Public Service Superannuation Act

Marginal note:Contributors with two or more years of pensionable service

• 13 (1) The following provisions are applicable in respect of any contributor who has to the contributor’s credit two or more years of pensionable service:

  • (a) if the contributor ceases to be employed in the Public Service, having reached sixty years of age, the contributor is entitled to an immediate annuity;

  • (b) if the contributor ceases to be employed in the Public Service, not having reached sixty years of age, by reason of having become disabled, the contributor is entitled to an immediate annuity;

  • (c) if he or she ceases to be employed in the Public Service, not having reached sixty years of age, for any reason other than disability, he or she is entitled to,

    • (i) if at the time he or she ceases to be so employed he or she has reached fifty-five years of age and has to his or her credit not less than thirty years of pensionable service, an immediate annuity, or

    • (ii) in any other case, at his or her option

      • (A) a deferred annuity,

      • (B) if at the time he or she ceases to be so employed he or she has reached fifty years of age and has to his or her credit not less than twenty-five years of pensionable service, an annual allowance, payable immediately on his or her exercising his or her option, equal to the amount of the deferred annuity referred to in clause (A) reduced by the product obtained by multiplying five per cent of the amount of that annuity by

        • (I) fifty-five minus his or her age in years, to the nearest one-tenth of a year, at the time he or she exercises his or her option, or

        • (II) thirty minus the number of years, to the nearest one-tenth of a year, of pensionable service to his or her credit,

        whichever is the greater,

      • (C) if at the time he or she ceases to be so employed he or she has reached fifty-five years of age, has been employed in the Public Service for a period of or for periods totalling at least ten years and does not voluntarily retire from the Public Service, an annual allowance, payable immediately on his or her so ceasing to be employed, equal to the amount of the deferred annuity referred to in clause (A) reduced by the product obtained by multiplying

        • (I) five per cent of the amount of that annuity

        by

        • (II) thirty minus the number of years, to the nearest one-tenth of a year, of pensionable service to his or her credit,

        except that in any such case the whole or any part of the reduction provided for by this clause may be waived by the Treasury Board, or

      • (D) an annual allowance, payable

        • (I) immediately on his or her exercising his or her option, in the case of a contributor fifty or more years of age, or

        • (II) on his or her reaching fifty years of age, in the case of a contributor who exercises his or her option when he or she is less than fifty years of age,

        which allowance shall be equal to the amount of the deferred annuity referred to in clause (A) reduced by the product obtained by multiplying

        • (III) five per cent of the amount of that annuity

        by

        • (IV) sixty minus his or her age in years, to the nearest one-tenth of a year, at the time the allowance becomes payable; and

  • (d) if he becomes disabled, not having reached sixty years of age but having become entitled to

    • (i) a deferred annuity, he ceases to be entitled to that deferred annuity and becomes entitled to an immediate annuity, or

    • (ii) an annual allowance, he ceases to be entitled to that annual allowance and becomes entitled to an immediate annuity, which shall be adjusted in accordance with the regulations to take into account the amount of the annual allowance he has received.

  • (e) [Repealed, 1999, c. 34, s. 65]

• Marginal note:Allowance to survivor and children

  (2) On the death of a contributor who, at the time of death, was entitled under subsection (1) to an immediate annuity or a deferred annuity, or to an annual allowance payable immediately or on reaching fifty years of age, the survivor and children of the contributor are entitled to an annual allowance respectively, as described in paragraphs 12(4)(a) and (b) and subject to the limitations set out in subsections 12(4) and (5).

• Marginal note:Allowance to survivor and children

  (3) On the death of a contributor who was employed in the Public Service at the time of death, having to the contributor’s credit two or more years of pensionable service, the survivor and children of the contributor are entitled to the annual allowances to which they would have been entitled under subsection (2) had the contributor, immediately before the contributor’s death, become entitled under subsection (1) to an immediate annuity or a deferred annuity or an annual allowance payable immediately or on reaching fifty years of age.

• Marginal note:Voluntary retirement of contributor

  (4) Notwithstanding anything in this section, a contributor who voluntarily retires from the Public Service, not having been employed therein substantially without interruption for a period of two years immediately before retirement from the Public Service, is entitled only to a return of contributions.

• Marginal note:Exceptions

  (4.1) Subsection (4) does not apply to a contributor described in paragraph 10(5)(c) or subsection 10(7) or a contributor who has made an election in respect of any period specified in clause 6(1)(b)(iii)(M) or under subsection 39(6) or under any regulations made pursuant to subsection 42(8).

• Marginal note:Calculation of period of service

  (5) For the purposes of subsection (4), in calculating the period during which a contributor has been employed in the Public Service, there shall be included any period of service of the contributor

  • (a) as a member of the regular force or as a member of the Force, or

  • (b) with an approved employer with whom the Minister has entered into an agreement pursuant to section 40 or an eligible employer with whom the Minister has entered into an agreement pursuant to section 40.2, that the contributor is, pursuant to the agreement, entitled to count as pensionable service for the purposes of this Part,

  that is within a period of two years immediately before the contributor’s retirement from the Public Service.

• Marginal note:Where annual allowance to be adjusted

  (6) Where a contributor described in paragraph (1)(c) who was receiving an annual allowance payable under this Part is subsequently re-employed in the Public Service, the amount of any annuity or annual allowance to which that contributor may become entitled under this Part on again ceasing to be employed in the Public Service shall be adjusted in accordance with the regulations to take into account the amount of the annual allowance he has received.

• (7) [Repealed, 1999, c. 34, s. 65]