Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pension Continuation Act — R-10.6 47
Minimum contribution 47 (1) For the purpose of providing the cost of benefits payable under this Part, every person to whom this Part applies shall contribute, by deduction out of his pay, five per cent of the stated rate of pay of his rank. Leave of absence (2) In any month in which, due to leave of absence or any other cause, the actual pay of any such person is not at least equal to the contributions to be deducted out of his pay in that month under the provisions of this and the following sections, then no part of the contributions for that month shall be deducted out of his pay, if any, but he may nevertheless pay into the Consolidated Revenue Fund the full contributions required for that month and if paid after the due date he shall include interest for the period of the delay in payment at the rate of four per cent per annum. Optional supplementary contribution (3) Every such person may at any time authorize a supplementary deduction to be made from his pay in accordance with the following table: Age, last preceding birthday, on commencement of supplementary contribution Supplementary contribution per month 20 years and under $ 0.68 21 0.75 22 0.82 23 0.89 24 0.96 25 1.03 26 1.10 27 1.17 28 1.25 29 1.33 30 1.41 31 1.49 32 1.57 33 1.65 34 1.73 35 1.82 36 1.91 37 2.01 38 2.11 39 2.21 40 2.31 41 2.42 42 2.53 43 2.65 44 2.77 45 2.89 Contributions to be applied to purchase benefits (4) The contributions from time to time so made by every such person, as well as any other contributions made under this Part, shall in effect be used as and when made to purchase benefits to become payable consequent on the death of such person, whenever death may occur, to or in respect of his widow or children if survived by a widow or children and to or in respect of his children and other dependants if such person is not survived by a widow. Bases of purchase (5) The benefits mentioned in subsection (4) shall be as defined and described in section 48, and the said contributions shall be applied in accordance with that section and the schedule to this Part to purchase the said benefits. Election to contribute (6) Subject to subsection (7) any constable on the Force on the 1st day of October 1934 who does not elect within eight months to contribute under subsection (1) shall not thereafter become subject to this Part unless the Commissioner is satisfied that the health of such constable is such as would be satisfactory for enlistment in the Force. Extension of time (7) If due to remoteness of location or difficulties of communication any constable, in the opinion of the Commissioner, may not have had a reasonable opportunity within the eight months period of electing to so contribute, the Commissioner may extend the period of election of such constable for such period as the Commissioner may deem reasonable. Child (8) For the purposes of this and the following sections, child means a child of a person to whom this Part applies, including a stepchild and an adopted child, who (a) is less than twenty-one years of age; or (b) is twenty-one or more years of age but less than twenty-five years of age, and is in full-time attendance at a school or university, having been in such attendance substantially without interruption since the child reached twenty-one years of age or the person to whom this Part applies died, whichever occurred later. R.S., 1970, c. R-10, s. 47; 1974-75-76, c. 81, s. 69; 1989, c. 6, s. 23