Supplementary Death Benefit Regulations

21 (1) A participant who is a sessional employee shall be deemed to have ceased to be employed in the Public Service on the first day of the session of Parliament immediately following the session in which he was actively employed unless

• (a) within a period of 10 days from that day he returns to duty; or

• (b) the Speaker of the House of Parliament in which he is or was employed advises the Minister in writing that the employee will cease or has ceased to be employed on a day earlier than that first day.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a sessional employee in respect of a special or emergency session of Parliament at which the employee is not required to perform any services.