Reserve Force Pension Plan Regulations

Marginal note:Days of Canadian Forces service

• 42 (1) For the purposes of paragraph 43(1)(a), days of Canadian Forces service are

  • (a) in the regular force, days of service for which pay — excluding allowances provided under the Act — was authorized to be paid and days of leave for maternity or parental purposes granted under the Queen’s Regulations and Orders for the Canadian Forces; and

  • (b) in the reserve force,

    • (i) days of service for which pay — excluding allowances provided under the Act — was authorized to be paid, except that any day of service for which pay was authorized to be paid for a period of duty or training of less than six hours shall be considered to be ½ of a day,

    • (ii) in the proportion determined under subsection (3), days in a period of exemption or leave as referred to in paragraph 2(b), and

    • (iii) in the proportion of ¼ of a day for each day, days in a period before April 1, 1999, where the records of the Canadian Forces or the Department of National Defence permit the verification of the duration of the period but not the number of days of service for which pay — excluding allowances provided under the Act — was authorized to be paid.

• Marginal note:Augmentation

  (2) Each day of service for which pay — excluding allowances provided under the Act — was authorized to be paid during which the member was serving on Class “A” Reserve Service within the meaning of article 9.06 of the Queen’s Regulations and Orders for the Canadian Forces and each day of any similar service shall count as 1 2/5 days of Canadian Forces service.

• Marginal note:Maternity or parental leave

  (3) The proportion in which days in a period of exemption or leave referred to in paragraph 2(b) shall count as days of Canadian Forces service shall be determined by the formula

  A/B

  where

  A

  is the number of the member’s days of Canadian Forces service in the 364 days prior to the period; and

  B

  is the number of days in the 364 days that the member was a member of the Canadian Forces.

• Marginal note:Rounding up

  (4) Any total number of days of Canadian Forces service that includes a fraction shall be rounded to the next higher multiple of a day.