Defence Services Pension Continuation Regulations (C.R.C., c. 554)

10 (1) Subject to subsections (4) and (5), a pensioner who was granted a pension as an officer and who is absent from duty for any purpose including absence on leave without pay and allowances, or secondment where he performs continuous full-time service or employment and receives emoluments by way of pay and allowances, salary or otherwise for that service or employment, shall contribute to the Consolidated Revenue Fund, in respect of any period during which he is so absent, by making payments in accordance with subsection (2) and that period shall be counted as service for the purposes of section 9 as being augmenting service.

(2) The contributions required to be paid by a pensioner to whom subsection (1) applies shall be payable

• (a) where the period does not exceed 92 days, monthly by means of a debit to his pay account, or

• (b) where the period exceeds 92 days, by monthly remittances in favour of the Receiver General.

(3) When any amount payable under this section by a pensioner who was granted a pension as an officer is unpaid at the time of his retirement, that amount shall be reserved out of any pension that is payable under the Act to the pensioner by reservation out of any pension in equal instalments for a period equal to that period during which no contributions were made by him as required.

(4) A continuous period of absence from duty in excess of 60 days in respect of a pensioner, whether granted a pension as an officer or militiaman, where

• (a) a forfeiture of pay and allowances is imposed,

• (b) a deduction in an amount equal to the whole of the pay and allowances withheld is imposed by reason of suspension from duty,

• (c) a continuous combination of periods described in paragraphs (a) and (b), or

• (d) he is on leave without pay and allowances,

shall not be counted as augmenting service and no contributions shall be required in respect of that period, but such period shall not break the continuity of augmenting service.

(5) A pensioner who was granted a pension as an officer and who has been absent from duty may elect within 30 days of the expiration of his absence from duty not to contribute in respect of that absence, in which case that period of absence shall not be counted as augmenting service and no contributions shall be required under this section in respect of that period.