Supplementary Death Benefit Regulations

23 For the purposes of the definition salary in subsection 47(1) of the Act, the day on which a retroactive increase in salary is deemed to have commenced to have been received by a participant is the first day of the month after the month in which

• (a) the Governor in Council or the Treasury Board, as the case may be, approves that increase; or

• (b) written approval of that increase is duly issued by the appropriate authority, if the approval of the Governor in Council or the Treasury Board is not required.