Supplementary Death Benefit Regulations

11 (1) Subject to section 12, every elective participant, other than an elective participant referred to in subsection 10(1), must contribute to the Consolidated Revenue Fund each year, in advance, for every $2,000 of the basic benefit of the participant

• (a) during any period in which neither an annuity under Part I of the Act or under the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act nor a pension under the Defence Services Pension Continuation Act is being paid to the participant, the amount set out in Part I of Schedule I; and

• (b) during any period in which an annuity or a pension is being paid to the participant under the Part or an Act referred to in paragraph (a), 12 times the amount set out in Part II of Schedule I.

(1.1) and (2) [Repealed, SOR/99-378, s. 3]

(2.1) Subject to section 12, a participant referred to in subsection (1) must pay

• (a) the first contribution on or before the thirtieth day after the day on which the participant ceased or ceases to be employed in the public service; and

• (b) subsequent such contributions each year on or before the thirtieth day after the anniversary of the day on which the participant ceased or ceases to be employed in the public service.

(3) If an elective participant does not pay their annual contribution in accordance with subsection (2.1) because they received erroneous or misleading information as to their obligations under the Act from a person employed in the public service whose ordinary duties include giving advice about the application of the Act, the participant must pay their annual contribution within three months after the day on which they receive a notice with the correct information; however, the due date of each annual contribution after that contribution remains as set out in paragraph (2.1)(b).