (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations

    • (a) [Repealed, 2012, c. 22, s. 40]

    • (b) prescribing, for the purposes of any of sections 11, 11.1, 33, 33.1 and 33.2 and subsection 63(2), the rate of interest and the manner of calculating interest;

    • (c) prescribing, in the case of any allowance or other benefit payable under this Act, the days on which the payments of allowances or other benefits shall be made and providing that payment may be made in respect of any part of a period and that, subject to section 58, where a recipient ceases to be entitled to an allowance or other benefit or dies, payment may be made in respect of the full month in which the recipient ceases to be entitled to an allowance or other benefit or dies;

    • (d) providing, where a recipient of any allowance or other benefit payable under this Act is incapable of managing the recipient’s affairs, that the allowance or other benefit may be paid to another person on the recipient’s behalf;

    • (e) [Repealed, 1995, c. 30, s. 25]

    • (f) respecting the manner in which amounts referred to in subsection 56(3) or 57(2) or section 63.1 may be recovered from any allowance or other benefit payable under this Act;

    • (g) providing for the terms and conditions for instalment payments under subsection 57(1) and prescribing the bases as to mortality and interest to be used in establishing the amounts of the payments;

    • (h) respecting, for the purposes of section 21 or 41, the circumstances under which a child to whom that section applies shall be entitled to an allowance under Part I or II;

    • (h.1) respecting the recovery of amounts under subsection 59.1(6) by deduction, lump sum payment, instalment payment or otherwise, including

      • (i) the sending of notices,

      • (ii) the making of elections with respect to the manner of the recovery of amounts or otherwise,

      • (iii) the prescribing of bases as to mortality and interest,

      • (iv) the estimation of amounts and the reconciliation of amounts at the end of a year,

      • (v) the order of the allowances or benefits from which the amounts are recovered, and

      • (vi) the imposition of interest;

    • (i) for the purposes of the definition child in subsection 2(1), providing for the meaning of the expression full-time attendance at a school or university;

    • (j) respecting, for the purposes of the definition child in subsection 2(1), the circumstances under which attendance at a school or university by a child of a member or former member shall be deemed to be substantially without interruption;

    • (k) prescribing, for the purposes of the definition defined benefit limit in subsection 2(1), an amount in respect of the 1995 calendar year and any subsequent calendar year, which amount may be prescribed by reference to the regulations made under the Income Tax Act;

    • (l) prescribing, for the purposes of this Act, the manner of determining a portion of the member’s earnings limit for a year;

    • (l.1) [Repealed, 2003, c. 16, s. 9]

    • (m) respecting the elections that may be made under sections 25, 45 and 49.1, including regulations respecting

      • (i) the time, manner and circumstances in which an election may be made, revoked or deemed to have been revoked,

      • (ii) the reduction to be made in the amount of the allowances of a former member or former Prime Minister, as the case may be, when an election is made,

      • (iii) the amount of the allowance to which the person referred to in subsection 25(3), 45(3) or 49.1(2), as the case may be, is entitled, and

      • (iv) any other matter that the Governor in Council considers necessary for carrying out the purposes and provisions of those sections;

    • (m.1) and (m.2) [Repealed, 2000, c. 12, s. 184]

    • (n) prescribing anything that, by this Act, is to be prescribed; and

    • (o) for any other purpose deemed necessary to give effect to this Act.

  • Marginal note:Retroactive regulations

    (2) Regulations made under subsection (1) may, if they so provide, be retroactive and have effect with respect to any period before they are made.

  • 1992, c. 46, s. 81
  • 1995, c. 30, s. 25
  • 2000, c. 12, s. 184
  • 2001, c. 20, s. 28
  • 2003, c. 16, s. 9
  • 2012, c. 22, s. 40

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