Optional Survivor Annuity Regulations (SOR/2001-283)

Election Ceases to Have Effect

• 13 (1) An election ceases to have effect on the day on which the first of the following events occurs:

  • (a) in the case of an election in respect of a spouse

    • (i) the spouse dies,

    • (ii) the annulment of the marriage of the judge and the spouse takes effect, or

    • (iii) the divorce between the judge and the spouse takes effect; and

  • (b) in the case of an election in respect of a common-law partner

    • (i) the common-law partner dies,

    • (ii) a notice is sent by the judge to the Annuity Administrator indicating that the cohabitation in a conjugal relationship between the judge and common-law partner has ended, or

    • (iii) the judge marries or begins to cohabit in a conjugal relationship with a person other than the common-law partner.

• (2) The reduction is discontinued beginning on the day on which the election ceases to have effect.

Coming into Force

Footnote ^*14 These Regulations come into force on the day on which section 24 of An Act to amend the Judges Act and to amend another Act in consequence, being chapter 7 of the Statutes of Canada, 2001, comes into force.

• Return to footnote ^*[Note: Regulations in force August 1, 2001, see SI/2001-85 and 2006, c. 11, s. 36.]