Canadian Forces Superannuation Act

Marginal note:Service Pension Board

• 49 (1) The Minister shall appoint a board, to be known as the Service Pension Board, consisting of a chairman and two other members, one to represent the Canadian Forces and one to represent the Minister.

• Marginal note:Duty of Board

  (2) It is the duty of the Service Pension Board to determine, in the case of any contributor who is retired from the regular force, the reason for the retirement, and the Board shall, on the making of the determination, certify in writing the reason for that retirement as determined by the Board.

• Marginal note:Certification of reason for retirement

  (3) No payment shall be made of any annuity or other benefit under this Act to a contributor who is retired from the regular force except on certification in writing by the Service Pension Board of the reason for the retirement as determined by the Board, and on the certification thereof the contributor shall be presumed, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, to have been retired from the regular force for that reason.

• Marginal note:Application of subsections (2) and (3)

  (4) Subsections (2) and (3) do not apply to any case or class of cases specified by the Treasury Board.

• Marginal note:Limitation on application

  (5) This section does not apply in the case of a contributor who ceases to be a member of the regular force after the coming into force of this subsection.