Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Regulations

12 (1) Any person to whom subsection 26(5) of chapter 34 of the Statutes of Canada, 1959 applies may make any election, exercise any option or do any other thing specified in subsection 26(8) of that Act, if he has not made the election or exercised the option, at any time within one year from the last day on which that person, but for this subsection, could have made that election or exercised that option whether or not at the time he makes the election or exercised the option he is a member of the Force.

(2) Every election made or every option exercised within the time specified in this section shall be deemed, for the purposes of the Act, to have been made or exercised within the time fixed by the Act for the making of that election or the exercising of that option whether or not the person by whom it was made or exercised was, at the time of its making, a member of the Force.