Supplementary Death Benefit Regulations

19 (1) For the purposes of Part II of the Act, the salary that is or was authorized to be paid to a person employed in the public service at a rate other than an annual rate is to be computed in terms of an annual rate by multiplying the rate of pay that they are or were paid

• (a) in the case of an hourly rate, by the aggregate of

  • (i) the number of hours in a standard work week multiplied by 52, and

  • (ii) the number of hours in a standard work week divided by the number of days in a standard work week;

• (b) in the case of a daily rate, by the aggregate of

  • (i) the number of days in a standard work week multiplied by 52, and

  • (ii) one day;

• (c) in the case of a weekly rate, by 52; or

• (d) in the case of a monthly rate, by 12.

(2) For the purposes of this section, the number of hours or days in a person’s standard work week is the number of hours or days that the person is or was, as the case may be, ordinarily required to work during such a work week.