Public Service Superannuation Act

Marginal note:Ineligibility

• 62 (1) Notwithstanding anything in this Part, the expression “participant” does not include

  • (a) a person employed in the public service on July 1, 1954, or

  • (b) a person who is a member of the regular force on July 1, 1954,

  if that person, on or before November 1, 1954, in such manner and form as the regulations prescribe, has elected not to come under this Part.

• Marginal note:Election irrevocable

  (2) An election made under this section is irrevocable.

• Marginal note:Application

  (3) Subsection (1) applies only to a person described therein who

  • (a) on August 14, 1956 was employed in the public service or was a member of the regular force and has thereafter continued to be so employed or to be such a member substantially without interruption; or

  • (b) on August 14, 1956 was not employed in the public service and was not a member of the regular force, but since the time when he last ceased to be so employed or to be such a member prior to August 14, 1956 he continued to be employed in the public service or to be a member of the regular force substantially without interruption.

• Marginal note:Election deemed valid

  (4) Where a person who

  • (a) was employed in the public service on July 1, 1954, and

  • (b) had not, before April 1, 1965, made any contributions under section 53

  made an election under subsection (1) in purported compliance therewith that was invalid by reason only that the person was not, on July 1, 1954, a participant within the meaning of this Part, that election shall be deemed to have been made validly under and in accordance with subsection (1).