Public Service Superannuation Regulations

8 (1) Where a person is deemed by subsection 14(1) of the Act to be absent from the Public Service on leave of absence without pay for a specified period, there shall be contributed by or in respect of him to the Superannuation Account and to the Supplementary Retirement Benefits Account in respect of that period such amount as may be fixed by the Treasury Board.

(2) The amount fixed under subsection (1) in respect of the specified period of absence of a person shall apply throughout the period and shall not be less than, or more than double, the amount that the person would otherwise have been required to pay to the Accounts referred to in subsection (1) pursuant to sections 5 and 65 respectively of the Act in respect of that period.

(3) A person to whom subsection (1) applies shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to be receiving, during the specified period referred to in that subsection, salary in such amount as may be fixed by the Treasury Board, which amount shall not be less than the salary he was receiving on the day he was last employed as a deputy head.

(4) The amounts required by subsection (1) to be contributed to the Superannuation Account and the Supplementary Retirement Benefits Account shall be paid by sending them to the Minister at such time and in such manner as the Minister from time to time prescribes.

(5) An election made pursuant to subsection 14(1) of the Act by a person described therein may

• (a) be revoked by him at any time in respect of the payments to be made by him for the balance of the period specified in his election; or

• (b) be suspended by him at any time in respect of the payments to be made for any part of the balance of the period specified in his election.

(6) Any specified period or portion thereof in respect of which a person to whom subsection (1) applies does not contribute as required by this section shall not count as pensionable service for the purposes of Part I of the Act.

(7) An election may not be made pursuant to subsection 14(1) of the Act by a person described therein who has been guilty of misconduct.

(8) Subsection 7.2(4) applies, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to a person to whom subsection (1) applies.